South Jamaica News – QNS

police at scene in Queens where man was shot

AMNY

Queens man shot dead at sports bar; killer at large, cops say

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News

New trash bins installed in District 28 after CM Hankerson partners with DSNY

By Renee DeLorenzo

affordable housing

From defunct hotel to affordable housing: Baisley Pond Park Residences hosts ribbon-cutting in South Jamaica

By Renee DeLorenzo and Ramy Mahmoud

PAPD officers safely captured a horse after it broke free from Curly's Cowboy Center in South Jamaica.

Runaway horse makes surprise appearance at JFK Airport after breaking free from South Jamaica stable: PAPD

By Bill Parry

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People

How the Cheng twins fulfilled their mother’s dream of becoming a doctor for themselves

By Renee DeLorenzo

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Courts

Southeast Queens hit-and-run driver sentenced for killing a woman in front of her daughter on Mother’s Day 2022: DA

By Bill Parry

Emergency responders worked to extricate a pedestrian who was trapped beneath a vehicle that struck him on Linden Boulevard in South Jamaica on April 24. The man was pronounced dead the next day.

St. Albans man indicted in hit-and-run collision that killed South Jamaica man in April: NYPD

By Bill Parry

A 16-year-old South Jamaica boy was indicted by a Queens grand jury for the murder of 13-year-old Sanjay Samuel in Cambria Heights,a ccording to the Queens District Attorney's Office.

Southeast Queens teen indicted in murder of 13-year-old Sanjay Samuel in Cambria Heights: DA

By Bill Parry

Speaker Adrienne Adams welcomes students back to two schools in her district on Thursday, Sept. 4.

News

Speaker Adams welcomes students back to school in southeast Queens

By Bill Parry

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South Jamaica man murdered in broad daylight a few doors away from his home: NYPD

By Bill Parry

Three firefighters were injured while battled a raging four alarm fire in a row of two-story mixed use buildings on Aug. 10 at 114-42 through 114-48 Stuphin Blvd. in South Jamaica.

Three firefighters injured while battling four-alarm South Jamaica fire: FDNY

By Zach Gewelb & Lloyd Mitchell

Cops from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are searching for this gunman who opened fire from a rooftop at the South Jamaica Houses NYCHA development on Aug. 5.

Gunman fires off multiple rounds at South Jamaica Houses NYCHA complex: NYPD

By Bill Parry

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Permits filed to double size of 2-story residential building to house nine units in South Jamaica

By Ethan Marshall

A jury in Queens Supreme Court found Roosevelt Rose guilty of murder and other crimes for killing a South Jamaica mom of four on Mother's Day 2022 in front of her daughter on a narrow, dead-end street where she lived.

Courts

Jamaica man gets 25 years to life for Mother’s Day hit-and-run that killed a mom of four in front of her daughter: DA

By Bill Parry

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Ride to vote: Lime offers free e-scooter trips during June primary

By Athena Dawson

Sports

South Jamaica crowned champions of NYCFC’s citywide youth soccer tournament

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News

Speaker Adrienne Adams announces $50K city investment to clean up Liberty Avenue corridor

By Athena Dawson

Third teenager arrested in connection with fatal stabbing of 14-year-old in Sunnyside McDonald’s: DA

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News

South Jamaica Houses see $548K sidewalk improvements completed

By Czarinna Andres

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Senator James Sanders Jr. applauds new consumer protection laws signed by Gov. Hochul

By Colum Motherway

Firefighters battle Queens fire

AMNY

Queens fire at vacant house leaves firefighter injured

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Local nonprofit hosts cash mob to support Black-owned grocery store in Jamaica

By Athena Dawson

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Local elected officials present $650K to support affordable housing improvements in Jamaica

By Athena Dawson

rapes

Crunching the Queens crime numbers: rapes and burglaries increase across borough, grand larcenies decrease

By Ethan Marshall

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