Tag Archives: Queens

QUEENS: Subway Derails, Multiple Injuries

A Manhattan-bound F train derailed today in Woodside, Queens. Many passengers were evacuated via a tunnel hatch to the street. At least 19 people were hurt after a train derailed near a Queens subway station on Friday, officials said. About 1,000 people were riding the Manhattan-bound F train when it slid off the track near the station at Broadway and …

Read More »

Queens Street To Be Named For PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford And Son Morty

JMG reader Brandon tips us that street in front of the former Queens home of late PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford and her son Morty Manford will be renamed their honor. Final approval of the change is expected before the naming ceremony next weekend. Jeanne passed away in January 2013 at the age of 92. Morty Manford, an assistant New York …

Read More »

QUEENS: Irish Drag Activist Panti Bliss Joins Gay-Inclusive St. Patty’s Parade

Many more photos are at Panti’s Twitter page. Also marching in today’s parade were NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and members of the City Council, all of whom are boycotting the main parade in Manhattan for banning gay groups from participating.

Read More »

Quote Of The Day – Maureen Dowd

“I have long been opposed to gays marching in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. It isn’t because my father was a past national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which ran the parade for a century and started the rule that no gays need apply. Faith and begorrah, heaven knows I have nothing against gays. I …

Read More »

Bill Donohue Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

“There is a growing contempt for tolerance and diversity in the homosexual community, and among their supporters, especially in New York. The latest example is the ruling by the New York City Council Speaker banning an official City Council presence, banner, and Sergeant-at-Arms in this year’s march. When a government agent prohibits the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, a tradition …

Read More »

NYC Council To Boycott St. Patty’s Parade

“St. Patrick’s Day has traditionally been a day when everyone can be Irish. Unfortunately, in New York City the Hibernians seem to have disavowed that old Irish tradition and have not allow LGBT people to march in the 5th Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade under their own banner for more than 20 years. In Ireland, not only do gay groups …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Irish Drag Queen Panti Bliss To March In Gay-Inclusive Parade

Fantastic news. Irish drag performer and activist Rory O’Neil, whose anti-homophobia speech as Panti Bliss went globally viral, will march in the gay-inclusive St. Pat’s For All Parade in Queens this Sunday. Via press release: Mayor de Blasio, who has marched in the St. Pat’s for All Parade for many years, will be joined by Members of Congress Caroline Maloney …

Read More »

Seniors Make Deal With Queens McD’s

Last week a McDonald’s in Queens made headlines after calling the police to evict senior citizens that were spending their days taking up all the restaurant’s tables. The New York Daily News now reports that McDonald’s management and the seniors have come to an agreement. It’s a McDeal. A group of Korean senior citizens and the manager of a McDonald’s …

Read More »

Headline Of The Day

This story has been all over the NYC blogs this week and got more traction yesterday from the New York Times. Shortly after New Year’s Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant. …

Read More »

Quote Of The Day – John Scarpa

“A sentence of 25 years to life is an incredibly long period of time, judge. Shouldn’t that be reserved for people who are guilty of killing certain classes of individuals? Who is the victim in this case? Is the victim a person in the higher end of the community? Amanda was engaged in a life of prostitution, life of drug …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Man Stabbed To Death After Allegedly Blowing A Kiss To His Killer

New York City police have arrested a 22 year-old man who says he stabbed another man to death on a Queens street because the victim blew him a kiss. The New York Post reports: Steven Torres, 22, of the Bronx, went berserk and stabbed 69-year-old Ever Orozco in the throat and chest, on 90th Street in Elmhurst around 1 p.m., …

Read More »

QUEENS: Interracial Married Straight Couple Gay Bashed By Three Thugs

On Saturday a married straight interracial couple was attacked in Long Island City, Queens by three thugs who shouted homophobic slurs and racial epithets. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel say they and a gay friend had been celebrating Billie James-Vogel’s 40th birthday in Long Island City and were attacked when they left the bar. They say three men from a nearby …

Read More »

Anti-Violence Project Reacts To Anti-Gay Incident On New York City Subway

From their Facebook page: The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) is deeply disturbed by video footage that was shot and posted online by a concerned witness, who has been in touch with AVP about this incident, and who documented a number of incidents of hate violence on a Queens-bound F train on Sunday, June 30th at around 11:45 pm. …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Young Pride Goers Harassed And Assaulted On Subway

My pal Damian alerts us to a video taken as two men harassed and then assaulted a group of young New York City Pride goers on the subway. From the clip’s description: On Sunday, June 30th at around 11:45 PM, I was riding home on the Queens-bound F train following a day of LGBT Pride festivities. Two men were loudly …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Gay Councilman Slams Queens Park Giveaway To Leader Of Anti-Gay Arab Nation

“I was shocked to read in the New York Times that the Bloomberg Administration is negotiating to give NYC parkland away to Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, an oil billionaire that helps rule a country where gays or lesbians is a crime punishable by death. This is outrageous. This is also a country where gay and lesbian people could be …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Police Make Arrest In Strangling Murder Of Queens Gay Man

The NYPD has made an arrest in the murder of Queens school teacher David Rangel, who was found strangled in his home in January. Cecil Golden, 20, was charged Tuesday with the murder of David Rangel, 53 — who was found choked to death in his Jackson Heights apartment on Jan. 27, the sources said. Investigators initially suspected that Rangel …

Read More »

Serial Killer Stalking NYC Gay Men?

The NYPD and openly gay NYC Councilman Daniel Dromm are urging caution after a gay man was found strangled in a Queens hotel room this weekend. Three gay men have been murdered in New York City in the last three weeks. Police say that two of the men appear to have met their killers online.  “It’s frightening,” said City Councilman …

Read More »

NEW YORK CITY: Police Suspect Online Hook-Up In Murder Of Queens Gay Man

Queens middle school teacher David Rangel, 53, was found strangled in his apartment this weekend. Police suspect that Rangel may have met his killer online and are inspecting his computer’s history. Rangel taught Spanish to seventh and eighth graders at the Paul Klapper School (P.S./M.S. 219) in Flushing, where the flag flew at half-mast Monday. “Everyone was walking around, mourning,” …

Read More »

Another Subway Pushing Death In NYC

For the second time this month, a New York City subway passenger has died after being pushed onto the tracks. The victim, who was reportedly pushed from behind by a mumbling woman, has not yet been identified because his body was too mangled.  The attacker fled down the stairs of the elevated station in Queens and police are distributing grainy …

Read More »

PBS Covers “Occupy Sandy”

Read More »