Queens

The badly decomposed body of a man believed to be in his 40s was found in a van on a Queens street, police said Monday. The corpse was discovered in a white van parked on Calloway St. near Otis Ave. in Corona about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, cops said. There were no obvious signs of … Read more

The young BMW driver who died in a fiery car crash along with one of his passengers, on the Belt Parkway was swerving to avoid a motorcyclist when he bumped into another car and lost control, the sister of one of the surviving passengers said. Noah “Nova” Thompson, 24, died along with one of his … Read more

A Queens middle school teacher was busted Tuesday morning for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager, cops said. David Ospino, 36, who teaches at Intermediate School 204 Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School in Long Island City, faces charges of rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged victim was not a student at the … Read more

Two grandsons of the late Gambino crime boss John “Teflon Don” Gotti were arrested for beating up an in-law during an old-school neighborhood street beatdown, officials said. Brothers Frankie Gotti, 27, and John Gotti, 31, allegedly assaulted brother-in-law Gino Gabrielli for breaking into a Howard Beach home John Gotti shares with his wife, Eleanor Gabrielli, … Read more

The puppy who chewed off the face of a Queens baby girl who had just died in her parents bed was going to be trained as a service dog for the baby’s non-verbal autistic stepbrother, the heartbroken parents said Thursday. The mother and stepdad of 6-week-old Kiyanna Winfield say she was born with a heart … Read more

Two men hung a noose from a Queens water tower, then apparently stopped to snap a picture of it with a cell phone, cops said Sunday. The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident as a possible bias crime. The men hoisted the noose from a tower on top of a building on … Read more