Queens News - Local News

Muggers Pistol Whip Vic, Steal His Clothes Cops are asking for the public's help in locating this car. Police say a man was kidnapped and robbed inside this Toyota Corolla.  -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Queens Voice May 22, 2023 QUEENS - A Queens man looking to sell items to a person he met on social media was beaten, thrown into a car and robbed of his merchandise and clothes and then left in a Brooklyn park. At around 2 am on May 20, a 27-year-old went to a location in the vicinity of 135th Street and Grand Central Parkway to sell merchandise to a man he spoke to on social media. As he met with buyer, three other men walked up behind the seller. The group then punched and kicked the man. Then the attackers pushed him into a gray 2022 Toyota Corolla. Inside the car on of his attackers pulled a gun on him. The gunman threatened the victim and then pistol whipped him about the head. The muggers then forcibly removed the victi...

Mayor Eric Adams joins NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks to announce the “New York City Reads" campaign. PS 156 Waverly, Brooklyn. Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mayor Eric Adams Community Op-Ed  May 18, 2023 NEW YORK - New York City has the largest public school system in the nation, and we are proud of our dedicated teachers and administrators who do so much to educate our talented students from so many different backgrounds and countries. We want to set up our students for success, and teaching them to read confidently is crucial to our efforts.   That is why we are making a historic shift in our curriculum, and launching NYC Reads, a program based on proven science-of-reading techniques. We will teach our students skills that they can fall back on to decode words when the level becomes difficult, and we will train our teachers so they can provide instruction effectively.    When our young people don’t lear...

Police are searching for two men in connection with the mugging of scooters in Queens. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein  Queens Voice May 18, 2023 QUEENS - Cops are looking for a pair of muggers who have assaulted riders and stole their scooters in Queens.  At around 8 pm on April 25, a 40-year-old man was riding a motorized scooter. Two men ran up alongside him and shoved him off the scooter. As the man lay in the street, the attackers hopped on the scooter and headed westbound on Roosevelt Avenue.  Two hours later the pair struck again. At around 10 pm, a 28-year-old man was riding his motorized scooter in the vicinity of 3510 College Point Boulevard.  The muggers rode up alongside him on another scooter. The man on the back of the scooter shoved the victim off his scooter. As the victim fell to the floor and lay in the street, one of the muggers picked up the victim’s scooter and the pair drove off southbound on College Point Boulevard....

The city set up a temporary shelter inside P.S. 172’s gym in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. | Obtained by THE CITY Seven School Gyms Are Housing Migrants or Could Soon. Parents and Pols Are Pushing Back By Gwynne Hogan, The City This article was originally published on May 15 7:56pm EDT by THE CITY NEW YORK - Seven public school gyms are now either in use as emergency shelter for migrants or are being readied for use, all but one of them in Brooklyn — prompting pushback from parents and local officials. Over the weekend, as border restrictions known as Title 42 expired, agencies transported migrants to P721R Richard H. Hungerford School on Staten Island, a City Hall official confirmed, quickly filling it to its 500-person capacity. The next destination was the gymnasium of P.S. 188 in Coney Island, which neared its capacity by Sunday, according to City Councilmember Ari Kagan (R-Brooklyn).  By Monday, 67 cots were set up inside the gymnasium of P.S. 172 in Sunset Pa...

By Julian Shen-Berro, Chalkbeat New York Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization covering public education in communities across America. Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. NEW YORK - New York City public school families, regardless of income, will soon receive a new allotment of food benefits of at least $391 per child, according state officials.  Known as the Coronavirus Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or P-EBT, the federal program aims to help families whose children typically receive free meals at school — and since New York City public schools have universal meals, all families are eligible. The latest disbursement of funds — which could total up to $1,671 per child based on COVID-related absences or remote-learning days — is based on the 2021-22 school year and the summer of 2022. The rollout began in April, with most payments posting this month, according to the state. Officials expect dist...