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A rendering of the proposed redevelopment of an NYPD parking garage on 168th Street in downtown Jamaica.

Jamaica

Jamaica parking garage will be demolished to make way for 350+ affordable housing units

By Robert Pozarycki

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Politics

Queens’ federal immigration field office should be re-opened now: Katz & Meeks

By Angela Matua

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News

Get your calendars ready! Here are the important dates to remember in 2017

By Robert Pozarycki

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Astoria

Gifted and Talented program at Astoria schools will not be altered without community input

By Angela Matua

The crowd at the Bayside Village Children's Holiday Parade and tree/menorah lighting in 2016.

Bayside

PHOTOS: Thousands turn out for Bayside’s annual holiday parade & tree lighting

By Robert Pozarycki

Former Queens Library President Thomas W. Galante.

Politics

Queens Library settles wrongful termination lawsuit with its ousted president

By QNS News Team

A rendering of the new platform set to be created at the Jamaica LIRR station.

Jamaica

Check out the renovation plans for the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road station

By Robert Pozarycki

Grieving family and friends of Karina Vetrano carry her coffin out of St. Helen's Church in Howard Beach on Saturday.

A mother’s anguish and a desperate search for leads: the latest on the Karina Vetrano murder

By Robert Pozarycki

Police presence continues to be heavy near the marshlands in Howard Beach where Karina Vetrano was found murdered earlier this week.

FBI joins the investigation into the vicious murder of Howard Beach’s Karina Vetrano

By Robert Pozarycki

Elmhurst Park will soon be the home of the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Elmhurst

The long-awaited Queens Vietnam Veterans memorial is finally coming to Elmhurst Park

By Robert Pozarycki

No plans are in place now, but a statue of a historic woman from Queens — such as former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro (at right) — might one day replace the controversial Civic Virtue sculpture that once stood in Kew Gardens.

Why doesn’t a statue of a famous Queens woman replace the sexist Civic Virtue in Kew Gardens?

By Robert Pozarycki

The Clearview Expressway at Northern Boulevard in Bayside.

Astoria

All of the Clearview Expressway and part of the Grand Central Parkway will be repaved

By Robert Pozarycki

The fenced-off former site of the Civic Virtue statue in Kew Gardens.

Former site of sexist statue ‘Civic Virtue’ in Kew Gardens is being rededicated to the women of Queens

By Robert Pozarycki

Last year's opening weekend of the LIC Flea & Food market.

Long Island City

LIC Flea & Food Market makes its return this weekend on the Queens waterfront

By QNS News Team

Pipe and drum bands were front and center during Sunday's St. Pat's for All Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside.

Sunnyside

PHOTOS: Plenty of Irish pride at the St. Pat’s for All Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside

By QNS News Team

Then-Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is pictured at a June 2013 meeting in Glendale.

St. Albans

Queens Library has a new CEO: former Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott

By Robert Pozarycki

Both technical advisory committees assembled by Port Authority to study airplane noise are made up largely of government agencies and airline industry professionals.

Northeast Queens airplane noise: community board wants a say in transit study

By Alina Suriel

Around 1 billion gallons of raw sewage and storm runoff are dumped into a creek near Flushing Bay each year.

Flushing

DEP plans $33M sewer project to reduce Flushing Bay pollution

By Alina Suriel

The public hearing will take place Monday at Borough Hall in Kew Gardens.

Politics

Want the city to fix something in Queens? Speak out at budget hearing Monday

By Alina Suriel

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz at her second State of the Borough address.

Politics

Katz touts progress across Queens in latest State of Borough address

By Alina Suriel

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz at an announcement last year in Forest Hills.

Corona

Katz: Lack of local input dooms Flushing Meadows concerts (for now)

By Robert Pozarycki

Grodenchik talks affordable housing plans at CB 8 meeting

By QNS News Team

Many of the homes in Broadway-Flushing were developed by Rickert-Finlay Realty Company in the early 20th century. The developers attached restrictive deeds to the houses requiring peaked roofs and banning front yard fences.

Flushing

Pols, Flushing homeowners request neighborhood landmark consideration

By Alina Suriel

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Astoria

Parks Department asks Astoria residents for input on upcoming dog run

By Angela Matua

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