Queens socialist pol announces bid for mayor
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Western Queens Assemblymember and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani officially launched his long-rumored bid for mayor of New York City on Wednesday.
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Queens pol throws hat into mayor’s race
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Queens State Senator Jessica Ramos is announcing that she will be running for mayor, joining a growing list of primary opponents to Mayor Eric Adams.
Read MoreJustice delayed: Lengthy stays on Rikers jump as cases slow in courts
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The number of detainees who have had to wait three years or longer on Rikers Island while their cases sluggishly make their way through the court system has increased by nearly 180 percent in the last half decade, according to a new report.
Read MoreQueens AM Rajkumar explores comptroller bid
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Queens Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, who is perhaps Mayor Eric Adams’ closest elected ally, is exploring a run at the city comptroller’s office.
Read MoreMayor’s 60-day shelter rule ‘haphazard’ and ‘arbitrary,’ says comptroller
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The Adams administration’s 60-day shelter limit rule for families was poorly implemented and caused migrants to be haphazardly pushed out of the shelter system, a new report released this week claims.
Read MoreCongestion pricing plan greenlit by MTA
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After 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 pols want big universities in NYC to pay their ‘fair share’
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A group of Queens lawmakers took aim at two of the city’s most powerful universities this week, demanding they pay their “fair share” of property taxes to directly fund their public counterparts.
Read MoreFamily of detainee who died on Rikers awarded $2 mil before filing lawsuit
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The family of a 35-year-old man who died by suicide on Rikers Island last year will be awarded over $2 million from the city before they’ve even filed a lawsuit, the New York City comptroller’s office announced on Friday.
Read MoreCouncil grills Adams admin over asylum seeker contracts
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The Adams administration was grilled by the City Council over its contracting practices during the ongoing migrant crisis on Thursday, which comes as one of the companies contracted to provide city services to asylum seekers comes under major scrutiny.
Read MoreMigrant crisis widens political rifts in Queens and beyond
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As the ongoing migrant crisis in New York City intensifies with no signs of slowing down, as has the rift between various sects of city electeds with different strategies for fighting it, splintering Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of a united front.
Correctional officer union sues city
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The union representing correctional officers working on Rikers Island sued the Department of Correction this week, alleging the agency illegally told officers to speak with the federal monitor responsible for tracking violence in the jail.
Read MoreTop city leaders stand side-by-side to call for migrant assistance
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An unlikely coalition joined an impassioned Mayor Eric Adams at a rally in Manhattan on Thursday urging the federal government to let asylum seekers legally work.
Read MoreBoard of Correction sues DOC over revoked video access
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The Board of Correction, the citizen watchdog board charged with providing oversight to the Department of Correction, sued the agency in an effort to regain unfettered access to video from within Rikers Island after DOC brass revoked the board’s ability to view it remotely earlier this year.
Read MoreGood government group calls for Rikers receivership
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Last week, good government group Citizens Union joined the a number of elected officials, advocates and others in calling for federal Judge Laura Swain to put the city’s notorious jail complex into a federal receivership, or a judicial order that could see the power to manage Rikers handed over to a court-appointed authority.
Read MoreLander asks city to call on courts to slow down eviction cases
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With new leadership at the top of the state’s courts, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is calling on the Adams administration to join him in his call for the courts to slow the pace of eviction cases in order to ease the demand on the city’s struggling Right to Counsel program.
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