Police are investigating a rape in Woodhaven, Queens late Wednesday night on a quiet residential block.

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.

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.

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.

In the most serious attack, 18-year-old Jagmohan Singh Premi had his turban ripped off at Richmond Hill High School. His injuries were so bad, he had to be hospitalized.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A woman was robbed and raped at gunpoint in Ozone Park in Queens on Monday, according to police.The woman was approached by a man with a silver gun on 123rd street after she left an ATM machine.

Published by WNBC on August 25, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the breakfast was nowhere near the 15th State Senate District, which stretches from Ozone Park and Howard Beach to Glendale and Maspeth.

Published by New York Times on August 12, 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.

On Friday night, two traffic cones and a barrel linked by yellow police tape marked the place where the body was found, near the Sikh Cultural Society, which doubles as a community center and a prayer hall for the neighborhood’s large Sikh population.

Published by New York Times on August 9, 2008.

A man who was known to have begged for cash on street corners in Richmond Hill, Queens, was found dead about 5:40 a.m. Friday on a sidewalk next to a Sikh temple on 97th Avenue near 118th Street, the authorities said.

Published by New York Times on August 9, 2008.

Most often, the man would spend the rest of his day begging at the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue, Mr. Singh said. Some of the money he received he sent to his family in India, and some of it he spent on alcohol, Mr. Singh said.

Published by New York Times on August 9, 2008.

A man who was known to have begged for cash on street corners in Richmond Hill, Queens, was found dead about 5:40 a.m. Friday on a sidewalk next to a Sikh temple on 97th Avenue near 118th Street, the authorities said.

Published by New York Times on August 9, 2008.

Worshipers attending morning prayers at the Sikh Cultural Society in Richmond Hill were stunned to discover the lifeless body on 118th St.

Published by New York Daily News on August 9, 2008.

A homeless man was found murdered in front of a Sikh temple in the Richmond Hill section of Queens.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 8, 2008.

The New York State Board of Elections has ruled that Jun Policarpio, a Queens congressional candidate accused of forging petition signatures, will not be allowed on the Republican ballot.

Published by New York Sun on August 8, 2008.

Police got the call before 6 a.m. that a man was dead on the sidewalk outside a Sikh temple at 117th Street off 95th Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 8, 2008.

Police in Queens are investigating the beating death of a homeless man early Friday. The man was found dead outside the Gurdwara Sikh Temple in South Richmond Hill, police said.

Published by WNBC on August 8, 2008.

The unlicensed speed demon raced around a car, blew through a red light at 69th Rd. and the Grand Central Parkway service road and ripped the Kew Gardens couple's 2004 Acura in two.

Published by New York Daily News on August 7, 2008.

The Tampa investigation which originally ensnared McMahon, Alite and reputed Gambino captain Ronald "One Arm" Trucchio of Ozone Park focused on a criminal band that investigators said evolved in Queens in the 1980s and engaged in car theft, gambling and drug dealing. The gang, led by Alite, reported to Trucchio, according to prosecutors. One witness told prosecutors "Junior" Gotti was part of the gang.

Published by amNY.com on August 7, 2008.

According to a report by research firm PropertyShark, the five New York City ZIP codes with the most July foreclosures were all in Queens, with the top four all in the neighborhoods of Jamaica, South Jamaica, Hollis and St. Albans. A total of 56 homes entered foreclosure last month in those neighborhoods.

Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.

According to a report by research firm PropertyShark, the five New York City ZIP codes with the most July foreclosures were all in Queens, with the top four all in the neighborhoods of Jamaica, South Jamaica, Hollis and St. Albans. A total of 56 homes entered foreclosure last month in those neighborhoods.

Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.

People took to the streets Tuesday night in a neighborhood that has seen a series of sexual assaults in recent months that remain unsolved. It wasn’t just any typical night out against crime celebration in South Jamaica.

Published by WNBC on August 6, 2008.

The Kims, who live in Kew Gardens, had the green light on 69th Road and were moving through the intersection when Chubalashvili, heading east on the service road, pulled around a car stopped in front of him at the red light, authorities said.

Published by amNY.com on August 5, 2008.

A developing story in Queens where police are searching for a possible suspect wanted in a series of sexual assaults.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 4, 2008.

Scala, the son of a baker, grew up in Ozone Park, where his parents instilled the core values of hard work, sacrifice and earning an honest dollar.

Published by New York Daily News on August 3, 2008.

The victim bravely fought off her attacker on 145th St. in Jamaica about 12:20 a.m. Friday. The man slashed her in the hand and knocked her to the ground before he ran off, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 2, 2008.

Teacher Leonard Cohen of Richmond Hill High School was recovering from brain surgery in February 2007 when a colleague spotted him on a local newscast - being interviewed about his delayed flight to Cancun.

Published by New York Daily News on August 2, 2008.

I wasn’t the only one visiting pools outside my own neighborhood that day. Alejandra Aguilera and her two children, 12 and 14, regularly travel from Ozone Park, Queens, to Tony Dapolito, which features a nine-foot-deep diving pool (the most popular type of dive being the cannonball).

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

"Ever since I was born, I've been a cricket player," said Azurdeen Mohammed, 17, a Guyanese graduate from Forest Hills High School who plays for the Richmond Hill Superstars.

Published by New York Daily News on July 30, 2008.