Corona News

The moon isn't made of cheese. It's made of lime. Corona and ad agency Cramer-Krasselt have put up a fun billboard in New York City which - on certain nights of the month, from a certain angle - makes the waxing crescent moon look like a slice of lime resting in a Corona bottle.

Queens residents gathered on the steps of City Hall last week to call on the city to preserve Flushing Meadows Corona Park, not develop it.

Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and composer Luis Russell, was a lifelong friend and colleague of Louis Armstrong.

Anita Wallgren of Arlington and her friend Beth Allaben of Washington took a trip to the New York borough of Queens, where they visited the 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center.

Gabriel Cabrera, the poetry editor at Newtown Literary, is taking a manual typewriter around Queens to collect a line of poetry from residents for the Traveling Typewriter project.

PLAINSBORO - A Queens man was charged with reckless driving and drunken driving with children in his car after police pulled him over last week on U.S. 1. Rafael A. Cordero, 35, of Corona, N.Y., was stopped shortly before 11 p.m. May 28 in a northbound lane of the highway, police said.

A cop busted a drunken driver after observing him giddily - and recklessly - making turn after turn in his brand-new luxury car in a Mariners Harbor parking lot Tuesday night, authorities said.

Cops are hunting for two brutes who beat and stabbed a 17-year-old boy on a Queens street - an attack that was captured on surveillance video.

A Lyndhurst man was among three suspects arrested in New York City in connection with the abduction of a Queens businessman, who reportedly was held captive and brutalized for 32 days while his kidnappers demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and N.Y.C. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly ... (more)

As part of Family Forest , a new attraction in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park , kids can now ride a dragon-shaped rollercoaster, the only currently operating roller coaster in Queens, according to the Parks Department and ride's operator.

A 9-year-old girl was in stable condition yesterday after being struck by a van on a residential street in Corona, Queens.

Eddie Llano holds a photo of his slain 89-year-old father, Damaso, with friends.

Maryann Sherman, shown above, the librarian at Jefferson Elementary School for 25 years, put on quite a show at the school's 85th anniversary on Wednesday, May 22.

Three men were charged Wednesday with kidnapping an Ecuadorean national in Queens, and holding him in a warehouse for a month as they demanded $3 million ransom.