Yesterday around 9 a.m., a former Marine was dropping his daughter off at the baby-sitter's house in Whitestone when he heard screams from a wooded area. It turned out a man was trying to rape a woman. At first, it was unclear what was going on, but Bryan Teichman told the Daily News, "When I saw him throw her over the guardrail, that's when I knew it wasn't play." So he jogged over and starting screaming, "Get the f--- off her!" more ›

The W and V train cuts have been getting most of the MTA doomsday attention, so the Daily News decided to take a look at changes upsetting residents in Whitestone. The Q15A bus was created as an alternate route of the Q15 bus to help those stranded by the Q14 elimination. The bus goes down a residential stretch of 10th Avenue, and locals say the street isn't wide enough. One asked the Daily News, "A fire truck, usually the first response for a heart attack, how are they gonna get by?" more ›

A 31-year-old man has burns over 70% of this body when his garage workshop in the Whitestone section of Queens exploded yesterday at 7 p.m. The explosion was so strong, the garage's roof blew off and WCBS 2 reports, "Witnesses said the explosion sent shockwaves throughout the neighborhood and one woman added that a vase full of flowers was knocked over inside her house -- and she lives three blocks away." more ›

Harley Greenfield, the CEO of Jennifer Convertibles, drunkenly ran over an MTA security guard as he walked across the Whitestone Expressway last night around 10:45, police sources said. Greenfield refused to take a Breathalyzer (can't we just make this mandatory?) but law enforcement officials tell City Room he "had alcohol on his breath and red, watery eyes, and told officers he had consumed one vodka drink and a glass of wine." (According to the Post, he was given a portable Breathalyzer test at the scene, but later refused to take an official Breathalyzer test at the station house.) The victim, Mohammed Rohman, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene. more ›

After crashing his car on the Whitestone Expressway in an apparent attempt to shake FBI agents on his tail, a Queens man connected to Najibullah Zazi's alleged subway bombing plot was arrested at a Queens hospital, where he was being treated for minor injuries. Adis Medunjanin, 25, saw federal agents "swarming" his apartment as he arrived around 3:45 p.m. yesterday, and sped off. After crashing in Whitestone, he attempted to flee the scene but was apprehended by agents. more ›

Queens DA Richard Brown announced a major bust yesterday of a ring of car thieves who were casually driving SUVs off of dealership lots. The nine suspects arrested in "Operation Lockbox" hit a total of nine different dealerships around Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island where they made off with over $400,000 in Lincolns, BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes. more ›

The Whitestone resident whose 20th Road home was pierced by an arrow Tuesday night spent yesterday showing the damage to reporters. Eric Weinberger told 1010 WINS, "I was coming in from taking out the garbage, then I heard a loud noise...looked up...saw the arrow sticking out of the side of my house. Two seconds earlier and it would have hit me." He pointed out the arrow hit a window frame; just inside was where his wife and a daughter were sitting, "It could have hit one of them, God forbid." The NY Times reports that the police found another arrow down the street and even "deployed" a helicopter, "sweeping the streets with a spotlight." While Weinberger, a Costco receiving manager, says he has no enemies and believes it was a copycat incident, the police said, "At this point the detectives are working on the hypothesis that it was another accidental shooting, and someone is just afraid to come forward." more ›