Flushing News

In the following press release Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Flushing man has been charged with second-degree attempted grand larceny, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and other charges for allegedly forging the signature of a man whose home had been foreclosed on in an effort to collect ...

Attorney Jeffrey Rothman, , Carlos Cruz and his son Stephen Cruz outside the Department of Education on Thursday.

Flushing is a true New York City melting pot, calling itself home to everything from Middle Eastern markets to Korean cuisine.

While standing in front of the present-day RKO Keith's, Flushing resident Jerry Rotondi holds a photo of the famed movie theater from the 1940s.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12 comments: Anonymous said... I hope that Peter Koo won't be tweeded.

Popularity has been a double-edged sword in Flushing, Queens, one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods.

The electoral landscape is ever-changing, evolving and undergoing a modern-day "renaissance", especially after the election of President Barack Obama.

One great aspect of a job that requires traveling is the opportunity to visit with family and friends who live in the area.

When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstronga s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves.

Nassau County Narcotics/Vice Squad arrested two Queens women Oct. 26 for prostitution and performing illegal massages in North Massapequa, according to detectives.

Fire officials are investigating a major gas explosion that occurred in a row of homes in Flushing, Queens.

ROSE GILL HEARN, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation , announced the arrest of JIANGUO GAO, a construction company supervisor charged late yesterday with giving a DOI undercover investigator a $50 bribe to overlook violations at a Flushing, Queens construction site.

From the Queens Gazette : At public land use hearings on Thursday, October 15, at Queens Borough Hall, real estate developer Chris Xu submitted an application for constructing a hotel and supermarket in an area of Flushing that is zoned for industrialized and commercial use.

Several Chinese organizations launched a global petition called "Looking for Gao Zhisheng," on October 20.

In Flushing, a Korean-Chinese crossroads. HLing went nose-to-nose with a gigantic kimchee bun at Ming Chan Dong , and came out a winner.

Boy howdy this story raises red flags all over the place. She was a safety coordinator and supposedly over loaded an outlet and removed her smoke detector and the 911 operator gave the wrong address.

A fire in a Queens apartment building early Sunday left a 44-year-old woman dead and three others critically injured, the authorities said.

Bubble tea, also known as "Boba Tea," comes in a variety of flavors--from taro to cantaloupe--but one thing remains constant: delicious tapioca balls invade each sip.

Herbert Siegel, 75, retired CEO from Long Beach, N.Y., won the 2009 New York Senior Poet Laureate Award for his poem "Monuments" in the 17th annual national Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older.

Queens may have the only inhabitants to deny their borough. No one lives here. We tell people we're from Astoria or Bayside, Jackson Heights or Glen Oaks.