“The French Workshop,” a bakery that opened in Bayside in 2015, will open its fifth location in Astoria by the end of 2024.  The expansion to the other side of the borough is part of a broader plan to bring the popular cafe chain to neighborhoods around the country as franchises. In the past decade,...

King Singh, an 11-year-old from Queens Village, issued a heartfelt plea for blood donations at Cohen Children’s Medical Center on Thursday, highlighting the life-saving impact of blood transfusions. Joined by his family and representatives from the New York Blood Center, King spoke about his ongoing battle with leukemia and the rare genetic blood disorder G6PD,...

A South Richmond Hill man was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison on Thursday for five counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of distributing child pornography while being a registered sex offender. Davis Burgos-Collazo, 45, of Atlantic Avenue, was convicted by a jury following a one-week trial in Brooklyn...

A Flushing man was criminally charged in the fatal stabbing of his wife in front of horrified customers at a Kissena Boulevard spa during the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 3. Jiahai Ma, 25, of Cherry Avenue, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday evening on a criminal complaint charging him with second-degree murder and...

A group of legendary hip-hop DJs with ties to Queens were inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) on Saturday, Aug. 24.  The LIMEHOF held an induction ceremony for  DJ Jazzy Jay, Davy DMX and DJ Hurricane at their facility in Stony Brook, located at 97 Main St. Both Davy...