Paralegals, legal assistants and other support staffers at Queens Defenders have begun to unionize, an effort that began almost immediately after the organization’s longtime, controversial leader was booted from her post earlier this year.

The summer concert season at Queens Forest Hills Stadium was cast into doubt this week after the NYPD said they wouldn’t issue permits or police the streets around the controversial music venue this year.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.

Conflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.

Two days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time in a month – and the second time in a week – that a Rikers detainee has died.

Supporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.

Several local Queens electeds and City Comptroller Brad Lander are calling on the city not to renew a contract with a borough hotel linked to an alleged illegal kickback scheme.

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the city to meet.

The city this week rolled out its ambitious plan to redevelop a major section of Downtown Jamaica, two years after it first began exploring the idea of overhauling the area that has been plagued by decades of disinvestment.

“The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is a well-intentioned but deeply flawed approach that threatens to impose an unbearable financial burden on working-class families and the small businesses that drive New York’s economy.”

“Speaker Adrienne Adams and the City Council have delivered a comprehensive approach to address every aspect of this crisis with their City for All plan.”

“Proposition 1 might sound good on the surface, but voters need to carefully examine this proposition’s broader implications, and understand what is really lurking behind its flowery title and optimistic wording.”

“Access to sexual and reproductive healthcare should be guaranteed for New Yorkers — not dependent on who is in office. Without Prop 1, New Yorkers may very well face deadly consequences.”

"I support the Treatment Not Jail Act, legislation that promises to extend the healing my team witnesses every day to thousands of justice-involved individuals across New York state who might otherwise be serving a jail or prison sentence."

"While many questions need to be asked, one thing that is not up for dispute is the fact that the cost of hospital care is driving our rising healthcare costs and having a detrimental effect on our economy and American families."