Queens community boards continue to diversify
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Queens’ community boards are getting younger and more diverse.
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The World’s Borough welcomes the World Cup in Jackson Heights
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On Thursday, Paseo Park in Jackson Heights buzzed with soccer fans and wandering locals who joined one of the city’s first watch parties on 34th Avenue as Mexico and South Africa hit the field to kick off the 2026 World Cup.
Read MoreQueens to host nearly a dozen free World Cup watch parties
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Watch the World Cup in the World’s Borough at one of nearly a dozen free watch parties happening across Queens over the next month.
Read MoreQueens has a bright future, officials say
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Borough, city and state officials said they were optimistic about the future of Queens at a forum held at New York Law School on Wednesday.
Read MoreApplications open for free Queens 2-K seats
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Southeast and Central Queens parents can now apply to get their kids into the city’s new 2-K program.
Read MoreEndless construction on the Van Wyck may soon come to an end
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A construction-free Van Wyck? Officials say, you better believe it.
Read MoreQueens’ beaches open for summer season
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Queens’ beaches opened to the usual fanfare on Friday as locals and elected officials celebrated the start of the summer beach season ahead of the holiday weekend.
Read MoreFirst buildings open in massive Willets Point redevelopment
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City officials and private developers cut the ribbon on Willets Point Commons, an 880-unit affordable apartment complex on the outer edge of what will one day be an entirely new neighborhood in Willets Point.
Read MoreRecruitment flyers for controversial Jewish group spotted in Queens
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Flyers calling for recruits to join a far-right Jewish group once dubbed a terrorist organization by the FBI were recently spotted in Queens, plastered to a parking meter across the street from the office of the borough’s top cop.
Read MoreRockaway breaks ground on massive Arverne East housing project
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Officials broke ground on a new Queens housing development on Friday at a site nearly the size of similar housing projects at Creedmoor and Willets Point combined.
Read MoreNew York Foundation for the Arts funds Queens artists’ work
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More than 100 other Queens artists who had their work funded last month through the Queens Arts Fund.
Read MoreTeen shot and killed in Southeast Queens park
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A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in Roy Wilkins Park in Southeast Queens on Thursday.
Read MoreEtihad Park hits milestone as Willets Point blooms
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The final steel beam was placed atop Etihad Park in Willets Point on Wednesday, marking a major milestone in not just the stadium’s construction, but that of the new neighborhood soon-to-be built in Queens.
Read MoreMr. Richards goes to Albany: BP calls on state leaders to help with city budget woes
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards wants the state to raise taxes on millionaires and corporations in order to meet the city’s budget deficit and stave off what he says would be catastrophic consequences for the borough caused by the property tax increase threatened by the mayor.
Read MoreSchool zone speed limits to dip to 15 mph following Sammy’s Law
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Speed limits around schools in Queens and across the city will dip to 15 miles per hour in an effort to make traversing streets safer for New York’s students, the mayor announced from Flushing on Monday.
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