THE BIG STORE WITH BIG SAVINGS #1 IN DISCOUNT SALES 59-03 MYRTLE AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD • MYRTLE & FOREST AVENUES • 1-718-821-1500 Read more news every day at Queens' powerful news source, QNS.com Read more news every day at Queens’ powerful news source, QNS.com NYC's Largest Real Estate Section VOL. 108, NO. 26 JANUARY 26 — FEBRUARY 1, 2017 NYC’s Largest Real Estate Section GOING UP SEE PAGE 2 SINCE 1908 50 ¢ VOL. 108, NO. 27 FEBRUARY 2 8, 2017 UPS driver robbed in Ridgewood BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICERIDGEWOODTIMES.COM A_GIUDICEREPORT Police need the public’s help in nding the gunman who robbed a UPS driver at gunpoint on a Ridgewood street last week. e NYPD released on Tuesday, Jan. 31, images of an individual wanted for questioning in connection with the holdup that occurred on Stanhope Street near Seneca Avenue at 2:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24. According to law enforcement agents, the 35-year-old UPS truck driver was making a delivery to a Stanhope Street home when he was approached by an unknown individual who brandished a silver rearm and demanded cash from the truck driver. e gun-toting crook then ed the location in a gray Honda Accord in an unknown direction with approximately $400, police said.O cers from the 104th Precinct responded to the incident and there were no reported injuries. e robber has been described as a black male, approximately 25-30 years old, standing approximately 6 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds and last seen wearing a UPS jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website, www. nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept con dential. OUR 68th YEAR WINES & LIQUORS TOP COP SEE PAGE 16 Hundreds honor long-time police-community liaison RIDGEWOOD TIMES/Photo by Robert Pozarycki Meeting on light rail proposal SEE PAGE 3 Robot boxing tournament in Ridgewood SEE PAGE 19 50¢ SPECIAL SECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK See Page 15 Bike-riding man sought for stabbing BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM @A_GIUDICEREPORT Cops are searching for a suspect who took off on a bike aft er stabbing a man in Woodhaven this past weekend. According to police, the attack took place at 3 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22, when an unknown suspect used an unknown object to stab and slice the 41-year-old male victim in his head and lower right arm outside of a home on 95th Street near 91st Avenue. Aft er the attack, the suspect — last seen wearing a red sweatshirt and white slacks — fl ed the scene of the crime on a bike in an unknown direction, law enforcement agents said. Offi cers from the 102nd Precinct arrived on scene with EMS units; the victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police stated. No arrests have been made at this time and the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish dial 888-57-PISTA, visit the Crime Stoppers website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confi dential. Developers ready to build new luxury apartment house in Ridgewood See Page 6 Photo: Robert Pozarycki/RIDGEWOOD TIMES SINCE 1908 TIMES NEWSWEEKLY (USPS 465-940) is published weekly by Schneps NY Media LLC, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361. Periodicals postage paid at Flushing, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Times Newsweekly/Ridgewood Times, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside NY 11361-2058
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