Jackson-Heights News

The New York area has several distinct collections of South Asian restaurants, and they tend to be grouped by neighborhood.

Investigators do not think the massive fire that erupted Monday night inside the Bruson Building , injuring three and impacting dozens of businesses, is suspicious, a source told DNAinfo.

The flames broke out just before 6 p.m. Monday on the third floor of the building located at 7409 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, and eventually spread to the fourth floor.

Almost half as many kids had to be waitlisted for kindergarten seats this year after the Department of Education put its application process online, school officials said as offer letters were sent out to families on Monday.

The blaze, which started on the third floor of a four-story building on 37th Ave. at the corner of 75th St. in Jackson Heights, was reported around 6:11 p.m. Monday.

In a nondescript shopping mall, just past a plastic bottle recycling station, in Jackson Heights, Queens, lies one of the best French bakeries in New York.

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Three off-duty NYPD officers were busted for drunk driving in separate incidents during a span of 27 hours, authorities said.

The annual celebration that offers a once-a-year peek inside the neighborhood's private gardens is adding two more stops on its tour, according to the organizer.

NYPD Chief of Transportation Thomas Chan, Council Member Vanessa Gibson, Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Assembly Member Mark Gjonaj unveil the city's second "arterial slow zone" this morning.

By 2010 one of three of New Yorkers were immigrants, something that becomes clear to me every time I take a subway, where a third of my fellow passengers are Asian, or patronize a small business like a dry cleaners, a corner grocery, deli or diner, or the local barber shop.

A new electric carriage commissioned by NYCLASS - a political group that opposes horse drawn carriages - made its debut Thursday at the New York International Auto Show .

Wang's 4-year-old recently scored in the 97th percentile on the city's gifted and talented exam - a very high score, but likely not high enough to earn him a spot in the city's most elite G&T programs, like the Upper West Side's Anderson School and the Lower East Side's NEST+m .

After showing very little growth in the 2010 Census, the government now says Queens is the second fastest growing county in the state with new numbers showing the borough accounted for a third of the 61,000 residents the city gained between 2012 and 2013.

A janitor at a New York City public school has been arrested after authorities say he sexually assaulted a woman inside a Brooklyn middle school, WABC-TV reported Sunday.

A planned service shutdown on the 7 train in Queens next month is being rescheduled to accommodate two major community events in Long Island City, the MTA announced Friday.

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Queens Borough President Melinda Katz helps cleaning ladies from Pa'lante Green Cleaning inaugurate their new employee-owned business at Make the Road New York Tuesday.

A MEXICAN immigrant hunting for a job in Queens hands over $120 cash as an upfront fee to a clerk at an employment agency.