Muhammad Khan, 57, of the Islamic Circle of North America in Jamaica, was charged Friday with sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with a pair of attacks in September and October of last year, a police source said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

A PROPOSED 20-story hotel and apartment building in Kew Gardens, Queens, has come to be known among some of its opponents as the Pasta Lovers Hotel, though it is yet to be built or even named. Many of those critics live in an eight-story co-op building that would lie in the hotel’s shadow.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

This is not the first time elevated grates have been tried. (An example of how not to do it can be found Hillside Avenue and 148th Street: an unforgiving monolith of reinforced concrete, 2 feet high and 35 feet long.)

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

10 a.m. Walk Against Rape begins at 103-23 103rd Ave., South Ozone Park and continues to the 103rd Precinct, 168-02 91 St., Queens.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

9:30 a.m. M.T.A. officials unveil new sidewalk furniture that is supposed to prevent floodwaters from entering the subway system, on the sidewalk Sutphin Boulevard and Hillside Avenue, Jamaica.

Published by The New York Observer on September 18, 2008.

The state launched the probe in May after The Post reported that MediSys - the parent company of Jamaica, Flushing and Brookdale hospitals - was padding the pockets of top execs without disclosing the pay as required.

Published by New York Post on September 14, 2008.

\A Queens man was killed after a masked shooter came out from behind a car and fired off a series of bullets. Mike Stith, a father of three with another on the way, was with some friends on a Jamaica street early Saturday when the shooter appeared.

Published by WNBC on September 14, 2008.

Mike Stith, a father of three with another on the way, was with some friends on a Jamaica street early Saturday when the shooter appeared.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 14, 2008.

Mike Stith, 28, was hanging out with friends on a tree-lined street in Jamaica about 4 a.m. Saturday when the shooter emerged from behind a car on 116th Drive.

Published by New York Daily News on September 13, 2008.

The 15-term lawmaker from South Ozone Park was accused Wednesday of collecting some $500,000 from a hospital and other entities in exchange for political favors.

Published by New York Post on September 13, 2008.

The complaint against the assemblyman described two hospitals that were vying for ownership of a third hospital. Hospital systems said the scenario matches that of MediSys Health Network and North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, which have been jockeying in recent months for ownership of Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica and St. John's Queens Hospital in Elmhurst, according to hospital executives.

Published by New York Sun on September 12, 2008.

David Rosen, chief executive of Jamaica, Brookdale and Flushing hospitals, is widely believed to be the unnamed hospital executive in the criminal complaint that charges Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio solicited payments in return for helping win more money from the state.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 12, 2008.

Anthony Seminerio, 73, who has represented South Ozone Park since 1978 and often boasted he was "John Gotti's assemblyman," was charged with running a secret consulting firm through which he pocketed the cash in return for peddling influence in Albany.

Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.

A criminal complaint is expected to be unsealed this afternoon against Anthony Seminerio, 73, a former city corrections officer who has held his Richmond Hill seat since 1978.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 10, 2008.

Henry Levine, 91, was walking across Main Street in Briarwood when a 2003 Ford Taurus travelling hit him shortly after 5:00 p.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 9, 2008.

BRIARWOOD (WABC) -- An eighth grader was struck by a hit and run vehicle as she walked to school in the Briarwood section of Queens

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 5, 2008.

PA police charged Payano, 30, of South Ozone Park, with toll evasion and license plate destruction. The rear license plate was bent, partially concealing its markings, Coleman said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

The NYPD said it does not think the attack is related to the other rape patterns in Jamaica Springfield Gardens and St. Albans sections of Queens.

Published by WNBC on September 4, 2008.

The NYPD said it does not think the attack is related to the other rape patterns in Jamaica Springfield Gardens and St. Albans sections of Queens.

Published by WNBC on September 4, 2008.

Martha Espinoza bought her house in Jamaica in Jan. 2005 and she quickly found an assortment of problems.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 4, 2008.

This August, of the 15 city zip codes with the most foreclosures, Queens claims 14, touching neighborhoods like Jamaica, Hollis, Howard Beach and Ozone Park. (Staten Island claims the 15th.)

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

This August, of the 15 city zip codes with the most foreclosures, Queens claims 14, touching neighborhoods like Jamaica, Hollis, Howard Beach and Ozone Park. (Staten Island claims the 15th.)

Published by The New York Observer on September 3, 2008.

The stores served mostly minority customers: Caribbeans and African-Americans in Brooklyn and Jamaica, Queens, and Puerto Ricans and blacks in the Bronx. (By the early 1980s, some Koreans had begun to set up produce stores in upper-middle-class neighborhoods in Manhattan and Queens and suburban communities on Long Island and upstate.)

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

The kids won a bet to read twice as many books as last summer so a New York City librarian did what she promised -- she cut off her hair. Sueli Zaqem made the bet with the children in her summer reading program at the Hollis, Queens, library.

Published by WNBC on August 29, 2008.

If you are a believer of "great things come in small packages," then Kew Gardens might be your kind of neighborhood. This triangular-shaped enclave has many conveniences of city life, yet retains a small-town feel.

Published by amNY.com on August 28, 2008.

The bandit is also a suspect in two robberies in July of Chase branches in St. Albans and Flushing, both in Queens.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 28, 2008.

Nassau police have declined to reveal how much money he has stolen in order to discourage copycats. The bandit is also a suspect in two robberies in July of Chase branches in St. Albans and Flushing, both in Queens.

Published by WNBC on August 28, 2008.

One prototype has already been installed on Hillside Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, to be unveiled soon. It's bound to be an improvement over the MTA's short-term fix in the neighborhood: laying down blue tarp over the grates, weighed down with buckets of cement.

Published by NY1 on August 27, 2008.

Savicki, 38, said his former girlfriend didn't know anyone in New York but decided to come here because she had read about a shelter called Dove House in Jamaica, Queens, that would give her a bed and provide her with welfare benefits.

Published by New York Post on August 27, 2008.

Genovese was stabbed to death as she walked toward her Kew Gardens apartment around 3 a.m. -- her screams going unanswered by residents who ignored her cries for help.

Published by amNY.com on August 27, 2008.

With detectives working overtime to solve two separate rape patterns just a few miles away, Shameen Karim was visibly shaken upon hearing the news that a sexual predator struck overnight in her own neighborhood of south Richmond Hill.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 25, 2008.

There are no arrests at this time. Police say the incident took place at 1:45 a.m. in the Richmond Hill section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 25, 2008.

In fact, the two men are scheduled to appear together this afternoon at a press conference at Mr. Baldeo’s office in the Richmond Hill section of Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Toemirin Wongsonadi, 56, of Jamaica, took advantage of his day job hauling bags of money from Queens businesses to the central safe for Dunbar Armored, prosecutors said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 22, 2008.

11 a.m. LIRR president discusses this weekend's service disruptions at LIRR Headquarters, 93-02 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica.

Published by The New York Observer on August 20, 2008.

Police have been searching for two men behind 14 attacks since November in Jamaica, Saint Albans, and Springfield Gardens.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 19, 2008.

The person the police are questioning is just 15-years-old. The teenage boy was identified by one woman and he has been transferred from the 113 pct in Jamaica to the Special Victims Unit in Forest Hills for possible lineups and more witness identifications, according to police.

Published by WNBC on August 19, 2008.

“We're like sitting ducks,” Gillian Eversley, who lives in St. Albans, said last week. "They're predators and they've been getting away with it.”Police have stepped up their presence in the area and distributed sketches in hopes of catching both rape suspects.

Published by WNBC on August 19, 2008.

Police have been searching for two men behind 14 attacks since November in Jamaica, Saint Albans, and Springfield Gardens.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 19, 2008.

A seemingly simple bus ride has been a frightening trip in places like Jamaica and Springfield Gardens, Queens, where two rapists have been targeting women at bus stops for months.

Published by WNBC on August 19, 2008.

On August 1, the predator targeted an 18-year-old woman near 145th Street in Jamaica.

Published by WNBC on August 17, 2008.

The incident happened on 124th Street in South Ozone Park. Authorities say Chisolm returned to the apartment to retrieve his belongings after being away for several weeks.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 17, 2008.

The violence unfolded after the victim, Rae Chisolm, 38, went to the first-floor flat on 124th St. in South Ozone Park about noon after being away for several weeks.

Published by New York Daily News on August 17, 2008.

Police say the shots were fired on 196th Street in the St. Albans section of Queens just after 2:15 a.m. The suspect, a female off-duty corrections officer, allegedly fled the scene.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 14, 2008.

Camacho's Kew Gardens courtroom handles cases involving both criminal and domestic violence charges.

Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.

Pedro Ayala, 21, asked Veronica Rivera, the mother of his 6-month-old son, to bring the child to his Jamaica, Queens, apartment Monday night because he had time off from his job at a bowling alley, Rivera's mother, Lucy Suarez, said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.

Then there was Rich, of Jamaica, Queens, who graduated from the U.S. Recovery Bureau in spite of a 1995 sodomy arrest.

Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.

To date, that agenda has focused around rezonings of areas such as Manhattan’s far West Side, Jamaica and the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront, where the city allows private landowners to develop thousands of housing units and millions of feet of office space.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

Escalators at the 34th Street-Herald Square and Roosevelt Island stations in Manhattan and the Jamaica-Van Wyck and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer stations in Queens were to begin operating at variable speed, as part of a pilot program to save energy and reduce wear and tear on escalator components.

Published by New York Times on August 11, 2008.

The 2000 Census showed that Hartford had a West Indian population of about 10,000, with more than 8,000 of those from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.

Published by New York Times on August 10, 2008.