Several months after a group of landlords sued the state’s court system over its handling of eviction cases, a group of Queens-based organizations and the Legal Aid Society are attempting to put an end to the landlords’ lawsuit.
Electric, zero emissions buses are coming to Queens with the addition of 60 new buses to the city’s fleet, officials announced on Tuesday.
A pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil legal services work, just as she did in the state’s recently passed budget.
New York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Top NYPD officials had very little to say Thursday when questioned by the City Council about a series of antagonistic social media posts authored by some of the department's top brass in recent weeks.
The Adams administration’s 60-day shelter limit rule for families was poorly implemented and caused migrants to be haphazardly pushed out of the shelter system, a new report released this week claims.
Queens News
Hours after Mayor Eric Adams claimed on Tuesday that he reached out to the family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old from Queens who was shot and killed by NYPD officers inside his family’s Ozone Park home in March, Rozario’s family said they had yet to hear personally from the mayor.
Several months after a group of landlords sued the state’s court system over its handling of eviction cases, a group of Queens-based organizations and the Legal Aid Society are attempting to put an end to the landlords’ lawsuit.
Electric, zero emissions buses are coming to Queens with the addition of 60 new buses to the city’s fleet, officials announced on Tuesday.
A pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil legal services work, just as she did in the state’s recently passed budget.
New York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Top NYPD officials had very little to say Thursday when questioned by the City Council about a series of antagonistic social media posts authored by some of the department's top brass in recent weeks.
The Adams administration’s 60-day shelter limit rule for families was poorly implemented and caused migrants to be haphazardly pushed out of the shelter system, a new report released this week claims.
The family of 19-year-old Win Rozario on Wednesday condemned the NYPD, the mayor and the handling of a March trip to the family’s Ozone Park home by a pair of officers who shot and killed the teen a few minutes after arriving.
Queens’ borough-based jail set to be built in Kew Gardens will cost taxpayers at least $4 billion and may be completed four years after the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island, city records show.
The Adams administration officially began rolling out its controversial plan to rezone a large swath of the city, known as the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, last week.
Voices from Queens
“Queens deserves better than 50 acres of asphalt. We deserve a realistic solution based on facts. We deserve Metropolitan Park, and all the environmental solutions that come with it.”
“Hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in our state face the terrifying prospect of deportation and forced family separation, simply because they do not have access to legal representation in a complex and often unforgiving immigration system.”
“While we as citizens have the constitutional right to participate in our civic process on all levels, in New York State that opportunity is stripped from those people who are in jail waiting for their court dates.”
“We are convinced that Metropolitan Park is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for our area of Queens.”
“Much like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, New Yorkers find themselves trapped in a cycle of unchanging circumstances, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams' misguided budget priorities.”
As public defenders, we know that even low-level encounters impact New Yorkers’ core constitutional “right to be left alone.” Under the law, we have the right to refuse to answer questions or simply to leave these encounters. In reality, few people feel empowered to walk away from an armed police officer questioning them.
Hours after Mayor Eric Adams claimed on Tuesday that he reached out to the family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old from Queens who was shot and killed by NYPD officers inside his family’s Ozone Park home in March, Rozario’s family said they had yet to hear personally from the mayor.