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  The Civilian Complaint Review Board has found Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco committed misconduct when they shot Win Rozario inside his home during a mental health crisis. This article originally appeared in The City. By Reuven Blau Queens Voice September 15, 2025 QUEENS - The city’s police watchdog group has recommended a slew of misconduct charges against two cops who shot a 19-year-old to death inside his Queens home last year, a case that sparked widespread outrage and scrutiny of the NYPD response to mental health calls. The Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday concluded Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco committed multiple acts of misconduct — including excessive force and abuse of authority — when they tased and shot Win Rozario in March 2024, officials said. The allegations being "substantiated" by the CCRB means both officers now face departmental discipline, which could lead to their termination but more often than not on...

    With weeks left before local boards recommend gaming sites to the state, neighbors of Ferry Point Park and Citi Field lined up to make competing cases for construction jobs and against gambling. This article originally appeared in The City. By Haidee Chu and Jonathan Custodio Queens Voice September 12, 2025 QUEENS  - Community members, business owners and union representatives exchanged heated arguments for and against two controversial casino projects at public hearings in Queens and The Bronx Tuesday evening — taking their last swings at influencing local community advisory committees that will decide in less than three weeks whether casino bids in their neighborhoods advance toward potential state approval. At a nonprofit community center in Throggs Neck in The Bronx, 88 speakers signed up to share their thoughts about a $4 bill...

  The new Portland Loo bathroom at Joyce Kilmer Park has opened at a cost of $1 million as seen in this. -Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Queens Voice August 13, 2025 NEW YORK - The Parks Department has announced a new pilot program where five new public bathrooms will open across the city. The one Bronx bathroom at Joyce Kilmer Park has opened to mixed reviews—especially after residents learned of the $1 million price tag and patrons could be observed by sickos from outside the bathroom. On July 1, Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa announced the installation of five new “Portland Loos” at a cost of $6 million as part of the “ We Outside Summer ” pilot program. A press release about the new program states that the bathrooms “get built faster and for a fraction of the cost.” The Adams Administration plans to spend $150 million in the construction of 46 new bathrooms and renovating 36 existin...

United in Grief - City mourns slain immigrant cop A police officer approaches heckler and pro-Palestinian activist Aldo Rafael Perez at a memorial service for slain NYPD Detective Didarul Islam outside of the 47th Precinct on Laconia Avenue on August 1. -Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Queens Voice  August 12, 2025 NEW YORK  - A somber crowd estimated at 15,000 gathered in Parkchester to say goodbye to Detective First Grade Didarul Islam , 36, who was shot and killed after a deranged man entered a Midtown office building on July 28. Days after the first Muslim NYPD officer to be killed was laid to rest, a pro-Palestinian protester claimed he was arrested at Islam’s memorial—but the NYPD had no record of the arrest. On July 31, members of multiple law enforcement agencies joined members of the NYPD, the Bangladeshi and Parkchester communities as they surrounded Islam’s family who silently walked behin...