NYC Easter morning fire kills 3, leaves 4 others injured: cops

NYPost.com (Metro) 4/20 6:15A Larry Celona, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

A 911 call sent firefighters to 8725 Chevy Chase St. in Jamaica Estates shortly before 1:40 a.m. for the three-alarm blaze.

‘Ghost Face' man wanted for raping woman in Queens at knifepoint: NYPD

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 4/14 9:41A NBC New York Staff

Police want to find a man they say raped a 50-year-old woman at knifepoint last week in a Queens neighborhood in the middle of the night. The man seen in surveillance images wearing a “Ghost Face” sweater from the “Scream” movies allegedly raped...

President Trump’s childhood home in NYC sells at steep discount — after being overrun by feral cats

NYPost.com (Business) 3/27 10:26A Josh Kosman

The price for the Tudor-style residence in the leafy Jamaica Estates enclave in Queens is less than half of the $2.14 million it previously fetched in 2017.

Judge appoints receiver for Chetrit-owned apartment complex in Queens

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 3/26 7:28A Aaron Elstein

A federal judge appointed a receiver to manage two market-rate apartment buildings in Queens after their owner, Meyer Chetrit, fell behind on nearly $2 million in utility bills and risks putting thousands of residents in the dark. The appointment...

City's hospitals try to tackle housing with mixed success

CrainsNewYork.com (Energy & Utilities) 3/20 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

A building with three-bedroom apartments in a refurbished tuberculosis treatment center in Jamaica. Studio apartments with a back garden on an old parking lot in Bed-Stuy. A residence with one-bedroom units and a community health clinic on the...

State awards more than $50M to 4 city affordable housing projects

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 3/18 8:28A Eddie Small

A quartet of affordable housing projects in the city are getting a funding boost of more than $50 million total. The money for the outer-borough developments comes from federal and state low-income housing tax credits, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep....

Pregnant woman punched in face on rush-hour NYC subway train, sources say

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 3/5 6:51A Marc Santia

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...

Northwell spends big on lobbyists as it seeks Upper East Side expansion

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 3/5 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

The state’s largest health care system was also one of the biggest spenders on lobbyists trying to influence city government last year. Northwell Health, a New Hyde Park-based provider network with 21 hospitals and over 800 clinics in the region,...

Cyber crooks busted in NYC for stealing, reselling nearly 1K tickets for $635K, including screwing...

NYPost.com (Metro) 3/3 8:56A Amanda Woods

Tyrone Rose, 20, of Kingston, Jamaica, and Shamara P. Simmons, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, were busted in connection to the scam that raked in $635,000 from June 2022 and July 2023, according to the Queens DA’s Office.

As Adams plots big housing moves, Hochul pulls back

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 2/18 5:06A Eddie Small, Nick Garber

New York is still expensive, and housing is still one of the main reasons why, so it is unsurprising that the issue will continue commanding attention in 2025. But the housing agenda at the city level looks more ambitious than its Albany...

Deals of the Day: Feb. 5

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 2/5 7:28A Julianne Cuba, C. J. Hughes, Edd

Leases Stellar Management inks lease with community health center firm Address: 44 W. 28th St., Manhattan Landlord: Stellar Management Tenant: Community Healthcare Network Lease size: 12,083 square feet Asset type: Office Brokers: CBRE's Caroline...

Deals of the Day: Feb. 3

CrainsNewYork.com (Politics) 2/3 6:41A Eddie Small, C. J. Hughes, Julia

Leases BXP lands new tenant in GM Building Address: 767 Fifth Ave., Manhattan Landlord: BXP Tenant: GoldenTree Asset Management Lease size: 60,000 square feet Lease length: 15 years Asset type: Office Brokers: CBRE's Peter Turchin, Ben Friedland,...

Landlord using rental concessions to abuse 421-a benefits at Jamaica project, suit claims

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 1/24 8:48A Eddie Small

A landlord is abusing the state's polarizing 421-a affordable housing tax break at its recently completed residential project in Jamaica, a new lawsuit claims. Midtown-based developer Shorewood Real Estate Group has received millions of dollars...

89-unit mixed-use building planned for Jamaica

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 1/24 1:03A Julianne Cuba

An almost-100 unit building is proposed for Downtown Jamaica, records show, just a few blocks from where hundreds of new apartments are slated to come online in the same Queens neighborhood. Records show that Ami Weinstock, whose affiliation with...

Flushing Hospital continues to increase psychiatric capacity with $8.5M project

CrainsNewYork.com (Technology) 1/23 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Flushing Hospital Medical Center is adding to its array of psychiatric beds with the planned addition of an emergency unit for people in acute mental health crisis. The push complements a multi-year effort to restore longer-term beds that were...