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'Demon in human skin' tenant uses every legal loophole to stay in $100-a-month Queens apartment: sources

Maria DeTommaso, 74, has lived in the railroad flat on the bottom floor of a Long Island City row house since at least 2002, where neighbors say she causes problems.

This prime Queens neighborhood is having a building boom -- and may have up to 14K homes on the way

All eyes are on the skies for this East River-front neighborhood, where brand new residential towers are rising alongside rents.

Here’s who rented the tallest -- and priciest -- home in Queens: 'Everyone wanted this apartment!'

The Long Island City penthouse left the market last week for a whopping $11,200 per month.

The priciest rental in Queens -- also the borough's tallest home -- has just found its next tenant

Not only is Skyline Tower the tallest residential building in Queens, it’s also the second tallest building in all of Long Island. 

Plane in fatal LI crash had smoke in cockpit just weeks prior, says surviving daughter in lawsuit: 'Just fly the damn airplane'

That lax attitude towards maintenance led to the fatal 2023 fire and crash in Lindenhurst and left daughter Reeva Gupta, 33, motherless, disabled and traumatized, a new lawsuit claims.

This Queens district is the 'top NYC neighborhood to watch' for 2nd year in a row

New York City’s housing landscape is shifting -- and the East River is no longer a dividing line, but a bridge to opportunity, according to StreetEasy.

Migrants take over, trash beloved NYC community garden — transforming greenspace into heap of beds and human feces

Smiling Hogshead Ranch came close to losing the plot this month after its landlord, the MTA, chastised the group for "health and safety issues."

Burglars steal jewelry, Gucci items from FedEx, UPS trucks in 3-borough NYC spree

The string of thefts began on April 1 when a single burglar raided a UPS truck on West 48th Street near Sixth Avenue in Midtown, a short walk from Rockefeller...

Judge puts brakes on planned bike lane through industrial NYC neighborhood 

A Queens judge pumped the brakes Friday on the city's plans to carve a bike lane through an industrial stretch of Long Island City -- ruling that claims it was...

Planned new bike lane in industrial NYC neighborhood has business owners fuming: 'Just not safe'

Businesses in one of the last-standing industrial corners of Long Island City say they can only take so much gentrification — and that a planned new bike lane has put...

NYC migrant shelter overrun by teen ‘fight club,' constant shrieking as residents reach breaking point

The residents of a Queens apartment building say they've hardly had a moment's peace since January, when a 128-room hotel in Long Island City was transformed into a city-run migrant...

Former NYC Rite Aid overrun by drunkards, migrants and human waste finally cleared out after Post exposé

Efforts continue at the fprmer Rite Aid to clean up the trash heaps and human waste left behind in the vacant building's parking lot.

Woman's disturbing account of random attack with umbrella outside NYC eatery goes viral

The victim — Runing Lao, a 30-year-old woman self-described “workaholic” who’s in the real estate business — told The Post she had just walked out of a Chipotle on July...

NYC store owner fears business 'won't survive' rampant shoplifting that has occurred since start of migrant crisis

Chris Sciacco, the owner of Kaiya’s Pallets at 36-37 31st St. in Long Island City, told The Post his store is targeted as many as six times a week by...

NYC pols fume as migrants keep getting dumped on one borough: 'It's like the third world'

Queens officials are crying foul over having more than their share of migrants dumped on their borough, as The Post visits one troublesome shelter in overburdened Long Island City.

Quality of life tanking in NYC communities with most migrant shelters: residents

The influx of illegal migrants to the Big Apple over the past two years has meant a sea-change in the quality of life for residents in ZIP codes swamped with...

NYC's poorest zip codes forced to bear brunt of migrant crisis, confidential docs reveal

Other communities also slammed with shelters include Jamaica, Queens, and parts of Midtown Manhattan.

Madman in custody after randomly slashing three men in Queens subway station

A madman was in custody after randomly slashing three men at a Long Island City subway station and leaving them with "big cuts" on their faces, according to a witness and police. 

This NYC chicken joint employs cashiers Zooming in from the Philippines — and still wants you to tip!

The new chain is taking advantage of the massive wealth gap between New York City, where the minimum wage is $16 per hour, and a Southeast Asian nation where hourly...