An alleged brothel that operated across the street from a Queens city councilmember’s office was shuttered Thursday after residents called on the city to crack down on prostitution in the area.
Read MoreThe former head of the city’s Department of Buildings said in court last week that Eric Ulrich asked her to help reopen a Brooklyn bakery connected to two men who have since admitted to bribing Ulrich in exchange for favors.
Read MoreFormer Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich used his influence in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to score his co-defendant’s daughter a high-paying job in the Department of Correction, recorded phone calls played in court on Tuesday showed.
Read MoreThe owner of an illegal South Queens gambling den who loaned money to former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich had been pressuring the former politician for a position with city government before both got busted for bribery, recorded phone calls played during Ulrich’s trial on Wednesday showed.
Read MoreThe trial for former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich, who is accused of taking over $150,000 in bribes while he served as a local lawmaker and as the city’s building’s commissioner under Mayor Eric Adams, officially began on Monday.
Read MoreThe Independent Rikers Commission is hoping to remind New Yorkers why the city first began to endeavor closing its dangerous jail complex, even if it has no shot at hitting the legally-mandated 2027 deadline to do so.
Read MoreCapital funding for a new trauma center on the Rockaway peninsula was left out of the city’s $126 billion budget passed by the City Council Tuesday, despite growing calls from the community to finance the project in the isolated area in Queens.
Read MoreThe city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long-delayed plan to shutter the troubled jail complex back on track.
Read MoreThe final beam was placed Wednesday atop the $3 billion Brooklyn borough-based jail, which will one day be the first facility to be completed as part of New York City’s long-delayed plan to close Rikers Island.
Read MoreDavid Orkin, a democratic socialist candidate for the State Assembly, alleged in a lawsuit that Queens Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar’s campaign forged petition signatures in an effort to get the incumbent on the ballot.
Read MoreDays after he was accused of fraud, Jonathan David Rinaldi posted an artificial intelligence-generated deepfake of his opponent, Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi, that appeared to push the limits of state law governing AI use in political campaigns.
Read MoreThe city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a 104-bed unit that has sat unused since early 2025.
Read MoreNadia Shihata, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the Department of Investigations, was questioned by councilmembers over her relationship with the mayor and her plans for the agency on Monday.
Read MoreA 49-year-old man from Queens awaiting trial on Rikers Island died on Sunday, becoming the second detainee in the troubled jail complex to die in the last week.
Read MoreThe 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.
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