NYC pool closing for renovations

The 100-year-old Astoria pool is closing for the entire 2023 season. The Olympic size pool will undergo a $19 million renovation.

FDNY honors EMS lieutenant who was stabbed to death

Purple and black bunting now drapes the entrance to EMS Station 49 in Queens. The bunting was hung in a solemn ceremony to mourn the loss of FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, who was stabbed to death in a random attack.

NYC restores all alternate-side parking days

The city paused what some called a painful policy of two-days-a-week alternate side parking for street sweeping at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Now it is back.

FDNY: Battery triggers fire at bike shop in Queens

More than 100 firefighters responded to a fire at a bike shop in Astoria just before 2 p.m., the FDNY said. The fire torched the first and second floors of the mixed-use building.