Rego Park

The line stretched around the block for Daniel Fernandez's wake. The 16-year old St. Francis Prep student died Friday while on-board a double decker party bus. Police said he opened the bus' emergency roof hatch, stood up and out and then hit his head...

It's happened again -- nother New York City Public Schools employee has been accused of sexually molesting students he was hired to protect. This time, it's 49-year old Wilbert Cortez, a computer teacher at P.S. 174 in Rego Park, Queens. Parents are...

For the third time in a week and a half, a public school educator is under arrest for sexually abusing boys. This time, teacher Wilbert Cortez, 49, is charged with abusing two boys nearly 12 years after being found guilty of the same offense. It's...

Just as people in the New York area are wrestling with New Year’s resolutions to change their lives – and their living spaces – the popular makeover project “Vanessa to the Rescue” is returning to PIX 11 News.   The project...

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

Con Edison calls it a voltage reduction. Its customers call it a brownout. In any case, it is a controlled reduction of power for tens of thousands of homes in the Tri State area, thanks to Friday's record high temperatures. In thirteen neighborhoods and...

A young mother in Queens is enjoying a fabulous "new" apartment thanks to PIX 11 News and celebrity interior designer Vanessa DeLeon. DeLeon, who has appeared on HGTV and the Food Network, teamed up with PIX 11 for a project called "Vanessa to the...

Word has it the pregnant wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner is feeling trapped in her marriage, which is reportedly on shaky ground. According to the The New York Post, the close-knit, devout muslim family of 35-year-old Huma Abedin is "furious"...

Word has it that the pregnant wife of Rep. Anthony Weiner is feeling trapped in her marriage. According to the The New York Post, the close-knit, devout muslim family of 35-year-old huma abedin is "furious" with their jewish son-on-law's lewd behavior...

Federal officials are in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island today, touring the path of last week's tornadoes in order to determine if New York City will get funding from FEMA to help pay for the cleanup. Many residents, meanwhile, are frustrated that...

A 22-year-old man is dead after he and two of friends crashed their vehicle into a pillar early Wednesday morning in Rego Park. According to authorities, the three men were caught swiping rims from a parked car at the corner of 59th Road and 68th St....

A car went airborne, crashed into two houses and bursted into flames early Thursday morning in Flushing, Queens. At approximately 12:40 a.m., the driver of a 2009 Toyota Camry was traveling at a high speed eastbound on Horace Harding Expressway when he...