🌱 Calexico Now Open In Astoria + Jamaica Mother Shot To Death

Miranda Fraraccio
Updated ·2 min read

Hey, Queens! Here's everything you need to know to get this Saturday started off right. These are the most important things happening today in town.

First, today's weather:

Cooler with periods of rain. High: 45 Low: 40.

Here are the top 3 stories in Queens today:

  1. A long-awaited Mexican restaurant has finally opened on 30th Avenue in Astoria. California-style Mexican restaurant Calexico opened last week at 32-07 30th Ave., and is the company’s first location in Queens and represents its fifth in New York City. The restaurant was initially scheduled to open in early 2020 but its plans were thrown off course when COVID-19 struck. (Astoria Post)

  2. Police are investigating after a mother of two was shot to death outside of her home in Jamaica on Friday morning. 39-year-old Dawn Peterson was approached by a man in front of her home, before being shot multiple times in her chest and back. The shooting happened near Foch Boulevard and 155th Street just before 6:30 a.m. (CBS New York)

  3. A Middle Village man will do prison time for making threats online to kill a U.S. senator. Eduard Florea, 41, was sentenced Thursday to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty in August to a weapons charge and making threats. Florea, a self-proclaimed Proud Boy, was arrested Jan. 12 at his home on 76th Street near Eliot Avenue. (Ridgewood Post)

Today in Queens:

  • Artist Market Holiday Pop-Up & Free Film Festival At King Manor Museum (12:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • At the JFK Redevelopment Program, Delta Air Lines and JFKIAT are investing $1.5 billion to expand Terminal 4, and JFK Millennium Partners is investing $3.9 billion to build a new Terminal 6. (Facebook)

  • Are you ready for the holiday season? Give back to the community at the office of Catalina Cruz NY's Jackson Heights community clean up this Sunday! (Facebook)

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You're officially in the loop for today. I'll be back in your inbox Monday with another update!

— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.

This article originally appeared on the Queens Patch