Arverne Man Run Over, Gunned Down In Wavecrest

Homicides, Shooting Incidents Rock Rockaway - Two Shooting Deaths, Numerous

Arverne Man Run Over, Gunned Down In Wavecrest Homicides, Shooting Incidents Rock RockawayTwo Shooting Deaths, Numerous ‘Shots Fired’ Calls Mar Holiday Week A 25-year-old Arverne man was run over and then shot and killed as he stood outside his brother’s home in Wavecrest on Tuesday, the third slaying in Rockaway in recent weeks, police say. Laton Spurgeon, who lived at […]

Teen Fatally Shot Outside Hammels Building

Homicides, Shooting Incidents Rock Rockaway Two Shooting Deaths, Numerous

Teen Fatally Shot Outside Hammels Building Homicides, Shooting Incidents Rock RockawayTwo Shooting Deaths, Numerous ‘Shots Fired’ Calls Mar Holiday Week An 18-year-old Rockaway Beach man was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital Friday after he was shot once in the chest outside one of the buildings at the Hammel Houses. Cedric Smalls, who lived at 7600 Shore Front […]

Teacher Cleared In Racist Graffiti Case



A special education teacher was acquitted last week of scrawling racist graffiti on a bathroom stall at a public school in Belle Harbor. A jury last Friday found Yolanda Moorjaney, 33, of 247 Street in Bellerose, Queens, not guilty of criminal mischief as a hate crime – the charge stemming from a 2004 investigation into a series of racist and […]

Sanders, Conflicted On Police, Seeks A Plan To Fight Violence

Closed-Door Meeting Today To Find Consensus - Analysis Of The News

Closed-Door Meeting Today To Find Consensus – Analysis Of The News City Councilman James Sanders, Jr., is a man in conflict. On the one hand, he recently marched down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan shoulder to shoulder with the Reverend Al Sharpton and the New Black Panther Party demanding that police power be truncated and that all NYPD undercover activities be […]

Wave To Close Mondays 12/25 And 1/1



The Wave office will be closed on the next two Mondays so that our employees can celebrate the holidays with family and friends. The office will be closed on Monday, December 25 and Monday January 1. All deadlines for the newspaper during those two weeks will remain the same. We wish both our readers and our advertisers a happy and […]

‘The Looming Tower’ Looms Large As Reading ‘Must’



A Wave ReviewBy Howard Schwach If you plan on reading only one book in 2007, make that book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” by Lawrence Wright. Far from an academic tome, this book reads like a fiction thriller that keeps the reader glued to its pages far into the night. It is a sweeping narrative history […]

Mayor Sets New Office Of Special Enforcement



Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced the creation of the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE), which replaces the former Office of Midtown Enforcement and expands its activities to all five boroughs. OSE is responsible for coordinating enforcement efforts across City agencies to address quality of life issues related to notorious adult use locations, lawless clubs, trademark counterfeiting bazaars and […]

Search On For Man Who Shot Seven Rounds At Police Officers



Detective for the New York City Police Department are endeavoring to locate Jamal Bryant, who is wanted in connection with an incident on Wednesday in which he allegedly fired a number of shots at police officers patrolling the Edgemere Housing Development. Bryant is described by police as six feet tall, weighing approximately190 pounds and wearing jeans; and a hooded jacket. […]

Get Ready For Boulevard Closure, Detours



Major roadwork is slated to start on Rockaway Beach Boulevard in about a month, making detours and traffic headaches part of the peninsula’s winter forecast. A six-block section of the boulevard – from the east side of Beach 73 Street to the west side of Beach 67 Street – will be closed starting sometime between January 15 and February 1, […]

Crime Continues To Drop In New York City



Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly have announced that New York City continues to reduce overall crime to levels not seen in decades and remains the safest big city in America according to the FBI’s Preliminary Crime Report for the first six months of 2006. According to the report, the City experienced a 7.2% drop in […]