Queens

It took five stitches to close Lizette’s stab wound, which almost punctured her lung.

Police say they have arrested the woman accused of attacking a Queens mother with a kitchen knife in the bathroom stall at Elmhurst Hospital. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

Authorities are looking for a person who attacked a 7-year-old boy in front of his mother inside a Queens subway station last month, then threatened both of them a knife before running off. According to the NYPD, the boy and his 37-year-old mom were on a northbound F train platform in the 21st Street-Queensbridge station in Astoria around lunchtime Sunday,…

Police want your help finding a suspect they say attacked a 7-year-old boy who was with his mother in a Queens subway station.

Police are looking for a suspect in a violent robbery at a funeral home in Harlem. 

A Queens community was left heartbroken after the owner of a local auto shop was found dead inside his business, and the mysterious death has police searching for clues. Flowers and a model car adorned the front gate of Mekniko Autoworks in Whitestone on Tuesday, but it was the police van that caught the attention of neighbors and customers. On…

An investigation is underway after the owner of an auto shop was found dead inside his business in Whitestone. Officials said the 65-year-old victim had cuts on his arm and neck. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of two bodies in a Queens home. Police responding to a call about a person shot inside a home on 80th Street found a 57-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. They also found an 88-year-old woman dead. She had not been shot. The medical...

No. 7 train service is facing delays Thursday afternoon after a person was struck by a train in Corona, according to MTA officials. Trains are running with ‘severe’ delays in both directions, the MTA said. Hudson Yards-bound 7 trains are running express service from Flushing-Main St to 74 St-Broadway. Some Flushing-bound 7 trains are ended at Queensboro Plaza. Hudson Yards-bound…

A giant plume of black smoke covered a neighborhood in Queens as firefighters rushed to put out an afternoon fire. The fire triggered a 3-alarm response from the FDNY, which responded to an auto body shop on 36th Avenue in Willets Point around 4:30 p.m. As crews worked to get control of the fire, the thick black smoke shooting up…

Students complained of eye irritation and breathing difficulties after pepper spray was released in the cafeteria at a Queens high school. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports. 

A suspect has been arrested after allegedly punching a seven-months pregnant woman in the face while riding the subway in Queens, police said.

More than two dozen students and staff members were impacted in a pepper spray incident at a Queens high school on Friday, according to police and fire officials.

A seven-months pregnant woman was punched in the face by a stranger as she used her phone on a subway in Queens last week, police and law enforcement sources say. The woman was on a southbound J train at the time of the rush hour attack on Feb. 25 at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station. Police say it was unprovoked....

Two teachers who worked at the same Queens school had never really crossed paths, until one of them saw a Facebook post saying the other urgently needed a kidney.

It is an uplifting story about selflessness: When a teacher in Queens came across a Facebook post about a colleague at her school needing a kidney, she decided to become a living donor, even though the two barely knew each other. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

One of the men convicted in the 2002 murder of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay in New York City was stabbed at a Brooklyn lockup, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Authorities are asking the public for information that may lead to the solving of a 2020 cold case murder of a correction officer in Queens. Off-duty officer John Jeff was found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds in South Jamaica on Aug. 15, 2020 at the corner of Defoe and Ridgedale Streets in Springfield Gardens. Medics transported the 28-year-old to Jamaica…

A correction officer was killed by a gunman while he was off-duty, gunned down in the passenger seat of a car. New surveillance video released by the Queens DA’s office captured the deadly confrontation, as the search for the killer continues. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

A massive tree fell on a house in East Elmhurst, apparently due to strong winds, leaving extensive damage behind. The quiet Queens neighborhood where this took place is about a mile away from LaGuardia airport. Strong winds overnight and this morning apparently led to the tree being lifted out of its roots and falling onto the nearby home. According to…