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  1. October 11, 2026 The 14-story, 173-unit affordable Hillside North Building at 161-09 Hillside Ave. won a $1.2 million NYSERDA award and is slated for June 2029.
  2. October 5, 2026 Police are still hunting the stranger who stabbed Sulimon Ferrier, 29, a father of four, to death on Jamaica Avenue as his parents watched.
  3. October 4, 2026 Sulimon Ferrier, 29, a father of four, was stabbed to death outside a bar at 173-12 Jamaica Avenue early Saturday; the 103rd Precinct had two murders this year before it.
  4. September 26, 2026 Breaking Ground opened the 173-unit Sutphin Senior Residence at 97-10 Sutphin Blvd., with a health clinic on the ground floor.
  5. September 19, 2026 Queens High School for the Sciences left its single floor at York College for a new $110.75 million building on 88th Avenue.
  6. September 10, 2026 Christopher Brooks, 53, was beaten to death with a two-by-four in Rufus King Park Tuesday morning, two days after a 14-year-old bystander was shot near the park's southern end; no arrests in either case.
  7. September 7, 2026 A 14-year-old was shot in the leg near 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue, steps from the Rufus King Park playground; the gunman fled on foot and no arrests have been made.
  8. September 5, 2026 St. Stephen's Episcopal, founded in 1902 by Black workers who were not welcome to worship at Grace Church, will merge with a Hollis parish; its corner lot is listed at nearly $12 million and must be delivered vacant.
  9. September 1, 2026 Hochul and running mate Adrienne Adams opened a Democratic field office at 95-26 Sutphin Blvd., with a Siena poll this month giving Hochul a 10-point lead over Bruce Blakeman.
  10. August 25, 2026 A man jumped from a third-floor window to escape a fire at 90-29 138th Place Monday morning and survived with non-life-threatening injuries.
  11. July 29, 2026 A Queens Defenders cofounder who embezzled more than $400,000 from the legal-aid nonprofit, forcing 150 employees to transfer and costing it $35 million in contracts, was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
  12. July 13, 2026 A stranger punched a 65-year-old man in the face at the Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue subway station in a random daylight assault, the NYPD said.
  13. July 11, 2026 A new Heirs Property Protection Program will offer loans to help families untangle inherited-home title disputes that put an estimated $4 billion in wealth at risk citywide each year.

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