Queens

NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A Brooklyn man is facing a litany of charges for allegedly staging a car crash as part of an insurance fraud scheme by cutting off another driver on the Belt Parkway, forcing the driver to stop and then reversing into the victim’s car — an incident that was caught on the victim’s dash cam and soon became a viral...

Authorities are investigating the explosion of an SUV in Queens Friday as an accident. According to fire officials and a law enforcement source, an unoccupied vehicle parked on 133rd Street with a propane tank in the trunk exploded. No injuries were reported. The owner of the vehicle stayed at the scene and is cooperating with authorities, according to police sources….

Video posted to the Citizen app showed a heavy emergency response, as bystanders stood behind caution tape to watch the scene unfold. The van that exploded was completely destroyed.

Gaby Acevedo reporting on crews fixing a water and gas service line break in Queens. 

Issues with scanners at some Queens poll sites were reported on Election Day after multiple attempts were required to scan a ballot, according to the NYC Board of Elections.

By now, most voters have chosen their candidate. But how confident are you in the integrity of the electoral process? Since the Jan. 6th riots at the Capitol, there have been countless claims of election meddling. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Fire officials said a man and a woman were found dead inside the attached garage. News 4’s Brittany Miller reports.

News 4’s Marc Santia reports. 

A 13-year-old girl is dead, another teenager critically injured after police say the two were subway surfing in Queens. Authorities responding to a call about people hit by a train at 111th Street shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday found the two girls. They had apparently fallen between two cars while subway surfing on a southbound No. 7 train and were…

It happened at 111th Street in Queens.

A burglary suspect trying to elude police in Queens hit a young woman on her bicycle, killing her, before abandoning the car with two other suspects and running away, authorities say. According to the NYPD, cops tried to stop the pick-up truck near 34th Avenue and 37th Street in Astoria and the driver sped off. It was around 11 p.m….

It happened in Astoria. Tracie Strahan reports.

One of New York City’s airports was just named the best in the country — a little more than a decade after it was blasted by the then-vice president as looking like it belonged in a “third-world country.”

The NYC Department of Buildings shut down a haunted house in Hollis earlier in October, citing unsafe conditions. But on Friday, it got the green light to reopen, which is not sitting well with some visitors who claim they were seriously injured inside. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A haunted house in Queens proved to be too horrific for some who have filed lawsuits claiming they were injured inside the frightful attraction.

A 49-year-old woman could spend up to 15 years in prison for allegedly squatting in a vacant Queens home, the local district attorney’s office said. Laurel Bay was indicted Thursday on burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. She is expected to return to court Nov. 26. If…

Gaby Acevedo reporting on an Uber driver attacked on the job in Queens. 

She bit the driver on the back and punched him a few times before throwing him out, police say. She crashed a short time later and remains on the run.

She bit him, too, according to police.