The co-founder and former executive director of Queens Defenders on Tuesday admitted in federal court to stealing over $100,000 from the taxpayer-funded nonprofit that provides legal defense services to New Yorkers who can’t otherwise afford it.
Read MoreTurnout was sluggish but voters who showed up to cast their ballot in the special election to fill Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s former Assembly seat were energized.
Read More“The road around there can become like a river,” said Felicia Johnson. “I’m concerned.”
Read MoreQueens City Councilmember Julie Won filed to run in the already crowded race to replace Nydia Velázquez in New York’s 7th Congressional District on Monday.
Read MoreTurnout in the special election to fill the Assembly seat vacated by Mayor Zohran Mamdani was already expected to be low – and that was before the city was smacked with a snow-filled cold snap that only made it less likely people would trudge their way to the polls.
Read MoreTwo of Queens’ longest-serving members of Congress sharply criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on Thursday, but stopped short of joining fellow Democrats calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul on Friday said that she would propose legislation that would prevent local police in New York from partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Read MoreMore than two years after city jail officials cut off nonprofit-led social services at Rikers Island, several organizations are set to return this month to provide new programming inside the troubled jail complex.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed Stanley Richards, the former head of The Fortune Society, to serve as the city’s next commissioner of the Department of Correction.
Read MoreA new lawsuit alleges that the NYPD has been practicing a new form of stop and frisk, pulling over and searching Black and Latino drivers at a disproportionate rate, most prominently in parts of Southeast Queens.
Read MoreThe City Council on Thursday overrode a mayoral veto of a bill that would explicitly bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from operating an office on any land owned by the city’s Department of Correction, including Rikers Island.
Read MoreA bill introduced by a Queens assemblymember that would create a reentry program for New York’s prisoners to prepare them for their eventual release began making its way through the state legislature on Wednesday.
Read MoreCivil legal services for New Yorkers could be severely reduced in the coming years if the governor does not increase the spending authority for a public fund that keeps legal nonprofits afloat, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreA man was arrested for an alleged antisemitic attack on a Queens rabbi in Forest Hills on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis” that rivals the Great Recession, blaming his predecessor for four years of shoddy budgeting practices that has left the city with a bleak financial outlook.
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