Danielle Woodward is a reporter for Patch in New York City, where she covers all things Queens. She came to Patch from the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Northern Michigan, where she's covered business, features and education news. She's also been a copy editor and producer for the Arizona Republic and has written for the online news site, Addiction Now.
Danielle was born and raised on an island in Southeast Michigan (No, it's not as cool as it sounds.) and graduated from Michigan State University in 2015. She lives in Brooklyn with her one-eyed chiweenie, whom she loves more than most people.
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Mary Audrey Gallagher, mother to Councilman Daniel Dromm, was laid to rest Monday after she suffered a fatal heart attack on Jan. 4.
Two men pleaded guilty to slashing a 16-year-old girl's face on her walk to school, mistaking her for a teen they'd planned the attack on.
Police are searching for the suspect who battered a 59-year-old man's face in the subway argument gone awry.
The Douglaston Civic Association plans to sue the city to take away its control of state roadways like Northern Boulevard.
The Netflix hit series returned to Kew Gardens this week to shoot scenes for upcoming episodes in the former Queens Detention Complex.
Chase Bank picked Queens as one of two areas for an "Everyday Express" pilot, citing a high level of "tech-savvy" customers in the borough.
Chuck Schumer asked that JFK Airport be the first considered in a bill granting the new high-tech drug scanners to customs officers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced traffic deaths in Queens dropped by 9 percent, the most of any borough, in 2017.
The man slid a note demanding money to a teller at a Chase Bank in Ridgewood, police say.
The 60-year-old woman was found unresponsive after a blaze broke out in her Bayside home on Sunday, police say.
A man got 20 years in prison for trafficking drugs from Mexico to the U.S. and using a Queens jewelry store as a coverup for his profits.
The Queens Council on the Arts is giving two local artists $3,000 to work from and display their art in a borough hotel for three months.
Young Queens artists show what the borough's culture means to them in "Queens Gotta Have It," a pop-up exhibit showing Saturday and Monday.
The NYCHA scrambled to keep up with outages from the storm as hundreds of residents awoke without heat or hot water on Friday morning.
The man, who masked his face with a scarf, made off with $580 after demanding cash from the clerk, police say.
Make a light saber. Run a New Year's Resolution 5k. Learn how to draw live models with a beer in hand. Queens has something for everyone.
A local architect has spend years snapping photos of houses across Queens and comparing them to represent the borough's diverse population.
Harsh winds and white-out conditions led to thousands of flight cancellations and closed both airports on Thursday.
Developers are planning to build a 100,000-square-foot condo building in place of the now-shuttered Dena's Coffee Shop.
The two suspects swiped the woman's purse while chatting with her at a Sunnyside bar on Christmas Eve, police say.
