"Your Queens News Now" provides Time Warner Cable subscribers in Queens with local news and information specific to their communities. Each hour, NY1's Queens viewers get specialized coverage ranging from politics to the arts.
Michelle Park
Anchor/Reporter
Michelle Park joined NY1's Your Queens News Now staff in 2007. In addition to her work with the Queens unit, she reports on the city's top restaurants, bars and nightclubs, and covers February and September's New York Fashion Weeks.
Before joining NY1, Park worked as a reporter in Trenton and an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles. She also spent time as an editorial assistant and associate producer at KNBC in Los Angeles.
In her spare time, she teaches in the Media Studies department at Queens College, and enjoys finding new restaurants – from fine dining establishments to dives – around the city.
She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University.
Rocco Vertuccio
Anchor
Brooklyn native Rocco Vertuccio joined NY1 as an anchor for "Your Queens New Now" in February of 2009.
For eight years prior to joining NY1, Vertuccio was an anchor/reporter with NY1's sister station, R News in Rochester, where he covered breaking news, politics, and feature stories.
Earlier in his career Vertuccio worked as an anchor/reporter at ABC affiliate WUTR-TV in Utica, New York.
He earned his degree in Broadcasting at Arizona State University.
Jon Weinstein
Anchor/Reporter
Jon Weinstein joined NY1 in October of 2007 as a freelance anchor/reporter for both "Your Staten Island News Now" and "Your New Jersey News Now." He became an anchor/reporter for "Your Queens News Now" in August of 2008.
Prior to joining NY1, Weinstein was a freelance sports reporter with News 12 The Bronx and News 12 Brooklyn. He previously worked at WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont, where he reported out of Washington D.C. He also worked at WLIU-FM on Long Island and begin as an intern with WNBC TV's sports department and the Fox Soccer Channel.
He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.