Woman Shot Dead In Queens
Police said a woman was a shot in Queens early Sunday morning.
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Police said a woman was a shot in Queens early Sunday morning.
A remarkable Queens neighborhood that once barred people of color but became the home to many famed African Americans of the 20th century has been designated as an historic district.
Over coffee, tea, and tobacco, the conversation seems to be all about politics and the future and all eyes are the TV screen.
"This Mubarak. He kill his people and Mubarak is like some animals. He love the blood," said one man at a cafe on Steinway Street in Queens.
Police said a man was arrested after making an illegal U-turn in Jamaica, Queens near JFK Airport and officers found nunchucks in his back seat.
A fire broke out in a three-story building on 89th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens early Sunday morning.
Police were on a manhunt for a serial mugger in Queens responsible for at least 10 attacks since the beginning of the year.
Some cabbies said Mayor Bloomberg's proposal of allowing some livery cabs to accept street hails in the outer boroughs would adversely affect them.
A stubborn blaze at a one-story commercial building in Queens took more than 10 hours to bring under control and injured seven firefighters, one seriously.
The trial starts this week for a 29-year-old New York man accused of killing a husband and wife at their Connecticut jewelry store in 2005.
Police are warning women in Jamaica, Queens to be on high alert for a group of robbers they say are targeting older women getting in and out of their cars.
The suspect was described as a white male, approximately 6' to 6'2"' tall, about 35-years-old and around 200 lbs.
A Manhattan lawyer representing some passengers who were stranded on an A train in Queens for seven hours last week says it was a hostile and unsanitary environment.
The location of Seinfeld characters Frank and Estelle Costanza's Queens home was among the many places in the outer-boroughs left buried under snow for days.
Bloomberg called the slow response to clearing snow from city streets "unacceptable." He said he doesn't believe the Sanitation Department dragged out the plowing process, but will launch an investigation.
Streets remain in the city's outer boroughs that still haven't been plowed three days after the tri-state was blasted with a weekend blizzard, and Mayor Bloomberg is admitting the city messed up.
A woman in Queens wants a personal apology, saying the city's flawed response is to blame for her mother's death during Sunday's blizzard.
One side of the street is a snowy mess, but the other is lean and clear. Why the difference? That was the situation on Wednesday in Nassau County's Floral Park and Little Neck, just across the street in Queens.
Police closed off a portion of the Long Island Expressway Wednesday afternoon after a truck skidded off the road and into a snow bank.
Passenger Susan Jutt called CBS 2 Monday morning just after 5:30 a.m. She and approximately 400 other riders had been stuck on a frigid, elevated A train for just over five hours by that time.
Just over 1,000 Con Edison customers remain without power in the New York City
A subway ride home from Kennedy Airport turned into a nightmare for passengers, who were stuck on the train car for nearly 11 hours.
City police say officers shot and killed a man who was armed with a knife. The NYPD says uniformed officers responding to an emergency call were confronted by the man in Queens last night.
Police said 30-year-old Clement Hunter ran a red light and failed to signal while making a right hand turn in Jamaica.
Two City Council members joined business leaders from Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx Sunday to speak out against a proposed 25-cent parking meter hike.
