Council working on bill to push back Rikers closure deadline
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The City Council is currently drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers and replace it with four borough-based jails
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Queens pol wants city to be more transparent about ambulance delays
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A Queens councilmember introduced legislation that she says would help notify New Yorkers when ambulances are delayed or unavailable.
Read MoreQueens councilmembers lead charge on e-bike regulations
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Several city councilmembers from Queens are leading the legislative body in its new push to crack down on the proliferation of illegal e-bikes and e-scooters increasingly seen on the city’s streets.
Read MoreQueens councilmember breaks with progressives on ICE abolition letter
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Only a single member of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus has not signed on to a popular letter calling on Democratic leadership to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreQueens lawmaker’s office windows shattered
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Queens Councilmember Phil Wong’s office windows were shattered this week after the lawmaker said his landlord received “threatening phone calls.”
Read MoreMayor, Council settle housing voucher lawsuit and pass $125 billion budget
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The end of a prolonged legal battle between the mayor’s office and the City Council over an expensive housing voucher program known as CityFHEPS was baked into the city’s colossal $125 billion budget, which was passed by the Council late Tuesday.
Read MoreCourts pick up pace, but hurdles to shrinking Rikers population remain, judge says
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Cases are moving faster through New York’s courts, reducing the amount of time defendants have to wait on Rikers Island – but a number of entrenched obstacles could make even quicker case processing difficult to achieve, the state’s top administrative judge warned last week.
Read MoreDOC boss defends proposed cut to difficult-to-fill officer jobs on Rikers
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The commissioner of the Department of Correction on Tuesday defended a nearly 600-officer cut proposed by the mayor, despite asking the City Council for more funds to hire and recruit officers only a couple of months ago.
Read MorePaladino settles with City Council over anti-Muslim posts
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Queens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino’s fight with the City Council is over after both sides agreed to drop their respective cases against the other over anti-Muslim comments she made online.
Read MoreLawmakers demand details about Rikers grievance overhaul
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The City Council this week demanded the Department of Correction answer long-ignored questions about how it's changed – or hasn’t changed – its often criticized process for fielding and addressing complaints detainees make about conditions on Rikers Island.
Read MoreCity misses deadline to release Rikers shutdown plan
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The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed effort to shutter the dangerous jail complex without a clear path forward.
Read MoreJudge declines to rule in Paladino case, questions Council’s harassment claims
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A Manhattan judge this week declined to rule from the bench on whether the City Council should halt its ethics case against Queens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino.
Read MoreCouncil and mayor at odds over budget
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council began to butt heads Wednesday over how to address the city’s multi-billion dollar shortfall after the Council released its response to the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal.
Read MoreCouncil seeks to dismiss ‘meritless’ Paladino suit
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The City Council is asking a judge to dismiss Queens Councilmember Vickie Paladino’s suit against the legislative body.
Read MorePaladino shoots back after ethics committee charges her for Islamophobic remarks
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Queens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino shot back after she was charged by the Council’s ethics committee over a slew of Islamophobic remarks she made on social media in recent months.
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