Forest Hills

Gene Mako Champion tennis player in 1930s Gene Mako, 97, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...

Gene Mako, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Laura. He was 97 and had...

The man found dead early Sunday in the parking lot of an Orange County apartment complex may be an ex-convict from New York, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Deputies found the body of Julio Velez, 35, next to his grey, 2006 Chevrolet...

Janet Malcolm is not an art critic or a literary critic. She's a journalist, and I don't say that with condescension. She's a journalist the way Joan Didion is — the kind who recognizes, as she put it in the first sentence of "The Journalist and the...

A New York man has been charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a person who he believed to be a young Bedford County girl. Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., has been charged with 13 counts of using a communications system to “...

Ocean City Winterfest of Lights Head to Ocean City for the opening weekend of the annual holiday lights extravaganza, which features a train ride through lighted holiday displays, including the 12 Days of Christmas. The event also has a heated...

This week's Friday Forecaster is "30 Rock" actor Judah Friedlander, who will talk about the first Annual Evian Wood Racquet Cup taking place tomorrow, AUgust 18th and is open to the public In celebration of Evian's sponsorship of the US Open, which has...

Free Friday$ - Each week we tell viewers what they can get for free. This week's free list: 1) Cyclone's 85th BDay 2) Tastings from AGED Restaurant CONEY ISLAND CYCLONE CELEBRATES ITS 85th ANNIVERSARY on June 30th New Yorkers and Tourists Alike Come...

A roadway worker was struck and killed by a drunk driver Tuesday on the Grand Central Parkway.  Frank Avino, 63, was laying down cones in the left-hand lane of the highway in Forest Hills, Queens, when he was hit. At around 11 a.m., a man identified as...

Robert J. Kelleher, who helped lead tennis into the modern open era while serving as president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Assn. and who later became a U.S. District Court judge based in Los Angeles, has died. He was 99. Kelleher, who was also captain of the...

Police have made an arrested in the robbery of a 68-year-old elderly blind woman who was pickpocketed at a Queens subway station in April. According to reports, 39-year-old Latisha Richardson has been charged in the robber with grand larceny, criminal...

Cops are looking for help in getting a knife wielding sexual predator off the streets and they've released his mug shot. His name is Ibrahim Ragis, and according to police he is responsible for at least three attacks on women in Forest Hills. The most...