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The Hechinger Report · Glen Cove, NY
Nearby: Glen Cove, NYVALLEJO, Calif. — Minutes before first bell, Penny Núñez-Brandão scanned the crowd outside Glen Cove Elementary School, looking for familiar faces. “I don’t see any,” the fifth grader told her mom one morning this August. “None of my friends are coming.” The start of a new school year can be nerve-racking under any circumstances. But for Penny and thousands of students across the U.S., this academic year brought the added difficulty of adjusting to an entirely new school after their previous one shuttered. As U.S. birth rates continue a multi-decade slide and state and federal education funding dries up, an increasing number of cash-strapped school districts around the country have resorted to closing campuses to save money. A total of 1,156 schools closed during the last academic year — the highest number since the pandemic, according to an analysis of federal data by Big Local News at Stanford University.
QNS · Queens, NY
Nearby: Queens, NYThere were year-over-year increases in the median asking price for homes and rent for apartments across Queens in October 2026, according to a report by StreetEasy. The median asking price in Queens over this period of time rose 1.4%, from $670,612 in October 2025 to $689,000 in October 2026. There was also a 5.4% jump in the number of homes for sale, from 3,201 in 2025 to 3,373 in 2026. While inventory went up, the number of homes to enter contract fell 8.4%, from 368 last year to 337 this year. The median number of days available homes in Queens spent on the market went down from 69 days to 60 days. Queens' jump in median asking price of homes went against the trends of Manhattan, Brooklyn and New York City as a whole. Manhattan's 5.2% drop and Brooklyn's 9% decline carried more weight than Queens on the citywide trend of median asking price, which went down 5.2%, from $1,049,579 in October 2025 to $995,000 in October 2026.
Business Insider · Queens, NY
Nearby: Queens, NYAMD's CEO, Lisa Su, grew up in Queens and obtained three degrees from MIT. She's also the cousin of Jensen Huang, former CEO of rival Nvidia, who resigned on Thursday. Here is a look at her career rise, personal life, and challenges over the years. Editor's note: This story was originally published in October of 2025 and has been updated to reflect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation. Lisa Su is the engineer behind one of the most dramatic corporate turnarounds in the tech industry. The Taiwanese American CEO is widely credited with transforming AMD from a struggling semiconductor firm on the brink of collapse into a global powerhouse competing head-to-head with Intel and Nvidia. When Su joined AMD in 2012, the company's market value was under $2 billion. Within a decade of her leadership, AMD's innovations in high-performance computing and graphics, especially the Ryzen CPUs and EPYC server processors, catapulted the company's value to over $950 billion as of Thursday.
QNS · Queens, NY
Nearby: Queens, NYThe employees who help keep the city running behind the scenes are gaining a collective voice in the workplace, as community board district managers have officially been recognized as union members of Communications Workers of America Local 1180. The feat marks a first for the district managers, who oversee the day-to-day operations of the city's 59 community boards. James McClelland, district manager of Queens Community Board 9, announced the news during the board's Nov. 10 meeting at Queens Borough Hall. He said he was honored to have been entrusted by his fellow district managers to represent Queens during the organizing effort and was selected to serve on the union's collective bargaining committee. “After nearly 25 years in public service, I understand the dedication and commitment this work demands,” McClelland said.
QNS · Flushing, NY
Nearby: Flushing, NYThe next installment of Flushing Town Hall’s Global Mashup concert series brings together Hollywood and Bollywood, with bands performing classic tunes from classic films made in both America and India. “For generations, Hollywood has given us mystery, magic, romance, and joy, along with soundtracks that still get people singing and dancing decades later,” the storied Flushing venue says in its announcement. “Bollywood has done the same, with infectious rhythms, sweeping melodies, and show-stopping dance numbers loved by audiences around the globe. For this very special Global Mashup, these two musical worlds collide.” The show is set for Saturday, Nov. 14. The concert starts at 8 p.m., with dance lessons preceding it at 7. Performing Hollywood tracks will be band leaders Ray Naccari and Dakota McLeod, Naccari also on piano/keyboards and McLeod on vocals, Keith Anthony Fluitt on vocals, Chulo Gatewood on bass and Greg Barrett on drums.
The Seattle Times · Manhattan, NY
Nearby: Manhattan, NYA member of New York’s Chinese dissident community who admitted spying for five years on fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government got no prison time at his sentencing in Manhattan federal court.
Jacksonville Daily Progress · Manhattan, NY
Nearby: Manhattan, NYA member of New York’s Chinese dissident community who admitted spying for five years on fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government got no prison time at his sentencing in Manhattan federal court. Yuanjun Tang, an outspoken critic of…
Farmington Daily Times · Manhattan, NY
Nearby: Manhattan, NYNEW YORK (AP) — A member of New York’s Chinese dissident community who admitted spying for five years on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government avoided prison time at his sentencing Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Yuanjun Tang, 69, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party for over three decades, was sentenced to three years’ probation by Judge John G. Koeltl. The judge said claims by some individuals who believe they and their families were targeted for harm because of Tang’s actions could not be proven. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Chong had asked the judge to impose a five-year prison sentence, the maximum Tang could face after pleading guilty in September 2025 to a charge that he failed to register as an agent of the People’s Republic of China with the U.S. attorney general’s office.
NYT > New York · Manhattan, NY
Nearby: Manhattan, NYCrossing the Hudson River on a weekday this fall has required planning, patience and, sometimes, luck. Four New York Times employees put their routes to the test.
Armenian Weekly · Manhattan, NY
Nearby: Manhattan, NYFor many young creatives, moving from Yerevan to Manhattan’s fashion scene is a distant dream, but for designer Abel Martirosyan, it became a reality. After earning his degree at Armenia’s State Academy of Fine Arts, a spontaneous application to New York’s Parsons School of Design led to a 75-percent scholarship and a move to New … Read the full article
QNS · East Elmhurst, NY
Nearby: East Elmhurst, NYA homeless man is being held without bail after he was criminally charged with first-degree murder for stabbing a massage parlor worker in the Koreatown section of Flushing on Friday, Nov. 6. Zhordrack Blodywon, 54, was apprehended by members of the NYPD Warrant Squad on Astoria Boulevard near 98th Street in East Elmhurst on Monday, Nov. 9, and was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday, Nov. 11, on a complaint charging him with murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree and other crimes for killing 39-year-old Shao Ling Huang in the storefront in a mixed-use building at 36-17 164th St. If convicted, Blodywon faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Thursday morning. According to the charges and the investigation led by NYPD Det. Juliana Villa of the 109th Precinct Detective Squad, between 3:50 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Nov. 6, Blodywon entered the massage parlor.
