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1 week ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Barbara Russo |Lloyd Mitchell |Brooklyn Paper
Residents and transportation advocates rallied in Canarsie on Sunday, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to bring a ferry dock to a notorious “transportation desert.”Led by Jibreel Jalloh, founder of The Flossy Organization, which advocates for marginalized communities, the group demanded that Adams open a fast NYC Ferry route connecting Canarsie to bustling Manhattan.
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2 months ago | 
qns.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Czarinna Andres
Early morning shoppers and workers were evacuated from the New World Mall in Flushing after an electrical fire sent heavy smoke throughout the building just before 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. The mall, located at 120-36 Roosevelt Ave., was quickly cleared as firefighters responded to the emergency. Firefighters arrived to find arcing wires and heavy smoke conditions extending from the basement through the third floor of the building.
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2 months ago | 
brooklynpaper.com | Kirstyn Brendlen |Lloyd Mitchell
A fire in a large Bay Ridge apartment building left at least two people injured on Wednesday morning. The blaze broke out on the third floor of a seven-story building on 3rd Avenue near 99th Street around 11 a.m., per the FDNY. When firefighters arrived in the building at 11:15 a.m., one third-floor apartment was engulfed in flames and the upper floors were filled with smoke.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
qns.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Robert Pozarycki
Gov. Kathy Hochul visited Queens on Sunday, promoting her economic agenda at a St. Albans church service before opposing Medicaid cuts during a stop at St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital in Bayside. Close Get the Full StoryNews, events, culture and more — delivered to you.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
qns.com | Bill Parry |Lloyd Mitchell
The FDNY battled a stubborn three-alarm fire in College Point that started in a two-story home near the waterfront of Flushing Bay and threatened a commercial building next door on Sunday evening.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
brooklynpaper.com | Kirstyn Brendlen |Lloyd Mitchell
A three-alarm fire consumed a Bushwick church on Wednesday morning. The fire started at the more than century-old Iglesia Pentecostal Arca Cristiana at 1155 Halsey Street at around 10:30 a.m., and firefighters moved in “aggressively,” said FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods. But with the bell tower and a large portion of the wood-framed church engulfed in flames and the building at risk of collapse, firefighters were forced to retreat and work to control the fire from outside.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
politicsny.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Robert Pozarycki
Get our insider newsletter delivered direct to you. As Mayor Eric Adams fights for his political life, some of his most ardent supporters preached their continued faith in him on Monday during a rally at an Ocean Hill church. Numerous community and clergy leaders came together on Feb. 17 at Rehoboth Cathedral to voice their unyielding support for the embattled mayor.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
brooklynpaper.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Robert Pozarycki |Brooklyn Paper
As Mayor Eric Adams fights for his political life, some of his most ardent supporters preached their continued faith in him on Monday during a rally at an Ocean Hill church. Numerous community and clergy leaders came together on Feb. 17 at Rehoboth Cathedral to voice their unyielding support for the embattled mayor.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
qns.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Robert Pozarycki
Mayor Eric Adams visited a church in Queens Village on Sunday amid mounting pressure to resign or be removed from office and made one thing clear to congregants: “I am going nowhere.” Close Get the Full StoryNews, events, culture and more — delivered to your inbox.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
bxtimes.com | Lloyd Mitchell |Robert Pozarycki |Christian Murray
Two people in the Bronx were killed Wednesday morning as a massive fire ripped through a Buddhist temple and a nearby home. Fire Department sources said the three-alarm inferno erupted inside 2064 St. Anthony Ave. in Mount Hope just before 6 a.m. on Feb. 12. Close Get the Full StoryNews, events, culture and more — delivered to your inbox.
