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The NYPD is searching for five suspects in connection with a $1 million home invasion in Kew Gardens, Queens. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice March 26, 2025 QUEENS - Home invaders stormed a Kew Gardens home, bound the occupants and made off with over $1 million in jewelry, cops said.  The NYPD released surveillance video of the masked suspects charging and pushing their way into the house in the vicinity of Mayfair Road and 116 Street.    At around 7:30 pm on March 19, five suspects pushed their way into the house and tied up a 53-year-old and a 36-year-old women with duct tape. The home invaders then scooped up purses, clothing and jewelry which cops said was valued at around $1,105,000.  The suspects were then seen on video hopping into a 2021 white Toyota Rav-4 and drove off. Investigators said the victims were not injured during the robbery.  ...

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the theft of checks from tenants at a Queens building. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Queens Voice March 5, 2025 QUEENS - Cops are looking for a mail thief who has been ripping off checks from tenants at an apartment building in Sunnyside Gardens.  The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect who is believed to have robbed the mailboxes of the same building three times last month.  Investigators said the suspect walked into the lobby of an apartment building on the corner of 51st Street and Skillman Avenue at around midnight on February 5. Cops said the man broke into a mailbox and removed a box containing a bank checkbook.  The same suspect struck again at around 2:44 am on February 10 at the same building. Cops said the thief broke into a mailbox and stole bank checks.  The final incident occurred at around 1:29 am on February 22. Cops sa...

  Julio Medina, the founder of Exodus Transitional Community, allegedly received millions in kickbacks and bribes for steering business to firms run by Weihong Hu, a fundraiser for mayors Adams and de Blasio.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Greg B. Smith , and  Yoav Gonen NEW YORK - A taxpayer-funded program to house incarcerated people released from Rikers in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic became an elaborate fraud conspiracy in which the founder and former CEO of Exodus Transitional Community, Julio Medina, pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Thursday. Medina, Christopher Dantzler, the owner of an unlicensed security firm Exodus hired to provide security at the hotels, and Weihong Hu, owner of two hotels where Exodus placed the inmates when they were released from Rikers and upstate prisons, were charged with a wide variety of federal...

  A heated campaign had urged attending physicians to reject the pending contract with the city Health + Hospitals system, citing staffing and pay.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Claudia Irizarry Aponte Additional reporting by Jonathan Custodio NEW YORK - Attending physicians in ten of the city’s public hospitals system facilities voted to approve a new contract with Health + Hospitals and its affiliates, their union, Doctors Council SEIU, announced Monday, ending their protracted negotiations that culminated with the threat of a strike at several public hospitals earlier this month. But a majority of physicians at three other H+H facilities — Jacobi Medical Center, North Central Bronx Hospital and Harlem Hospital Center — rejected the deal and will go back into bargaining with the city and the private employers who provide the staffing.  The votes followed an organized systemwide opposition cam...

Mayor Eric Adams announces that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has removed more than 20,000 illegal firearms from New York City streets since the beginning of the administration. -Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mayor Eric Adams  Community OpEd  January 27, 2025   NEW YORK - From the moment I was sworn in as your mayor three years ago, our primary mission has been to create safer streets, safer subways, and a safer city for New York families. That means tackling the issue of gun violence head-on and working to get illegal guns out of the hands of criminals before they can cause more harm.   The numbers are in, and I am proud to say that our administration made significant progress in getting guns off our streets and out of our communities. As of last week, we have confiscated more than 20,000 illegal firearms since we first took office. That is 20,000 weapons that no longer threaten the safety of our neighborhood...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivers his fourth State of the City address at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on January 9, 2025. -Photo by Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office By Mayor Eric Adams Community OpEd Queens Voice January 14, 2025   NEW YORK - Last week in Harlem, the neighborhood where generations of Black families have flourished, I reported to New Yorkers on the state of our city and outlined an ambitious agenda to make New York City the best place to raise a family.   When we came into office three years ago, COVID, crime, and chaos­­­­­­­ had thrown New York into uncertainty and pushed too many families away. I told you then that we would not just bring our city back; we’d make it better than ever.   That started with keeping families safe. We put thousands of new officers onto our streets, took nearly 20,000 illegal guns off them, and launched a $485 million action plan to prevent gun violence. These efforts have paid off, with...