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A Queens woman does her damage from a third-floor apartment with an ocean view: Water left running for days, flooding the building. Smoke pouring from beneath her front door. Hoarding old junk in the hallway, from bicycles to shopping carts. Taking a sledgehammer to her kitchen cabinets.

Liaison efforts with government agencies help the community feel safer. 

When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray’s richly observed autobiographical drama “Armageddon Time,” about the director’s own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray’s voice quivered as he addressed the crowd. “It’s my story, in a way,” said Gray. “And you guys shared it with me.” “It took…

If convicted David Bonola could face up to 25 years in prison

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge revoked the $500,000 bail Tuesday of Queens event planner Lauren Pazienza after new details emerged about the wine-fueled rampage that preceded her alleged deadly shove of a beloved 87-year-old voice coach.

From Bowen v. Van Bramer, decided Tuesday by the N.Y. intermediate appellate court (Justices Mark Dillon, Francesca Connolly, Valerie Brathwaite Nelson, and Lara Genovesi): In February 2019, amid public criticism, e-commerce giant Amazon cancelled its plans to build a second corporate headquarters in the Long Island City area of Queens.…

Angelina Barini, 43, went on the killing spree in the summer of 2019, meeting clients in motel rooms across New York City, plying them with deadly doses of drugs and robbing them

Sex worker Angela Bairini, 43, of Queens, New York had a history of using substances to incapacitate clients - including one incident in 2019 when she robbed three men after serving them fentanyl-laced drugs

The Seton Hall coach who led New Jersey-based Saint Peter’s to the Elite Eight is originally from Queens, N.Y.

NEW YORK — A handyman accused of having an affair with a married Queens mom and stabbing her to death in her home will not testify before the grand jury considering charges against him, his lawyer said Tuesday.

NEW YORK — It was a crime of passion, two years in the making, against a scandalous backdrop of illicit sex and deceit: A Queens mom and the local handyman were on-and-off lovers until their final, fatal meeting in the basement of her Tudor-style home.