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Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning another woman who looked like her with a sedative-laced cheesecake before stealing from her in a bizarre case that took place in 2016, prosecutors said.

A family is grieving the loss of a 7-year-old boy and a teenager who were killed in a fire at a home in Queens that was sparked by an e-bike’s lithium ion battery, investigators said. The call about the fire at the home on 46th Street in Astoria, with reports of people trapped, came in shortly after 2 p.m....

Be still our cynical hearts. LaGuardia Airport just won a superlative — on the right side of the spectrum. Well, part of LaGuardia. Terminal B at the Queens hub has been named the world’s best new airport terminal, based on a global passenger survey conducted by airport rating firm SKYTRAX, the Port Authority exuberantly announced Tuesday. The state-of-the-art, 1.3 million-square-foot…

A killer in disguise is now in custody and facing murder charges for an execution-style killing on a Queens street, police said.

Police say they have found the man who disguised himself in traditional Hasidic clothing before gunning down a man on a Queens street in 2021. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, was convicted of attempted murder and other charges for poisoning another woman who looked like her with a sedative-laced cheesecake before stealing from her in a bizarre case that took place in 2016, prosecutors said.

A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…

Outrage is growing over how the NYPD treated members of a far-right hate group at a recent protest over a “Drag Story Hour” event in Queens.

The group would then charge drivers $10 to be put to the front of the line to get a fare.

The 22-year-old man suspected of killing three relatives at the family’s Queens home was apprehended hundreds of miles away, out of gas on the side of the road and covered in blood, a senior law enforcement official said. State police in Virginia found the man hours after he allegedly stole the minivan belonging to one of his victims and...

New York City and the New York City Football Club have reached a deal to build a new soccer stadium in Queens.

A man armed with a BB gun hijacked an MTA bus in Queens early Thursday — and crashed the vehicle into a utility pole after the driver jumped out a window a few blocks earlier, according to police. After surveillance video showed the man trying (and failing) to wave down a bus in Cambria Heights, authorities said the suspect ran…

The man allegedly started the fire after the restaurant messed up his order of chicken biryani.

New video from the FDNY shows the moments a man allegedly torched a Queens restaurant after his order — chicken biryani, specifically — came out wrong, authorities say.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

Alison Russo-Elling , 61, was a World Trade Center first responder and 25-year veteran EMS member who was stabbed in a come-from-behind attack by a stranger when she went to get food by her Astoria stationhouse. She is survived by a daughter.

An on-duty EMS lieutenant was killed in an apparent random and unprovoked stabbing attack outside the Queens stationhouse where she worked, officials said.

The rap star has to stay away from the two sisters at the heart of the 2018 case out of Queens and complete 15 days of community service.

Authorities on Monday were still looking for the woman who allegedly ran over a 59-year-old bystander in a walker outside a Queens deli, killing him, after brawling with another woman, according to police. Video from inside Rohan Deli in Far Rockaway appears to show the two women get into a shouting match around 7 a.m. Saturday. The women move outside…

The family of the yellow cab driver found dead after a fatal blow to the head were flanked by cabbies Sunday morning as taxi union leaders pleaded for someone to come forward with information that would lead to an arrest in the tragic case. More than 24 hours after the Bronx father of four stopped his taxi mini-van for the…