Jackson-Heights News

The recent spate of anti-gay hate crimes has shocked many in the gay community. According to police, these crimes have more than doubled so far this year from 14 to 29, and most have been in Manhattan.

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.

Many South Asian women in New York are breaking down barriers within their community as neighborhood activists.

A damning ethics report that revealed Assemblyman Vito Lopez's penchant for propositioning young women, his high-heel fetish and his aversion to bras brought back a flood of unpleasant memories for one former colleague.

QUEENS park advocates are giving a yellow card to Mayor Bloomberg's plan to take part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for a soccer field - and then "replace" the lost greenspace with a new park several miles and neighborhoods away.

Momos, or Himalayan dumplings, are quietly becoming one the most popular dishes in Queens.

You don't have to go far from home to enjoy some of the best food from around the world.

The federal crackdown on a Queens sex trafficking ring targeted an alleged brothel in this house in Poughkeepsie, as well as sites in Yonkers and Newburgh.

At one Mother's Day brunch in Jackson Heights, the topic in the front of everyone's mind was immigration rights .

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

Spring has sprung, and with it came a new on-street bike corral on 82nd Street in Jackson Heights, near Roosevelt Avenue.

Momo are Himalayan dumplings, usually round and puckered, but sometimes oblong with a ridge on top.

Elmhurst Hospital and Healthfirst held their 4th Annual Cinco De Mayo festival on Friday, May 3, with music, face painting and numerous informational workshops for the community to learn about available health services.

Two candidates in the Queens borough president race are pushing to make Queens a tourist destination.

In honor of both spring and summer's advent, here's yet another review of three additional local parks situated around Western Queens , particularly Jackson Heights.

This dedication to public service not only extends to Wohlgemuth's children, one of whom is a litigator over in Mineola and the other serving in the Navy, but is a legacy of her mother, who died of cancer at the age of 51.

City officials may say the economic outlook looks bright, but even workers with fulltime jobs in the city aren't buying it.

The 108th Precinct in Queens is getting a new commanding officer, as Deputy Inspector Donald Powers moves on from the post he's held for the last three years.

The MTA is moving forward with a plan to revamp the city's bus service to LaGuardia Airport in Queens.

In this production by NYIT Award-nominated Caps Lock Theatre, nytheatre.com "Person of the Year" Mariah MacCarthy reunites with director Leta Tremblay on their second site-specific production together, this time at an Astoria apartment.