Queens News

FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the movie "Goodfellas."

Richard Ferrugio of Queens, N.Y., could spend two years behind bars after being found guilty of aggravated animal cruelty for killing an alley cat, reported Monday's New York Post.

AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and other devices for free.

A mother and son duo were arrested Monday by Nassau police and charged with presenting forged prescriptions that were filled at Long Island pharmacies nearly three years ago, Nassau County police said in a Monday night news release.

This plaque memorializing PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford is set to be installed at the Church of the Village on Sunday, June 23, 2013.

This summer, the main city beach in the Rockaways, Queens, may be more crowded than in past years.

"What type of cellphone do you have, what carrier is it and what's your favorite app?" At 7:30pm, after media and tech folk scrambled into the Museum of the Moving Image off 35th Avenue in Astoria, the NYC Tech Forum began.

A commuter train shook on the tracks and then derailed in a tunnel under the East River shortly after leaving Penn Station on Monday night, forcing the hundreds of passengers on it to be removed and delaying the trip home for many others.

A family photo of Bayside, Queens, resident Pan Sun Kim. Police say jewelry similar to Kim's was found on a body discovered near the Woodbury Common Premium outlets in May. The Woodbury Police Department are waiting a positive DNA match before positively identifying the body but have been in touch with Kim's family.

Careless drivers going twice the legal limit on Brooklyn streets helped the borough earn its dubious distinction as the city's deadliest place for traffic and pedestrians.

Privacy and convenience are featured in this lovely Forest Hills Gardens Coop for sale.

The FBI began digging for a body Monday in the former Queens home of notorious mob boss James "Jimmy The Gent" Burke, who was played by Robert De Niro in the movie "Goodfellas," sources told DNAinfo New York.

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Grammy, Emmy, and now Tony Award-winning Cyndi Lauper , famous as an early 1980s MTV icon via her multi-platinum selling album "She's So Unusual," is landing in Temecula amidst a perfect storm of success.

NYPD officer Joseph Koch, 29, got a chance to impress his future in-laws when he bolted from a barbecue at his fiancA©e's father's house in Jamaica on Sunday night to help a neighbor calling for help.

Police converge on scene at South Road and Inwood St. in Jamaica, where an off-duty police officer was shot in the hand after responding an altercation nearby.

The developer for the 1,000-megawatt transmission line from the Canadian border to Astoria, Queens, will return to the town Tuesday.

T he Maxmobile, my deceased father's legacy, is on life support at a local auto repair shop.

Police are looking to speak with a teenager about a Friday shooting that wounded a girl in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx.

Being listed can help owners restore and maintain properties because they're eligible for certain public programs, grants and tax credits.