Peter C. Mastrosimone

Members of the Veggie Nuggets, a youth climate action group, happily display the garden they grew on 69th Street in Jackson Heights, which was mown down in late September. Inset, members including Eilean Faltin, center, at one of their events.

The Fort Totten Water Battery in Bayside, designed to protect the city from any enemy vessels in the East River and Long Island Sound.

Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income payments for more than 72.5 million Americans will increase 2.5 percent in 2025, the Social Security Administration announced last Thursday. On average, retirement benefits will increase by about $50 per month starting in January, the agency said. Over the last decade the COLA has averaged about 2.6 percent. It was 3.2 percent in 2024.

We are proud to announce that the joint winners of the contest are Linda Barone of Howard Beach, who managed to capture so much that says Queens in her photo of two dogs looking at each other from cars on Crossbay Boulevard, and Tim Rasmussen of Douglaston (next photo). Each winner, north and south, will receive a $50 gift card good anywhere.

A Queens couple were killed early Sunday morning when the motorcycle they were on collided with an SUV in Harlem, the Daily News reported.

Amanda Servedio was an accountant from Arkansas whose parents were from the Bronx.

New move against illegal activities vexes those who engage in them

The victim and another teenage girl fell between two cars on the 7 train at the 111th Street station in Corona, according to a preliminary report from officers on the scene, the NYPD press office said. The incident occurred at about 10:48 p.m.

Police say this person is not making the best use of his hands.

Amanda Servedio was an accountant from Arkansas whose parents were from the Bronx.