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CITY? Suburb? Seaside? Howard Beach has something of each. Though it's part of Queens, this neighborhood has a suburban seclusion, hemmed in as it is by the John F. Kennedy International Airport and the marshlands of Jamaica Bay. Driveways hold motorboats as well as cars, and anchors occasionally turn up as lawn ornaments. In many ways, Howard Beach is a coastal community, with a fair amount of waterfront and waterview property along with some of the most elaborate homes in South Queens. ''Howard Beach is positioned phenomenally within the boroughs,'' said Art Beroff, an investment banker who is a member...

The suspect in the murder of Karina Vetrano, a woman who was sexually attacked and strangled while running near her family’s New York City home, has been triggered by what he described as lewd acts on behalf of prisoners and guards at Rikers Island, according to a report. “Captains are trying to tell inmates to beat me up,” Chanel Lewis, 22, told The New York Post about corrections supervisors. WARNING: DISTURBING DETAILS BELOWLewis added that correction officers were instructing inmates to call him a “f----t, the a-word and the p-word.”Lewis told the Post that the semen of his fellow inmates...

Karina Vetrano was viciously beaten and strangled "until she could not struggle anymore" -- then, in a final indignity, the 30-year-old New Yorker's body was left naked in a weed-covered patch of land, where her executioner robbed her and fled. Prosecutors on Tuesday revealed the gruesome details of the Queens jogger’s August 2016 assault and murder, as the trial of her accused killer, Chanel Lewis, got underway. Vetrano's mother, Cathie Vetrano, was in the courtroom as Queens Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal recounted the graphic details, and was seen sobbing and clutching a crucifix, according to the New York Daily News. Leventhal...

Cops caught a suspect Saturday in the murder of Karina ­Vetrano, the beautiful jogger whose brutal strangulation last summer — in the high weeds of Spring Creek Park in Queens — had transfixed the city. Officials did not immediately release the name of the suspect, but sources told The Post he is in his 20s and lives in a housing project in East New York, Brooklyn, a neighborhood just west of her home in Howard Beach. The suspect had been on police radar for a while, sources told The Post.

The father of slain Queens jogger Karina Vetrano had a bad back — and a worse feeling — when his devoted daughter left on her nightly run. The vivacious 30-year-old, who typically jogged alongside her dad, ignored his warning to avoid an overgrown trail and ran right into the hands of a merciless killer, cops said Wednesday. Though cops say it appears she fought desperately, her father, Philip Vetrano, found her lifeless body — strangled and likely raped — facedown amid the towering weeds about 15 feet off a desolate path in a Howard Beach park. Neighbors say the 10-foot-high...

THE MORNING PAPER – July 5,2005 The New York Media is all aghast and agog over “yet another hate crime in Howard Beach”. Howard Beach is a neighborhood in Queens,NY.The residents are predominantly White, middle class , hard-working people of Italian descent. Over the years,they have learned their neighborhood is considered a target of opportunity by some of the young Black people who live nearby.They have also learned the police will not do anything about these marauders-for fear of being accused of “rousting” them. This has led to a certain spirit of “vigilante” action in Howard Beach – sometimes with...

A white Howard Beach teen was charged yesterday with the racially motivated baseball-bat beating of a black man who had wandered into the Queens neighborhood with two pals after trying to steal a car, police said. The vicious assault left South Jamaica resident Glen Moore, 22, in serious condition at Jamaica Hospital with a fractured skull. The beating echoed the 1986 bat attack in Howard Beach on three black men, one of whom was fatally struck by a car while fleeing a white mob.... Mayor Bloomberg visited Howard Beach last night to quell racial tensions. "We will have no tolerance...