A speeding U-Haul driver lost control and drove into an Arby's in Fresh Meadows, Queens, killing one customer. Sixty-seven-year-old Caroline Leung and her husband had been eating near a window, and the Daily News reports the crashing van threw her from her seat and she was "pinned against a counter that holds the soda machines." A witness said, "There was blood everywhere on the floor and shattered glass. It was like worse than a......

A nine-year-old girl remains in critical condition following surgery yesterday at Long Island Jewish Hospital after an unregistered van carrying school children was struck by a city bus. The accident occurred Friday morning allegedly after the passenger van cut off a Q46 bus in Fresh Meadows, Queens. The bus clipped the van, sending it into a spin, shattering its windows, and ejecting a bench seat into the street. The van was carrying seven children, six......

Earlier this morning, an MTA bus collided with a school van transporting children in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Details of the accident are thin, but initial reports say that up to 9 people are injured, most of which are children. The collision occurred just after 8 a.m. when the Q46 bus struck the van. The FDNY says that two critically injured children were sent to Long Island Jewish Hospital with one other child. Three other children......

The family of Daniel Pujdak, the firefighter who fell to his death while responding to a Brooklyn fire Thursday evening, does not blame anyone for the fire. The fire was caused by a cigarette left on a window sill of a loft building that had been illegally converted to residential living. Pujdak's brother David said, "It was just a tragic accident. Nobody is to blame," while his other brother Matt said, "I agree completely. It......

Yesterday, Transportation Alternatives held a rally at City Hall to draw attention to the recently increasing numbers of pedestrian fatalities on city streets. Last year, 163 pedestrians died, a 4% increase over 2005, and just this past weekend, four pedestrians were killed by vehicles. Relatives and friends of victims joined TA to demand that the city to make streets safer for pedestrians and "strengthen laws against motorists who kill or injure pedestrians" (Metro). Watch......

While there are some infants in Gothamist's midst, there are times when we seriously doubt our ability to raise a child. These times are usually when we hear about how expensive college educations are becoming, anything related to an Amber alert, or when we read things like this New York magazine article about an innocent posting about a found hat that went horribly, horribly wrong. The place: An email forum of Park Slope parents. The......

A Queens teenager was pinned by a truck that was hit by a speeding car, leading to his leg's amputation. Zong Ling Zhu was speeding in her minivan and crashed into another car before hitting a truck at Utopia Parkway at 58th Street. The truck, then Zhu's car, hit Andrew Tsai, who was walking outside his high school in Fresh Meadows. Zhu fled the scene, but the police arrested her for assault, reckless endangerment and......

This might be the feel-good story of the year: Little girl saves goat from impending death as dinner! A Queens family had purchased a baby goat to slaughter and then cook as part of a birthday celebration for a 2 year-old (that is some birthday... we can't even remember ours), but the goat got loose and decided to run for its little life in Queens. Enter 10 year old Heather Lodico who helped Animal Care......

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The Queens County Farm Museum, the only working farm in the city, is planning on starting a vineyard. The Post reports that the Farm would be "bottling Chardonnays, Cabernets and Merlots as early as 2007." It seems that the climate in Queens is better suited for wine production than Long Island. Joshua Wesson, CEO of Best Cellars, gives this optimistic yet guarded quote, "It will be interesting to see if Queens wine can capture the......