An NYPD officer recently violated the city’s sanctuary city law and gaps in the department’s policies leave it vulnerable to similar violations in the future, a new report from the New York City Department of Investigation found.
Read MoreA Queens community board is calling on the Adams administration to make good on a pledge to explore bringing a new police precinct to Northern Queens before they leave office.
Read MoreA 38-year-old man on Rikers Island became the 13th person this year to die in Department of Correction custody, agency officials announced on Friday.
Read MorePolice Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to stay on as the city’s top cop when Zohran Mamdani takes office as mayor in January, honoring the mayor-elect’s wish that the NYPD boss remain in the role as a new administration comes into City Hall.
Read MoreA Staten Island judge threw out the Queens-resident led lawsuit against the city’s wide-reaching rezoning plan to address the housing crisis on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe city’s OneLIC neighborhood plan received unanimous final approval from the City Council on Wednesday in a vote that comes as the city at large turns pages on a mayoral administration and on how housing will be built in Queens and beyond.
Read MoreFamilies of the victims of Flight 587, which went down in Queens 24 years ago this week, commemorated the anniversary of the crash in Rockaway on Wednesday.
Read MoreSince Queens became a part of New York City in 1898, none of the 23 men who served as the city’s mayor were born in Queens or represented the borough in political office. On Election Day, that is likely to change.
Read MoreThe notorious floating jail complex off Rikers Island known as “The Boat” is being moved south to be turned into scrap metal.
Read MoreThe city’s plans to transform large swaths of two of Queens’ most bustling neighborhoods both cleared Council votes on Wednesday, setting the stage for the rezoning of nearly 300 blocks of the World’s Borough to encourage the construction of nearly 27,000 new homes.
Read MoreThe NYPD’s wide-reaching surveillance apparatus is unconstitutionally spying on New Yorkers, a new federal suit alleges.
Read MoreAll three mayoral candidates made their final pitches to Queens voters on Sunday as polls opened to historic early voting turnouts over the weekend.
Read MoreA question over the city’s plan to close Rikers Island and build four new borough-based jails as its replacement sparked one of the most contentious moments of Wednesday’s mayoral debate, the last before early voting gets underway this weekend.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams endorsed former Governor Andrew Cuomo to be his successor on Thursday hours after the two sat together courtside at a Knicks game, and just a few weeks after the current mayor called Cuomo a “snake and a liar.”
Read MoreAttorneys from the Legal Aid Society argued in court Wednesday that police officers weren’t justified when they made the stop that ultimately led to the shooting death of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller in Queens last year.
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