Western Queens locals are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to collaborate with President Donald Trump to build 12,000 units of housing in the World’s Borough, where the mayor once lived and where the president was raised.
Read MoreCity Hall last week unveiled a plan it says will finally bring the city into compliance with long-suspended jail oversight rules and a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers Island.
Read MoreA Queens-raised official who manages the City University of New York’s finances was tapped by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to serve as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget on Thursday.
Read MoreFamilies of the victims of Flight 587, which went down in Queens 24 years ago this week, commemorated the anniversary of the crash in Rockaway on Wednesday.
Read MoreFormer Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he would build new “state-of-the-art” jails on Rikers island in lieu of the four borough-based jails currently being built, if he is elected mayor.
Read MoreThe City Council on Monday passed a bill that they say will bring transparency to the way the city’s Department of Correction announces and shares information about detainee deaths.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he believes the troubled jail complex could remain open and be repaired, rather than shuttered.
Read MoreThe city reached a major milestone last week in Willets Point when it completed construction of the structures of the first two buildings that will one day anchor the new neighborhood in Queens.
Read MoreThe Adams administration said late Tuesday that they will soon allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move critics say could violate New York City’s sanctuary city laws.
Read MoreOver three dozen people have officially been appointed to serve on the second iteration of the Independent Rikers Commission, the group that has again been tasked with mapping a plan to shutter Rikers Island’s jail complex.
Read MoreIt’s been two years since the city’s Local Conditional Release Commission was created – why is it still without a single commissioner?
Read MoreAround 230 incarcerated women and trans people will soon be transferred off of Rikers Island and sent to correctional facilities upstate, the governor announced.
Read More“It's a very tough pro-vaccination order.”
Read More“There will certainly be more tough choices ahead.”
Read MoreThe confusion began after the special election’s original date was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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