Jackson-Heights News

When I was growing up in Forest Hills, the closest you could get to Mexican food was the Chinese-run taco joint, a Tex-Mex greasy spoon, or a dive bar with nachos.

Congress members representing Queens have introduced a bill that aims to cut down on the airplane noise from nearby airports.

On Saturday, Dec. 14, the Langston Hughes Library in Corona will host its 29th annual Kwanzaa festival, with live music, activities for families and a chance to shop for and make your own holiday crafts.

A controversial Trade Fair supermarket abruptly and mysteriously closed its doors Tuesday, blocking workers from coming in and confusing shoppers who said they didn't receive any warning.

The shooting death of a Tampa cab driver has other drivers uneasy about ferrying passengers to neighborhoods that some might consider dangerous.

Police have asked the public to help them find a man who groped a woman on an E Train in Queens in the middle of the day this week.

Crowds in this city do not always correlate to good taste -- see the hordes that flock to the Tacos Morelos carts in Williamsburg or the East Village instead of the more venerable Jackson Heights restaurant from which the mobile vendors were born.

Uricchio's exhibit "Art Within Nature" kicks off at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the Rye Free Reading Room at 1061 Boston Post Road in Rye.

Drop by Forest Hills Patch on Monday morning to find out about events taking place in the community in the week ahead.

The Brooklyn Community Pride Center celebrated its fifth anniversary this year with a move to a new downtown location that allows them to open their doors to events like a Women's Culture Night and an innovative Queer Co-Working program.

Public officials announce an $800,000 donation from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to help maintain plazas in low-income areas.

Apartment sales in Queens' Jackson Heights neighborhood hit a five-year high in the third quarter of 2013, according to data from local brokerage the Beaudoin Realty Group.

Despite high ridership and a stellar safety record, the Citi Bike program won't be expanding beyond its current slate of 6,000 bikes and 332 stations any time in the near future.

Citi Bike will not be growing any time soon. Six months after the launch of the popular bike sharing program, the New York City Department of Transportation isn't saying when a promised expansion into parts of Brooklyn and Queens will happen.

Three people from St. Lawrence County - two from Ogdensburg and one from Massena - will receive the pope's highest honor given to laym people next month.

BURGER HEAVEN: The spicy cumin lamb burger at Xi'An Famous Foods was the finest dish of the day in a test of restaurants in Queens, NY.

The French pastries at Cannelle Patisserie in Jackson Heights aren't all created equal.

Last night, dozens of protestors gathered in Fort Greene to remember the at least 14 New Yorkers under the age of 18 killed in traffic so far this year, including Fort Greene's own Lucian Merryweather , 9, and demand more traffic enforcement from the police.

Theatre 167 has been awarded a grant from The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation to support their current production of PIRIRA.

I first met Mr. Kagan, who died this week at age 91, in 1997 when I was investigating complaints that German-Jewish heirs discovered that they could no longer re-claim their properties in the former East Germany.