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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...

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo announces he is running for Mayor. -Photo by YouTube Releases New Direct Address to New Yorkers. Watch it  Here .   Manhattan Voice March 1, 2025 NEW YORK - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced his candidacy to serve as the next Mayor of New York City. In a direct address to New Yorkers, the Governor emphasized his lifetime of public service, record of accomplishment for New York, and the importance of restoring strong and experienced leadership to help solve the city’s most pressing challenges during these troubling times. He also launched a new  AndrewCuomo.com  website.  The video address can be found  here  and the transcript appears below: Hello, I’m Andrew Cuomo. Let me start by telling you what you already know. New York City is the greatest city in the world, there is no other place like it, and – as in life – we have had times when we are at our shining best,...

  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...