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A Department of Transportation worker made the grisly discovery while mowing the grass next to the highway, just steps from Cypress Hills Cemetery, around 10:30 a.m. Aug. 6, cops and sources said.

The victim, who lives on 124th Street near 25th Avenue in College Point, recently bought the blue 2018 BMW on Facebook Marketplace for $6,000 in cash, law enforcement sources said. 

It has been well established after decades of research and experience that bike lanes improve safety for all road users, including pedestrians and drivers.Safer streets mean more foot traffic — pedestrians vote, quite literally, with their feet. It is well…

Now that tariffs are coming into full effect, more businesses are admitting that they will not be able to absorb the higher costs and will have to increase prices to their customers. Rising prices could make consumers reluctant to spend,…

There have been 14,000 rat sightings so far this year, and the number is decreasing. Reports of spotting a rat have dropped nearly 17 percent.Garbage pickup times have changed, trash is put out later and containerization is also helping.

The summer I turned 20 I backpacked through Europe. I spent some time in Germany and kept wondering while there how many of the adults were enablers of the Nazis, even more how many had been members of the SS…

It’s only a story but an often-repeated one. It’s a scene in “Hamilton.”When Cornwallis’s army surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, the military band played “The World Turned Upside Down.” Britain, the pre-eminent 18th Century world power, was…

The Queens Chronicle is to be commended for its efforts in calling the public’s attention to the apparent lack of interest in applying for admission to schools that use the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, in its Aug. 7 editorial…