Jackson-Heights News

Parents in the city's second most overcrowded school district are making a push for another middle school, hoping to reduce some of the pressure on their tweens.

Ramil Buenaventur, a teacher at Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens, is nominated for a Hometown Heroes in Education award Queens math teacher Ramil Buenaventura achieved his American dream by emigrating from the Philippines a decade ago.

L to R: Robert Lin, Marty Kirchner, Leni Juca, Sam Stein, Frank Rafalian, Sarah Pomar, Sam Touban and Tania Mattos hold up signed petitions against the proposed Roosevelt Avenue business improvement district.

This week, Adam Platt gave Batard three stars, praising the "refreshing unpretentiousness" of its prix-fixe menu items like an artichoke barigoule "so technically perfect that it caused my vegetable-snob wife to put down her fork and practically clap with glee."

Eateries that serve the cuisine of Puebla, and the nearby states of Guerrero and Morelos, all in southern Mexico, have become common in the five boroughs.

THIS awesome photo series captures the intimacy and loneliness of eating alone in one of the world's most famous cities.

COPSHOT founder Edward Arrigoni and Director of Operations John Provetto work to ensure cop shooters have no place to hide.

Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights is "a mecca of human trafficking" where women from countries including Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela are being sexually exploited, elected officials said Thursday.

Police on Thursday were asking the public to help them find a suspect in an attempted rape last month in Jackson Heights, Queens.

The space that once held Apiary , followed by its short-lived superflop revamp AprA s , is now open as Unidentified Flying Chickens , a Korean fried chicken outlet from Jackson Heights.

When a nomadic, Austrian permaculturist and health coach invites three strangers to dinner at her temporary home in Williamsburg, they bond over food and food for thought.

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The OBIE Award-winning Theater:Village festival, which is presented by Axis Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre , New Ohio Theatre, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, returns for its second year, September 4 - October 5. Following last year's The Hill Town Plays, which presented five works by the playwright Lucy Thurber , this year's festival, titled E ... (more)

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This summer a small group of Queens families is leading a push to change the school district lines in their neighborhood, ever so slightly.

A suspected drunk driver has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after police say he struck and killed a man in Queens.

At 4:30 a.m. police responded to 92nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, and discovered that a male pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle.

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The Jackson Heights Orhcestra is set to perform its first outdoor show this summer during the free "Summer Sundays in the Park" music series at Travers Park , now in its 10th year.

After more than two years at the helm of the 112th Precinct , in which not a single murder was recorded, Commanding Officer Capt.