After years of complaints, an over 100-year-old bridge connecting Queens and Brooklyn came one step closer to being replaced this week – but questions over the project’s total cost remain.
Read MoreIn a rare show of unity, a bi-partisan group of city councilmembers, including several from Queens, penned a letter calling on the state to give the city more power to enforce illegal cannabis.
Read MoreAfter years of debate over one of New York City’s most controversial political topics, the MTA officially passed its final congestion pricing plan on Wednesday morning.
Read MoreQueens members of the City Council’s Common Sense Caucus and Queens Assemblymember David Weprin rallied in support of a new lawsuit filed against the plan to bring congestion pricing to Manhattan.
Read MoreLeadership of the City Council on Thursday announced which councilmembers will be serving on which committees and which lawmakers will be in charge of them.
Read MoreThe watchdog group charged with keeping tabs on New York City’s jails says that the city needs to “recommit” to its plan to shutter Rikers Island, which has seen its average daily population grow by nearly 1,000 detainees in the past two years.
Read MoreJust over 22-years ago, nearly two dozen firefighters from Maspeth’s Squad 288 and HazMat 1 firehouse were killed after they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, marking the largest loss of life from any single firehouse that day. Now, local officials are trying to get the century-old building where they served designated as a city landmark in their honor.
Read MoreHours after Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Queens State Senator Michael Gianairis’ legislation to make early voting by mail a universal option available to New Yorkers, a group of Republicans and conservatives asked a court to put an end to the law before it can even be enacted.
Read MoreAn injunction has been filed by Queens and Brooklyn electeds and residents against a planned migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in South Brooklyn.
Read MoreLess than a week after nearly 60 New York City elected officials penned a letter to President Joe Biden calling for increased federal support in dealing with the migrant crisis, several of them rallied outside City Hall on Monday calling for Biden’s backing.
Read MoreA bridge located on 69th Street just off of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, has recently begun shedding debris, dropping rocks and other bridge parts onto the roads and pedestrians underneath it, according to City Councilmember Robert Holden.
Read MoreNYPD brass and Mayor Eric Adams unveiled three new tech projects for the department, including the return of the controversial “digidog”.
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