Decades of the city’s failed attempts to develop a long-polluted corner of Queens appeared to come to an end on Thursday as the City Council overwhelmingly voted to approve a plan to bring affordable housing and the city’s first soccer stadium to Willets Point.
Read MoreThere were two sets of varying expectations resting on the shoulders of the New York Mets and their owner as the team kicked off its 2024 baseball season in Queens on Friday.
Read MoreThe City Council on Tuesday voted to override the mayor’s veto of a bill aimed at increasing transparency in the NYPD and a bill to ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails, putting to an end a weeks-long public debate riddled with accusations from both councilmembers, Mayor Eric Adams and his allies that the other side purposely were spreading half-truths or outright lies.
Read MoreNew York City Football Club pitched their pitch to the borough president Wednesday as the team continued its efforts to get the city to approve its plans to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium in the center of what will one day be a completely new neighborhood in Western Queens.
Read MoreCommunity Board 7, which includes Willets Point and other areas of Eastern and Northern Queens, voted 37 to 2 to approve the project, marking the first thumbs up on the city’s review process that will play out over the coming months and culminate with a vote in the City Council.
Read MoreSeveral months after the Adams administration gave the boot to longtime vendors selling their wares without a license in Corona Plaza, the mayor’s office announced that a new program will soon be put in place to allow a select number of unlicensed vendors to return to the once bustling plaza.
Read MoreThe 2024 election for Queens’ Assembly seats may be a ways away – but that hasn’t stopped a number of incumbents and challengers from starting up their campaign efforts. Recent filings with the state’s Board of Elections show a number of potentially interesting Assembly races slated for next year in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreA Queens locale known for its vibrancy and culture was the site of a late night city crackdown on illegal vendors last week, done with little notice to the vendors or local elected officials, who held a rally on Wednesday protesting what they said was heavy-handed enforcement from the city.
Read MoreThe first phase of the Willets Point redevelopment is finally coming together.
Read MoreTake a look at who has started raising money in the upcoming Queens City Council races.
Read MoreWillets Point will soon be home to the city’s first soccer stadium, which will serve as the home field to the reigning MLS champion New York City Football Club.
Read MoreOfficials continue the search for a new home for La Jornada, a major food pantry in Western Queens that was evicted from its headquarters in a Flushing NYCHA complex at the end of last month.
Read MoreThe new class of city councilmembers voted to elect Queens City Councilmember Adrienne Adams as the speaker of the City Council on Wednesday.
Read More“I am honored by all those in the [City Council] who put their faith in me.”
Read More“If we're going to build a city that takes care of the most vulnerable New Yorkers, then we have to give them a really direct tool in their toolbox.”
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