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The article informs that robbery at a T-Mobile store in Queens, New York City that led to the death of a police detective, was a two-man operation including Christopher Ransom, synchronized, preplanned and the duo's second in a week, as of February 2019.

The article focuses on the division of class, race, and ethnicity among New Yorkers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. It states that Hurricane Sandy just made the diversity even worse despite the temporal unity shown between volunteers and victims for both parties. It says that the disaster reliefs were rendered for both sides and moments of understanding emerged along the boundaries of culture and class.

The article reports on the transformation of the Congregation Tifereth Israel in Corona in New York City into the spiritual home. It notes that the known oldest synagogue was transformed by charismatic kosher butcher and rabbi Amnon Khaimov and his wife Esther into the spiritual home of community of impoverished Bukharan Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. It states that the project for the conservancy established the building's original 1911 architectural plans.

CORRECTION APPENDED The field for the Democratic nomination in the newly redrawn Sixth Congressional District in Queens just became a little narrower. Jeffrey Gottlieb, a clerk for the city's Board of Elections and a longtime, if understated, behind-the-scenes fixture in Queens Democratic political circles, has withdrawn from the race, according to a person involved in the campaign who had not been authorized to speak about it publicly. The move came days after Mr. Gottlieb filed the signatures he had collected with the city to get on the ballot (a minimum of 938 valid signatures were required). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new pedestrian plaza on 37th Road in Jackson Heights, in the heart of Little India, is an oasis of calm, a much-needed stretch of open space in a traffic-glutted area of Queens. Or, it is a glaring example of disastrous city planning, a blighted, unlovely esplanade that has all but decimated commerce in the neighborhood. It depends on whom you ask. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A steady ribbon of steam rose from a stainless steel pot at a park in Queens, a small flame licking at its underside. Every so often, Washington Giovanni Cardenas lifted the lid to pluck a round morsel from the roiling water. Timing was important: undercooked, the objects would be flat; overcooked, the casing could melt. Two minutes was the magic number. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every summer for the past few decades, Shellbank Basin in Howard Beach, Queens, is transformed into a post-apocalyptic scene of marine carnage: thousands of baitfish and the fish that prey on them die in the waterway, belly up like a preschooler's forgotten goldfish. But that is not the worst part: there is little current, so the corpses stick around. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Updated 12:03 a.m. A gunman killed two people - one on a crowded city bus - in Queens on Friday afternoon, the authorities said. The police said that when they arrested a suspect, he told them he ''had a beef to settle.'' One of the victims was his girlfriend's son. He apparently did not know the other one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The week before they abducted their eight children from a foster care center in Queens, Nephra and Shanel Payne stocked up at Costco on supplies and dry goods, like diapers and infant formula for Nefertiti, their 11-month-old daughter, graham crackers and her favorite drink, pear juice. They stashed family photos and important documents in a storage facility and crammed a basketball and a football -- essential for traveling with a Little League team's worth of boys -- into their car. They had just been told, they said, that New York City's child welfare agency was planning to put their children, who had been in foster care for nearly three years, up for adoption rather than reuniting them with their parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Manhattan couple who slipped their eight children out the back of a foster care agency in Queens and absconded with them for a week pleaded guilty on Tuesday to second-degree custodial interference. Judge Elisa Koenderman of Queens Criminal Court indicated she would sentence each parent to 90 days in jail and three years' probation. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 10. Taking into account time served, their lawyer said he expected them to spend a little more than a month longer in jail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erika Brown was waiting for her 16-year-old daughter to return from the chicken and pizza restaurant down the street around 9 p.m. Thursday when a man banged loudly on her door, shouting. Ms. Brown could make out only a few words -- her daughter's name, something about a man, something about a knife. Out her window, she saw a crowd gathered outside the restaurant, the scene lit with the glow of police cars. The painful flood of details followed as Ms. Brown ran to the restaurant. Her daughter Cyan, a high school sophomore, who everyone says looks just like her mother, had apparently been harassed while ordering food, by a group of neighborhood men who later chased her into the subway. One of the men, Thomas Winston, 29, now lay dead on the street, stabbed in the chest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]