Arverne News

A 23-year-old Queens man has been arrested in connection with two rapes in the Rockaways.

Preparations for the High Holy Days have taken on a new urgency this year at Congregation Derech Emunoh, once one of the city's largest synagogues, but for the last seven years reduced to conducting services in a run-down double-wide trailer hard by the Atlantic Ocean on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

Developers of the long-promised City Point mixed-use project in Brooklyn will get tax-exempt bonds to advance the construction on the site of the old Albee Square Mall.

From NY Magazine : Like so many residential roads in America, Beach 70th Street has become a battleground.

Published Thursday 10 September 2009 08:10pm EST. The ethereal and slightly bohemian vibes of the Rockaways make it an ideal getaway for urban explorers on treks to the less traveled outskirts of New York City.

A midday shooting inside a Chinese restaurant in Queens on Monday left one man dead and sent others scurrying for cover, police and witnesses said.

Park Lane at Sea View Apartments is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for 72 affordable housing rental apartments under construction at 460 Brielle Avenue in the Willowbrook section of Staten Island.

"Arverne by the Sea", is one of the country's largest urban renewal projects. Developers call it a great opportunity for the first time home buyer.

The Bloomberg administration, moving to restart stalled development in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, has picked a big housing and retail complex to receive $20 million in tax-exempt bonds financed by the federal stimulus program.

Still, the NYPD was on high alert Tuesday morning for the funeral of Williams, who was gunned down in the Rockaways last month in what police called a gang shooting.