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.
Read MoreDays 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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Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreMayor 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.
Read MoreCity 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.
Read MoreA years-long legal saga between Forest Hills Stadium and the private New York City neighborhood the concert venue is located in came to an end this week, after the two groups struck a deal that allows concerts to continue and the neighborhood to profit from them.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani named a new executive director and senior legal officer to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday.
Read MoreSixteen 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe city’s Public Design Commission unanimously voted to table its vote on the design of a public-facing portion of the Metropolitan Park casino after a number of people testifying in opposition to the project on Tuesday raised concerns about the $8 billion complex’s impact on the local environment.
Read MoreThe trial for former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich, who is accused of taking over $150,000 in bribes while he served as a local lawmaker and as the city’s building’s commissioner under Mayor Eric Adams, officially began on Monday.
Read MoreA Queens father is suing the city and the NYPD, accusing officers of deliberately crashing into a moped his son was on while trying to make a stop.
Read MoreA Queens man already facing charges for allegedly killing an elderly woman in a car crash he caused is now facing hate crime charges for wrecking property outside a neighborhood bagel store that was flying Israeli flags.
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