The MTA on Monday said that after years of starts and stops, drafts, final drafts, do-overs and approved plans, it finally has set a date for the implementation of its overhaul of Queens’ bus map.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards wants the city to get the Forest Hills Stadium concert season back on track after a permitting decision made by the NYPD last week cast it into doubt.
Read MoreIt has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number of health officials recognized the life-saving work of doctors and nurses at the “epicenter of the epicenter”
Read MoreFor about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a whole has been increasingly finding itself in.
Read MoreIt’s been five years this week since the first confirmed case of coronavirus was reported in Queens, which would soon become the epicenter of the pandemic that has since killed at least 1.2 million people in the U.S.
Read MoreAn interim deal has been reached between the Parks Department and a Black led nonprofit at Roy Wilkins Park that will allow the organization more freedom with programming and events within the Southeast Queens open space.
Read MoreQueens bus riders will soon see the MTA’s long-awaited bus route redesign take effect, over half a decade after the transit agency first began redrawing the public transit network in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreNew York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s $8 billion plan to bring a casino to Citi Field’s parking lot will head to the City Council for a vote after the City Planning Commission gave the project their stamp of approval last week.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed on Thursday reigning in New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a set of “political sanctions,” stopping short of removing him from office – for now.
Read MoreThe Department of Transportation on Wednesday yanked its approval of New York’s congestion pricing program, putting the future of the controversial toll into extreme doubt.
Read MoreThe massive migrant shelter on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in Eastern Queens will close in the coming weeks, state officials announced last week.
Read MoreAn city councilmember in Jamaica wants the mayor to create a task force to address quality-of-life issues in the Southeast Queens neighborhood as it undergoes a major redevelopment plan.
Read MoreTensions over who is to blame for the troubling conditions at a Southeast Queens park and community center came to a head Monday night when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards got into a shouting match with a local organizer.
Read MoreThe state’s plan to redevelop more than 50 acres of vacant land on the Eastern Queens Creedmoor campus drew the ire of several local elected officials last week.
Read MoreSix years after the MTA began redrawing Queens’ bus map, riders will finally begin seeing new routes hitting the streets as soon as June.
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