Queens

A killer in disguise is now in custody and facing murder charges for an execution-style killing on a Queens street, police said.

Police say they have found the man who disguised himself in traditional Hasidic clothing before gunning down a man on a Queens street in 2021. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was convicted of attempted murder and other charges for poisoning another woman who looked like her with a sedative-laced cheesecake before stealing from her in a bizarre case that took place in 2016, prosecutors said.

A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…

Outrage is growing over how the NYPD treated members of a far-right hate group at a recent protest over a “Drag Story Hour” event in Queens.

The group would then charge drivers $10 to be put to the front of the line to get a fare.

New York City and the New York City Football Club have reached a deal to build a new soccer stadium in Queens.

The man allegedly started the fire after the restaurant messed up his order of chicken biryani.

New video from the FDNY shows the moments a man allegedly torched a Queens restaurant after his order — chicken biryani, specifically — came out wrong, authorities say.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

Alison Russo-Elling , 61, was a World Trade Center first responder and 25-year veteran EMS member who was stabbed in a come-from-behind attack by a stranger when she went to get food by her Astoria stationhouse. She is survived by a daughter.

The rap star has to stay away from the two sisters at the heart of the 2018 case out of Queens and complete 15 days of community service.

Roddy Ricch was arrested on gun charges Saturday night, hours before he was scheduled to take the stage at Governors Ball. The NYPD said the 23-year-old was arrested after a security check of his tour bus revealed a gun under a seat and large capacity magazine. The Los Angeles-based rapper was in town for this weekend’s Governors Ball, where...

A handyman-turned-lover arrested in the horrific killing of a Queens mother admitted to sending a threatening text from Gaal’s phone to her husband Saturday morning, believed to be an effort to take suspicion away from himself

A 44-year-old handyman has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Queens mother in her own home as her teenage son sat upstairs last week, “ruthlessly and brutally” stabbing her more than 55 times before putting her body in her son’s hockey bag and leaving the duffel on the side of a road, police executives said Thursday. David Bonola, who is…

The arrest comes a day after a Texas man was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot.

A high-speed Amtrak train headed from Boston to Washington with more than 100 passengers lost power and got stuck in New York City for almost seven hours Monday, railroad officials said. The Acela train left Boston on time at 5:05 a.m. but got stuck in the Hunters Point neighborhood of Queens at 8:37 a.m. “due to a power loss of…

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…