A Queens woman is in critical condition after her husband allegedly stabbed her in the head several times with a meat cleaver. According to police, the attack happened around 5:45 a.m. today in the couple's Parsons Blvd. apartment. more ›

The food malls of Flushing are legendary: a wonderland of cheap, authentic, down-and-dirty Chinese food accessible only to those who know the language and are willing to put just about anything in their mouth. It's a daunting experience, but in recent years, as the number of malls has increased, more and more intrepid eaters are hopping on the 7 train to explore the wilds for themselves. Not sure where to start? Though it's by no means exhaustive, here's a look at the tip of the iceberg. more ›

You know how you should never let strangers into your apartment building? Even the police say, "If you live in an apartment don't be polite and hold the lobby door open for a stranger who has been waiting." But in one Queens building, one resident's stranger turned out to be another resident and the whole thing turned into a fight, one of them getting beaten up and the other arrested. more ›

A veteran Queens elementary school teacher was arrested yesterday after allegedly assaulting a 6-year-old student. Grace Peterson-Hagendorf, a retired teacher working as a substitute at PS 22 Thomas Jefferson in Flushing, allegedly pushed a girl into her chair around 10 a.m. Wednesday, twisting the girl's neck with enough force to cause pain and bruising. Her husband Arthur Hagendorf defended her to DNAInfo, "I think she was falsely accused of this. She would never hurt a child in any way, shape or form." more ›

The 26-year-old man who allegedly killed his girlfriend on a Fort Lee, NJ street by driving his car over her multiple times is still in Queens, awaiting extradition back to NJ. Aena Hong, 25, was killed on Monday afternoon and, at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Ann, a U.S. citizen, was found in a Flushing apartment with his passport and $3,000 cash. Police think he was trying to flee the country after the brutal confrontation. A witness said, "The guy ran over the girl. He backed up again. It happened really quick"— the driver seemed to want “to finish her." more ›

An unidentified woman described by the NYPD as "Asian and in her 40s" was fatally run over in Queens this morning around 8 a.m. The FDNY tells us she was declared dead at the scene of the accident, at the intersection of Northern Blvd and Union Street in Flushing. According to the FDNY, she may have been struck by a bus and multiple vehicles, and an NYPD spokesman tells us investigators are still trying to determine if the woman was hit by a bus or another vehicle. more ›

How much is a new senior sandbox worth in Flushing? According to the Daily News, a new bocce court the city is installing in Bowne Park will cost $507,000. “We all thought it was ridiculously high,” Community Board 7's parks committee chairman said. “Five-hundred-and-seven thousand dollars and a year for wood and dirt? Give me a break.” Well, we are living in an era of $15 pencil sharpenings. more ›

Since we changed the name of the site to Linthamist, we're doing our best to brush up on Taiwanese culture and began to wonder what Taiwanese and Chinese food had in common, and what made Taiwanese cuisine unique. With the help of a staffer's parents who grew up in Taiwan, here's a cursory guide. more ›

The parents of a 5-year-old girl are outraged over their daughter's homework assignment, which included spelling exercises for the words as "GUN" and "ROB." NY1 reports that the Flushing family is "demanding answers" after seeing their daughter's lesson when she came home from school today. "She showed me her homework, I look at it and I see the word gun on it. The first thing I thought was oh no no no, I don't want you reading it, I don't want you spelling it. I don't even want you looking at the picture. Trying to keep her away from from violence and she is being drawn to it in her homework, and that's not something I want her to learn," Lawrence Gillman told NY1. more ›

Police say a man impersonating a police officer sexually assaulted and then robbed a Queens woman last month. According to NBC New York, "The woman, 52, was posting flyers at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 along 41st Avenue in Flushing when she was approached by a burgundy van or SUV with four people inside. The suspect displayed a business card with a police logo and told her it was illegal to post flyers, asking for her identification, police said." more ›

Manhattan's Chinatown might want to think of a new name, because it's not actually home to the most Chinese people anymore, according to new city data. If you want to get in with the Chinese crowd these days, Sunset Park and Flushing are where it's at. more ›

Minutes before 9 a.m. yesterday, a "black Hispanic" man wearing a Yankees cap, a blue plaid shirt, large black sunglasses and a single glove, robbed a Chase Bank in Flushing, Queens at gunpoint. The FBI believes it is the third bank the "One Glove Bandit" has robbed, in addition to the Signature Bank at 84 Broadway in Brooklyn, which he allegedly robbed on May 6 and July 1. There's no word on the whether Bubbles was an accomplice, or if the hearts he has stolen with the single "You Are Not Alone" will ever be returned. more ›

Police believe that a nurse who was fatally shot in Flushing, Queens on Saturday night was killed because the shooters were out for revenge—but they got very mixed up. Christina Coleman, 39, was killed by gunmen who, the NY Post reports, were "aiming for her teenage son -- and he wasn't even the right target either. In the fatal case of mistaken identity, the armed thugs thought they were shooting at the mom's other son, Mark Coleman, 22, who is suspected of being involved in gunplay earlier in the day, the sources said." more ›

Look at that old church, getting hip to the know! After forgiving John Lennon a few years back, organized religion today made another attempt to be cool, this time at the hands of a 37-year-old self-described "hipster" reverend who founded something called the Hipster Church, which is a story we are absolutely not making up. more ›

Yesterday, a mother confronted the man who admitted to grabbing her 23-year-old daughter off a Queens street and beating and raping her with a metal pipe, then leaving her for dead in an alley. Guihua Yu, who traveled from China, shouted and sobbed, "You beast! Give me back my daughter! .... Yao was our sun, our hope, our dreams, our future and our strength... You have destroyed our lives. I wish a life of hell for you." more ›

A man who apparently shot himself with a shotgun inside a car in Flushing was found this morning after police unearthed the car from several feet of snow. Police believe the victim, 36-year-old Kevin Ronan, could have been buried in the car since last Wednesday! more ›

Chinese food is as beloved as Christmas Day in New York, so we're feeling a bit snubbed that we only have two restaurants in this top ten list of America's best Chinese restaurants. And while we could maybe be content losing the #1 spot to somewhere in San Francisco, we have to play fourth-fiddle to Yang Ming Restaurant in Bryn Mawr, PA. Foodie Ed Schoenfeld complained to the Post, "We have some wonderful restaurants in New York that were left off. It's simply wrong—not that there can't be great Chinese restaurants in Tennessee or Alabama but come on..." more ›

A Queens man had to be strapped to a stretcher and taken to a hospital for evaluation after allegedly slamming his young son into a car so hard it dented the hood. Witnesses say the "emotionally distraught" man was carrying his 5- or 6-year-old son through Flushing, trying to hit passing cars. He allegedly yelled, "F- - -ing 9/11! I can't watch the Jets game! We're going down to Ground Zero to pay our respects," before slamming the boy on top of a car. The child has been released into his mother's custody, and wasn't badly injured. No word on whether the dad was able to catch the last of the awesome game. more ›

What's worse than a bad neighbor? A bad neighbor that could give you rabies. "Do you know who our neighbors are? Raccoons!" cries 75-year-old Florence Levine, explaining the reason why one Flushing block has become paralyzed with fear of ever leaving their houses. An abandoned building on 32nd Avenue has reportedly become overrun with the possibly rabid creatures, and is making some residents mad with hyperbole. Lee Lack told the Daily News, "I've seen raccoons come out of that house, some so big you can put a saddle on them!" (Guess they learned something from the brownstone-loving raccoons in Park Slope.) more ›

The 53-year-old woman who allegedly threw a 2-year-old boy off a seventh floor balcony, killing him, underwent psychological evaluation yesterday, delaying her arraignment. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors are determining whether Xiao Cai is fit to stand trial. In the meantime, little Jerry Zhou's mother is apparently so devastated by her son's death that she can't bear to return to the Flushing apartment where the tragedy occurred. more ›

Last night, a two-year-old child was thrown from a seventh floor balcony in Flushing, Queens, landing on the cement sidewalk. Jerry Zhou, who would have turned three in a few weeks, was pronounced dead at New York Hospital Queens, and a 53-year-old woman who was living with his family and was described by authorities as depressed was taken into custody. more ›

We're going to go ahead and assume that quite a few criminals get their ideas about pulling crimes from movies. But what was the last movie you saw where kidnapping a rich kid for ransom works? Their parents are always in with the FBI, or some other secret gang, and the bad guys are never quietly sent the money like they are asked. But apparently, one gang in Queens hadn't caught up on Rush Hour. more ›

Firefighters were called to a building on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens yesterday afternoon to battle a fire that started on the third floor in a private immigration office. But once the fire was put out, police found a man in his 40s with his throat slashed, leading them to suspect arson and possibly a botched murder-suicide. Police pulled a second man from the building, and suspected him of killing the first. more ›

Pastor Ted Chase of Flushing's George's Episcopal Church is claiming divine intervention during Thursday's tornado in Queens. The twister ripped the steeple of the church from the bell tower and sent it flying across the street. Luckily, nobody was harmed. He told the Daily News, "We believe it was a miracle." more ›

"Fornino Park Slope is a throwback, the sort of restaurant that will appeal mostly to those who still think of Manhattan as 'the city,' and who rarely cross a river to get to work," says Sam Sifton in his one star review of chef Michael Ayoub's return to Park Slope. Despite its expansive menu, most critics have focused (unfavorably) on Fornino's grilled pizza. Sifton doesn't dissent, loving pretty much everything until he comes to that controversial item, which "may be the restaurant’s weakest suit. The pies at Fornino Park Slope have thin crusts, in some cases almost shatteringly so, and they can lack the purity of flavor that characterizes the wood-oven versions at the Williamsburg location. Sometimes they don’t work at all. A plain margherita pie, for instance, sits flat and crackly on its plate, devoid of yeasty flavor; it felt in the mouth a little like a pizza made with saltines." more ›

If you were wondering why the Empire State Building was lit up red and green last night, it's in honor of the 20th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival taking place at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. Yesterday's opening ceremonies kicked off the event, which runs through the end of the day today. There are musical events, arts and crafts tents and Kung Fu demonstrations, but the part most people come to see are the dragon boats themselves. more ›

Many longtime, non-Asian residents of Flushing, Queens are feeling slighted with food choices ever since the Key Foods in the area shut down. The closure left Asian markets as the only local source for groceries, and locals are demanding that they start carrying normal, boring, Western stuff like bologna and bagels. Local Rosa Febles told the WSJ (paywall), "Most of the supermarkets in the area are Asian markets and all they have is just one single aisle of food for us. We feel a little left out." And don't ask them to go to the Met Food on Browne Street; apparently it caters to a "nearby Latino population." When will the white people catch a break? more ›

After he and an accomplice were busted for robbing the same Chinese restaurant three times in four days, police have arrested two clearly brilliant men for the murder of Queens gas station attendant Nadeem Khan. Christopher Roberts, 21, was charged with second degree murder while his accomplice, Maurice Echols, 21, was charged with robbery. However, Roberts says Echols was the one who pulled the trigger. more ›