Queens

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…

NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports from East Elmhurst. 

NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports. 

A 16-year-old teenage boy was arrested in connection to a shooting on Saturday that left a 17-year-old girl dead in Queens, police said. Police said the 911 call came in just after 5 p.m. Saturday that a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head inside a residence on Clover Place. The young victim, later identified as Deaza Barkley, from Brooklyn,…

An overnight fire possibly sparked in the basement of a Queens home left a family of three dead. FDNY officials said three people were pulled from the Bayside home on 208th Street after crews rushed to the home around 2:40 a.m. Longtime neighbors said a mother and her two adult children lived in the home for decades. Fire officials believe…

City officials reported three deaths from an overnight house fire in Bayside, Queens. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports. 

A Queens family is mourning the loss of a 14-year-old boy killed in a stabbing fight between two groups of teens. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

Police say a teenage boy was critical after a sidewalk knife fight in Queens. NBC New York’s Chris Jose reports. 

There’s new information in a Queens murder mystery, after a realtor was found hog-tied and dumped along the Clearview Expressway on Tuesday. His killer was still on the loose Friday evening. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The man whose body was found hog-tied and dumped in the grass off a Queens highway has been identified as a real estate agent, as investigators turn their focus to why he was killed and who may have done it.

The victim and his friends had been horsing around, officials said, and one of his friends pushed him, causing him to land on the fence. Melissa Colorado with the details for NBC New York. 

The body of a man was found Tuesday morning on the side of the Clearview Expressway in Bayside, where the roadway intersects with Cunningham Park. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

A person was rushed to the hospital after having been impaled on a fence in Queens, according to officials.

A dead man was found hog-tied in the grass off a Queens highway Tuesday, according to law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation. The discovery was made just feet away from the Clearview Expressway and Union Turnpike in Bayside around 9 a.m. The body was found in a grassy area off the busy roadway, where it intersects with Cunningham…