After years of headaches brought on by incessant bumper-to-bumper traffic, Queens residents may be able to look forward to smoother rides on the long-troubled and construction-plagued Van Wyck Expressway.

Days before Queens voters began casting ballots in this year’s general election, the City Council passed two pieces of legislation that aim to make it easier for detainees on Rikers Island to cast their ballots.

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New York ranks number one in the nation for food stamp fraud, but a new security initiative coming next year aims to cut back on the tens of millions of dollars in government benefits stolen each year, Queens officials said on Thursday.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined legislators and union members on Thursday to call for the passage of the Delivery Protection Act, which would regulate Amazon’s use of third-party delivery drivers.

City officials defended the conditions and policies at the embattled Borden Avenue Veterans’ Residence in Long Island City during a highly anticipated hearing before the City Council on Wednesday.

The owner of an illegal South Queens gambling den who loaned money to former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich had been pressuring the former politician for a position with city government before both got busted for bribery, recorded phone calls played during Ulrich’s trial on Wednesday showed.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a new executive director and senior legal officer to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday.

Sixteen people, including one man from Queens, were arrested as part of a statewide investigation into staged car accidents that the governor said resulted in more than half a million dollars in fraudulent insurance claims.

The battle between St. John’s University and its former faculty unions headed to court last week as a federal judge began to weigh whether state labor laws are applicable to the Catholic institution.

“In my practice, I have seen how a decision made in a moment can change the course of a young person’s life. “

“Community-based alternatives to incarceration and post-release reentry programs are proving every day that public safety and decarceration are not competing goals.”

“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.”