Crowd Protests Plan To Turn Hotel Into Homeless Shelter In Maspeth, Queens
A massive crowd turned out in Maspeth, Queens Thursday evening, as neighbors refused to see a hotel turned into a homeless shelter.
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A massive crowd turned out in Maspeth, Queens Thursday evening, as neighbors refused to see a hotel turned into a homeless shelter.
The goal of a GoFundMe page was to raise $100,000 in a week in an effort to help find a suspect in the death of Karina Vetrano, but the goal was quickly achieved and has since been doubled.
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According to police, the woman was raped in a rented room at Flower Karaoke on Crocheron Avenue in the Flushing section of Queens at around 2:30 a.m. on July 14.
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It's been just over a week since Phil Vetrano discovered the body of his daughter, Karina Vetrano, in a marshy area in the Spring Creek federal park land near the Belt Parkway in Howard Beach.
A worker was rescued Tuesday morning after falling nearly 15 feet down a trench at a construction site in Queens.
Karina Vetrano, 30, was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted last Tuesday after she left for a run in the Spring Creek federal park land near the Belt Parkway, police said.
Mourners have gathered for Karina Vetrano's funeral at St. Helen Church Saturday, about a mile from where she was killed in Howard
A man was arrested late Friday and charged with luring a 10-year-old girl with special needs into his car in Queens.
Investigators were once again back on the scene Friday at 161st Avenue and 79th Street in Howard Beach searching for evidence in the death of Karina Vetrano.
Many neighbors continued to complain Friday about a plan to turn a Queens hotel into a homeless shelter.
Police said Karina Vetrano was found strangled to death and possibly sexually assaulted on Tuesday. Her body was discovered by her father in a grassy area around 161st Avenue and 78th Street in Howard Beach.
With nearly 60,000 people currently in homeless shelters across the city, officials said they must turn to hotels, like the Holiday Inn located in Maspeth off the Long Island Expressway, as an alternative.
Investigators said 58 people have been scammed by the group of up to eight alleged thieves.
The three suspects allegedly broke into a restaurant supply store in Astoria by cutting a hole in a window, police said.
Firefighters remained on the scene Thursday morning after bringing the fire under control around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday.
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he New York City medical examiner said a 30-year-old jogger whose body was found in marsh land near a bike path in Queens was strangled as police believe she was sexually assaulted.
Four firefighters were injured and taken to the hospital while trying to contain a blaze at the Strawberry Farms grocery store in Whitestone, Queens.
An extra-alarm fire ripped through a grocery store in Whitestone, Queens Tuesday evening.
Zuomin Wang, 60, is charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17, police said.
What started as a really cute marriage proposal idea had a trio of Queens police officers in hot water late Sunday.
At 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the suspect approached a 24-year-old man inside the mezzanine of the Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Ave subway station and beat him with a cane.
Police said the man approached the girl near her home and started talking with her.
