City officials want to build on plans to remake Jamaica’s streetscape — including proposals for more pedestrian access — into an expansion of jobs and business opportunities in the bustling Queens ...

Jamaicans don’t have a lot to celebrate as they mark their golden anniversary of independence this year. Their unemployment rate is almost twice that of the Caribbean region as a whole; their ...

Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, in the 1980s and 1990s, Justin Rodgers always enjoyed going downtown to buy sneakers, even as he was aware that the commercial district, around Sutphin Boulevard and ...

NEW YORK-- Queen Elizabeth II was not just the queen of the United Kingdom, but one of the faces of the monarchy through ups and downs, conflicts and commonwealths, for decades. New Yorkers from ...

You can sense the pride in the eyes of Patricia Chin as she points out some of the famous artists that have been part of VP Records, the Caribbean music label based in Jamaica, Queens. It was ...

NEW YORK — Crews spent hours battling a fire at a Queens tire shop Tuesday. It broke out around 5:15 p.m. at a two-story shop on Liberty Avenue near 88th Street in Jamaica. New York City Fire ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lisa Hanna, a member of Jamaica's parliament, about how Jamaica's relationship with the monarchy may change after Queen Elizabeth II's death. With the death of Queen ...