Jackson-Heights News

Celina Alvarez and other members of Make the Road New York chant "Si se puede" outside a restaurant owned by the shady boss who they say shorted her nearly $5,000.

In a materialistic world many people are losing faith on the supernatural consistently.

Jackson Heights, New York, NYRoom For SharingLooking for a male roommate to share one bedroom in a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment.

Jackson Heights, New York, NYRoom For SharingLooking for a male roommate to share one bedroom in a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment.

2 Line: Trains will run local in both directions between 96th Street and 42nd Street from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday.

A movie written more than two decades ago by a Sundance Film Festival-honored artist who has since died was recently completed by a Jackson Heights filmmaker and will make its Queens debut Friday as part of the Queens World Film Festival .

While some charter operators rallied in Albany this week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, others were working more quietly behind the scenes.

According to an announcement posted on his site Tuesday , Hikind's ads asking, "Would you be a Nazi's neighbor?" will be appearing in newspapers and bus stops around New York starting Wednesday.

Jackson Heights, New York, NYRoom For SharingLooking for a male roommate to share one bedroom in a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment.

Police Officer Michael Konatsotis, center, laughs as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, reaches out to his partner, Police Officer David Roussine, left, during a news conference at City Hall on March 3, 2014.

This week families in and around Western Queens can enjoy the following special activities below, including a unique program celebrating poetry from around the Muslim world.

Exactly what process is involved in conferring an outrageous financial meaning to a contemporary work of art? Is there an international committee of art ephors in the Himalayas who look at and assess a work and decide that it is so meaningful, relevant and transformational that it has to be bought by a wealthy art buyer immediately and then placed ... (more)

The annual Tibetan New Year celebration, the biggest holiday for Tibetan and Nepali immigrants, will be kicking off next week in Jackson Heights with several days of celebration.

Jackson Heights residents say a local Starbucks has been leaving open bags of food waste and coffee grounds on 79th Street "for several years," and despite attempts to get through to the coffee shop's management and corporate headquarters, there's been no change.

As city government started work on the Vision Zero Action Plan, statistics professor Ben Wellington saw an opportunity to use data on crashes and fatalities to show the magnitude of the challenge.

Following Mayor Bill de Blasio announcement that he will break with a recent tradition and refuse to march in the Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade, the City Council has announced it will do the same.

The director's cut of an Oscar-nominated documentary will premiere at a Queens film festival which brings movies from around the world to the borough in March.

Jackson Heights, New York, NYRoom For SharingLooking for a male roommate to share one bedroom in a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment.

A fitness camp and an art and storytelling program are heading to a kindergarten class on Northern Boulevard, thanks to the school's neighbors.

Bright, fluffy desserts and a small yet authentic menu are the star at a new restaurant on a stretch known as "Little Thailand."