Queens News

Cook is expected to back Ruben Wills, the former chief of staff to State Sen. Shirley Huntley, who is positioning himself as the natural successor to White.

Bill Keller, a pastor in Florida, has come to New York to bash the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Starting Tuesday, Manhattan-bound A trains will no longer be making stops at Beach 25th, 44th, and 67th Streets in the Rockaways.

A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday.

On a rain-soaked Monday when the Manhattan monsoons robbed everybody of composure, Tony Bennett popped into his Central Park South studio, his natty sport coat and sockless shoes not looking in the least bit damp.

Forty percent of NYC schoolkids from kindergarten through eighth grade -- 254,076 kids -- are either overweight or obese, according to 2008-2009 data gathered and analyzed by the city's department of education , the New York Post reported Sunday.

Alan Rabinowitz who, as a child, had a severe, incapacitating stutter, made a promise to be a voice for the world's big cats, particularly jaguars.

Marooned on a lonesome block, at the corner of 21st Street and 49th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, the M. Wells diner serves a Qubcois take on short-order cooking: from crab and egg hash to pickled pork tongue.

A 39-year-old man driving on his bread delivery route through Brooklyn on Friday night was killed after bullets apparently fired by someone on a building's rooftop pierced the ceiling of his work van and struck him in the head, the police said.

A drunken Queens dad cruised his car 30 blocks down the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk - with six kids in the back, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Carl Paladino's campaign to become governor of New York doesn't include making nice to its biggest city - or most of it, anyway.

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From the Queens Ledger : When Paola Belotti attended a barbecue that was hosted in the alleyway behind Maspeth Discount Liquors some years back, she was distracted by the graffiti covering the surrounding walls, particularly the atrocities on the back wall of 56-05 69th Street.

A man with a reputation of impersonating a transit worker is in trouble with the law once again.

Three relatives of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark went to court Friday, asking that a guardian be appointed to protect her from potential financial abuse by her attorney and accountant.

A bandit on two wheels has been terrorizing a Queens neighborhood for more than a month, smoothly riding up to his victims from behind and snatching their belongings, cops said.

An auto dealer who was reportedly unable to honour his obligation of supplying vehicles to his clients after receiving payments from them was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magi-strate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistratea TMs Court accused of a multi-million dollar fraud.

More than 40 employees of the Queens Library will be laid off Friday after last-ditch negotiations to save their jobs fell through, officials said.

Nicole Paultre Bell, at the funeral of Councilman Thomas White Jr., is said to be considering a run for the politician's seat.

Deep in the heart of industrial Long Island City, where taxi drivers rest during their breaks and the clanging sounds of workers in auto body shops echo through the streets, there is a place on the corner of 41st Avenue ad 27th Street, hidden from the gritty surroundings, where Northwest Queensa thriving arts scene has one of its many hidden homes.