New York City and Queens County Bar Associations last week released their ratings for each of the four candidates running for the two open spots on the borough’s Civil Court bench.

On Thursday, Paseo Park in Jackson Heights buzzed with soccer fans and wandering locals who joined one of the city’s first watch parties on 34th Avenue as Mexico and South Africa hit the field to kick off the 2026 World Cup.

For the second time in around three decades, a Queens jury found Michael Robinson guilty of murdering his estranged wife last week.

A former Queens Defenders attorney who was wrongfully accused of smuggling drugs into Rikers Island is suing the city and the correctional officers’ union who levied the accusations against him, alleging he was unlawfully detained and defamed so the union could score political points.

Queens residents rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday to demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani work with the City Council to help fill a $150 million hole in funding to construct a much-desired trauma center on the far-flung Rockaway peninsula.

Over 1,000 attorneys could go on strike as early as July 1 unless the city makes considerable investment into their public defender organizations, union leaders warned on Wednesday.

A Queens Housing Court judge ordered the city’s “worst landlord” to fix the hazardous living conditions at a crumbling Elmhurst apartment by the end of the month or face consequences.

New York lawmakers sent a bill to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk that includes several major reforms to how the courts determine if defendants are capable of standing trial.

The dispute over the existence of “deadlocking,” or the practice of locking up detainees on Rikers Island for weeks or months at a time in violation of Department of Correction policy, cutting them off from health care, services and other people in custody, continued during a jail oversight meeting on Tuesday.

Watch the World Cup in the World’s Borough at one of nearly a dozen free watch parties happening across Queens over the next month.

“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.”

“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. “