Queens

Three teenage boys are wanted for a string of 12 robberies in Queens, where police say they’ve been swiping cell phones and watches from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile stores.

The NYPD says three teenaged boys are behind a months-long string of robberies that span across three separate boroughs in New York City. From the mid-September through mid-October, police say three teens stole from at least 12 different Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile stores. The first reported robbery occurred on Sept. 11 with the most recent incident on Oct. 13, police…

New York City officials said they shut down an illegal party of more than 200 people who were violating pandemic restrictions at a catering hall.

Revelers at the Queens Luxe Banquet Hall early Saturday morning were not social distancing or wearing proper face coverings, according to the New York City Sheriff’s Office.

Police are looking for a man they say repeatedly punched and pushed a woman more than twice his age, causing her to fall to the pavement, after some sort of confrontation on the road in Queens earlier this month, authorities say. The 69-year-old woman was getting out of a vehicle on Ninth Street in Astoria shortly before 5 p.m. Oct….

Police are looking for a man they say repeatedly punched and pushed a woman more than twice his age, causing her to fall to the pavement. Myles Miller reports.

Surveillance video shows the woman put down her bag near the sidewalk as she and the man, still in his vehicle, apparently exchange words. Then he suddenly gets out of the driver’s side door and slugs her as she puts her hand in the air to ward off the blows. She tries to fight back and he shoves her backward,...

The 23-year-old woman arrested earlier this week after her newborn baby was found abandoned allegedly tossed the baby out her bathroom window then proceeded to throw her clothes in the laundry hamper, shower and sleep, prosecutors say. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday that Sabita Dookram, of Richmond Hill, was arraigned and charged with attempted murder and other crimes…

A mother has been arrested and faces several charges after allegedly abandoning her newborn outside a house in Queens on Sunday, police said. The baby was found laying in the alleyway of a house in the Ozone Park neighborhood around 10 a.m. and rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Police on Monday said the newborn remained critical. A…

A screaming, unmasked heckler interrupted the start — and later additional parts — of a briefing by health officials in Brooklyn Friday as they provided an update on emerging COVID clusters there and in Queens that have become so severe they may prompt the first new shutdowns in New York City in months.

A newborn baby was found abandoned outside a house in Queens and rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition, police said Sunday. The baby was found laying in the alley way of a house in the Ozone Park neighborhood around 10 a.m. A woman who lives next door said she stepped outside her house to empty the trash when…

A newborn baby was found abandoned outside a house in Queens and rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition, police said Sunday.

Police tell neighbors in Ozone Park that newborn found abandoned Sunday morning is expected to survive. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The driver of a stolen car struck a pedestrian in Queens late Saturday night and fled the scene, leaving the injured man to die, police said. The 48-year-old victim was near Bedell Street and Linden Boulevard in the Jamaica neighborhood just before midnight when the driver behind the wheel of a stolen 2016 Ford Mustang GT struck the man, according…

Police in New York City are searching for a man suspected of striking a man with a stolen car and leaving him for dead. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

For many restaurateurs, the decision to ignore coronavirus protocols by some residents in Brooklyn and Queens has led to a desperate plea for people in their neighborhoods to listen to government leaders. “What they’re killing right now is the spirit of business owners. At this point, my heart’s been ripped out, and I really have no more love for...

A Queens man has been indicted for allegedly stabbing his 45-year-old wife to death — brutally knifing her in the chest, neck and torso 27 times — as the woman’s daughter watched in horror, prosecutors announced Thursday. Carmelo Mendoza, 41, was arraigned Thursday following a Queens County grand jury handing up an indictment charging the defendant with murder for fatally…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo mapped out cluster zones in Brooklyn and Queens, as well as those in Rockland, Orange and Broome counties, color coding areas by risk. The red shaded areas see full COVID restrictions reimposed, while orange zoned areas see lesser restrictions, though schools still switch all-remote. Yellow shaded areas have more leeway but some capacity caps are reinstated. Here…

Police in New York City say they’ve shot and killed an armed man wanted on a criminal warrant

Hundreds of businesses in New York City neighborhoods where COVID-19 cases have spiked were closed Thursday as city and state officials moved to quash a coronavirus uptick before it spread more widely. All nonessential businesses in areas designated red zones in parts of Queens and Brooklyn by Gov. Andrew Cuomo were shuttered on Thursday, and houses of worship were ordered…