Two detainees died on Rikers Island in quick succession of each other on Monday and Tuesday as the jail’s top officials were across the Atlantic, touring jails in Europe.

Long Island Rail Road riders in Queens rejoiced on Tuesday as the nation’s busiest rail line started up again after a worker strike suspended train service for three days.

City officials and private developers cut the ribbon on Willets Point Commons, an 880-unit affordable apartment complex on the outer edge of what will one day be an entirely new neighborhood in Willets Point.

A coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.

Queens, home to four times as many LIRR stations as the rest of the boroughs combined, felt the pain on Monday as the LIRR workers’ strike entered its third day – and first weekday.

When Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out his $124 billion executive budget proposal last week, it did not include any continuing funds for a new trauma center on the Rockaway peninsula. Now, local officials are calling for the money to be restored in the city’s final fiscal agreement.

Steve Cohen’s New York Mets are off to a slow start this season – and so is his $8 billion casino project, which is already more than five months behind schedule.

The state’s top court concluded cases at a faster rate in 2025, continuing a trend that has begun to emerge under Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, according to a new report.

An entirely different type of starting gun was fired at Aqueduct Racetrack this week as the state began soliciting public feedback about what to do with the massive plot of state-owned land when it becomes empty later this year.

While New Yorkers and potential visitors are bracing for transportation headaches when the World Cup comes to town in June, City Hall is hoping to ease the pain and speed up buses in the World’s Borough.

“Families are being presented with a false choice: Send your children to a brand-new, $92 million facility, or continue using an aging building that has been allowed to deteriorate.”

“With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents and abolish Rikers once and for all. “

The Oklahoma-based Williams Transco company is proposing a pipeline through lower Hudson Harbor again. New York first rejected this pipeline in 2020, and now we must do it again. What’s good for a Tulsa gas company is terrible for Queens’ health and our wallets.

“For a corporate center that hosts more than a thousand employees every day — including staff at the Department of Corrections, Skanska, numerous firms and the headquarters of the Queens Chamber of Commerce — this change is more than an inconvenience. It is a step backward for our borough’s economy.”

“Metropolitan Park is a project that has been shaped by the people who live here. A steadfast partner of the community and Elmcor, Metropolitan Park has been intentional with its support for putting the community first. “

A LaGuardia Community College STEM grant program was cut by the Trump Administration and the professor is calling for it to be reinstated.