Queens Chronicle

A Corona man was killed in a knife attack while aboard a J train Wednesday after getting into an argument, according to the NYPD. Police said that at about 5:20 p.m., Mesias Lojano, 59, of 97th Street, was on the eastbound J train at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station when he became engaged in a verbal dispute and was stabbed multiple times throughout his body.

Amid a citywide rise in hate crimes and after tense interactions at the United Nations last week over the war in Gaza, Mayor Mamdani on Tuesday unveiled a plan to fight antisemitism. The first-of-its-kind Strategy to Combat Antisemitism looks to confront hatred, protect Jewish residents and uplift Jewish institutions, traditions and communities, per a City Hall press release.

Sam Kuperschmid (not with a T at the end as reported elsewhere) married Natalie Gilberg in June 1938. Their only child, Alan Peter, was born on Feb. 5, 1944. They moved from Brooklyn in 1948 to a rental in Queens Village and then bought a new home there at 80-07 214 St. in 1950. At that time Sam decided to change the family last name to Kooper. Alan started piano at age 6 and taught himself guitar.

The Mets surprised everyone last Tuesday by naming Andy Green, appointed as the team’s interim manager in June to replace Carlos Mendoza, as their permanent manager. Both Green and Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns insisted the appointment was temporary. Green said at the time that he was taking the job out of a sense of obligation to the Mets organization. He was happy with his current position as the team’s director of minor league operations.

A nor’easter didn’t stop a crowd of hundreds from heading to Jamaica Avenue and 94th Street in Woodhaven on Sunday for a co-naming ceremony dubbing the intersection “Schmidt’s Candy Corner.” The honor was in celebration of Schmidt’s Candy, at 94-15 Jamaica Ave., marking 100 years of business. Margie Schmidt, center, keeps the shop running with the same delectable recipes her grandfather — the original owner — used.

The New York Blood Center announced Monday that this past weekend’s storm resulted in the loss of about 1,000 units that were expected to be collected in area blood drives. Type O blood, particularly O-negative, always is in demand, though donors of all types are needed. More information is online at nybc.org. The following area drives are coming up: • St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 3:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, in the auditorium at 196-10 Northern Blvd.

“I know I’ve said it before, but this is it,” Rochdale native Dalilah Muhammad told NBC’s Lewis Johnson about running in the World Athletics Ultimate Championship on Sept. 10 in Budapest, a new biennial track event making its debut this year. The race also marked exactly a decade since Muhammad was thrown a parade, above, at Rochdale Village, after she became the first American woman to ever win Olympic gold in the 400-meter hurdles.

Warren Schreiber, president of the Queens Civic Congress, told the Chronicle he was pleased with the turnout at the Hillcrest Jewish Center on Sept. 23, when the group hosted a forum on the increasing construction of and applications to build battery energy storage systems in residential neighborhoods. “A lot of people don’t know about BESSes,” Schreiber said. “I think it was important for us to educate people and get the word out.

This article was originally published on Sept. 25, 7:46 p.m. EDT by THE CITY REPORTER. A federal grant rejected by Mayor Mamdani’s administration that would have funded shelter for homeless veterans in New York City included clauses prohibiting the promotion of “gender ideology” and “denial of the sex binary,” which city officials say is why they pulled out of the longstanding program, The City Reporter has learned.

Eight people are sought by police after a man’s back was slashed and his backpack stolen in Woodhaven, within the confines of the NYPD’s 102nd Precinct, on Sept. 10. According to police, a 29-year-old male was in front 91-47 88 Road when eight unidentified individuals approached him at approximately 8:22 p.m. A verbal dispute ensued, and multiple individuals displayed weapons and cutting instruments, cops said.