Queens

Cid Wilson remembers the fear and disbelief. Twenty years ago, the nation’s second-deadliest plane crash shook a terrified nation two months after the Sept. 11 attacks. But it really hit one group particularly hard: New York City’s growing Dominican American community. On Nov. 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Queens, New York, shortly after takeoff. All 260 people aboard...

The passenger on board a New York City-bound flight whose alleged behavior prompted the plane’s pilot to make an emergency landing has been released. The unidentified passenger had been taken into custody for questioning Saturday after the plane landed at LaGuardia Airport. A Port Authority spokesperson said Sunday that the passenger was not expected to face any criminal charges....

A potential security concern prompted an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport and led police to place one of the plane’s passengers into custody for questioning, federal and airline officials confirmed Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the safe landing of Republic Airways Flight 4817 at the Queens airport around 3 p.m. following a “security incident.” All 80 passengers and crew…

A man in Queens is crying fowl after an animal attack on his way to work left him bloodied and concerned for his neighbors’ safety — but it wasn’t a dog, cat or even a New York City rat that went after him. His aggressor was a rooster.

Pointing accusingly at climate change, President Joe Biden toured deadly flood damage in New Jersey and New York City Tuesday and said he was thinking about the all families who suffered “profound” losses from the powerful remnants of Ida. Biden first toured Manville, New Jersey, a community devastated both by fires and floods. Later, he visited Queens, which lost nearly…

Prosecutors allege Richard McCormick had gun parts, silencers, switchblades, brass knuckles and piles of cash as well.

Carlton Roman walked out of the court building in the afternoon after what appears to have been a miscarriage and travesty of justice from the beginning, which included lying witnesses, a homicide file that disappeared and 911 tapes that suddenly surfaced.

A television actor has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Queens man in February

The NYPD is searching for a duo they say attempted to kidnap a 5-year-old boy in Queens Thursday — an attempt that was thwarted by the young child’s mother.

Travelers often unknowingly violate local protocols. Experts say these are the worst tourist offenses they see on their home turfs.

A 33-year-old Queens woman was sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for her role in planning a terrorist attack in the United States, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday

An Asian man was thrown onto train tracks inside a station in Queens early Monday morning, and pulled back to safety by other commuters before he could be hit by a train. Police want to find the man responsible for allegedly shoving the 36-year-old Queens man onto the tracks around 7:45 a.m. at the 21st-Queensbridge Station just as an F…

Four men in New York City were found carrying a woman’s body to the trunk of their car in the middle of the night, according to police. The NYPD said officers initially saw the men toting a large object as they left an area on Foam Place in Far Rockaway before 2 a.m. Wednesday. Cops saw them place the...

Video of a bizarre and shocking burglary in Queens shows a thief break a window of a frozen yogurt shop in Queens and take some items from inside — as two young children stand by and even hold a light to aid in the robbery, police said.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

Authorities seized more than 100 pounds of cocaine branded with “CR7” – the nickname for international soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo – from a luxury residential complex in Queens, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Evelyn Sakash, who won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 and was known to be a hoarder, was found by her sister and a cleaning crew lying on her kitchen floor buried under piles of garbage, police said.

A United States Postal Service mail carrier is facing numerous charges for allegedly using a credit card stolen from her postal route and using it to pay for an $8,000 surgical procedure at a Long Island medical office in September 2019, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Small, 31 and of Jamaica, Queens, was arraigned Wednesday night on a…

After spending decades behind bars for a double murder in New York City in 1996, three men will walk free Friday after having their wrongful convictions vacated. George Bell, Rohan Bolt and Gary Johnson were convicted in the Dec. 21, 1996 murders of Ira “Mike” Epstein and NYPD Police Officer Charles Davis in the course of robbing Epstein’s check-cashing business….

Christine Pathak has marked every milestone in a hospital — most of them inside St. Mary’s in Queens. Everything from trick-or-treating to Thanksgiving to Christmas to birthdays were celebrated at the hospital. That all changed Friday. It was during her time hospitalized, when there were moments that standing seemed impossible for the now 2-and-a-half-year-old. The fact that she walked through…