Judge tosses Queens-led City of Yes lawsuit
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A 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.
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Flight 587 families mark 24th anniversary
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Families 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 MoreQueens elects three new councilmembers, sends all incumbents back to office
/Queens elected three new representatives to the City Council on Tuesday, while also sending all Council incumbents on the ballot back to the legislature for another four years.
Read MoreCrawling out of ‘The Hole’: City promises overhaul of neglected Queens-BK neighborhood
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Mayor Eric Adams and city officials unveiled a comprehensive plan to overhaul one of the city’s most neglected and troubled neighborhoods on Tuesday, a little more than two months before he is set to leave office.
Read MoreQueens GOP condemns Young Republicans’ ‘vile’ group chat
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Republican leaders in Queens distanced themselves from a group of Young Republicans who regularly used racial slurs, and antisemitic, sexist and violent language in a leaked Telegram chat reported by POLITICO this week.
Read MoreOne-on-one with mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa
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In a Zoom interview with the the Eagle this week, Sliwa said he firmly believes he has the ability to turn deep blue Queens red, and also discussed his campaign and his plans for New York City ahead of the November election.
Read MoreControversial proposed pipeline off Queens’ coast could make comeback
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An energy company is trying to resurrect a controversial and potentially harmful fracked gas pipeline that would run off the coast of Queens, and is being met with a familiar backlash after trying to build the pipeline three times before.
Read MoreCity defends City of Yes in court
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The city made its first defense of its sweeping but controversial plan to address New York City’s housing crisis known as the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity in a Staten Island courtroom on Wednesday.
Read MoreRockaway locals oppose boardwalk bike ban
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Some local cyclists in Rockaway Beach rallied in opposition to a Parks Department plan to ban two-wheeled vehicles on a busy stretch of the boardwalk this summer.
Read MoreMetropolitan Park gets another thumbs up from City Council
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The City Council passed a resolution on Thursday calling on the state to pass a bill that would allow New York Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on Citi Field’s parking lot.
Read MoreQueens-led coalition files lawsuit against City of Yes
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A Queens-led coalition of lawmakers and civic groups on Wednesday sued Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to stop the implementation of the City of Yes, the city’s largest zoning overhaul in decades which stands to serve as a major marker of Adams’ time in office, should it stand.
Read MoreCohen’s casino gets City Council approval
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The City Council on Wednesday approved New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Citi Field.
Read MoreQueens get the power: Officials from the World’s Borough rise into positions of power in city and beyond
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For 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 MoreQueens councilmember to lead Republican caucus
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Queens Councilmember Joann Ariola will take over the mantle as minority leader of the City Council’s Republican caucus, around a week after her colleagues attempted to install Staten Island Councilmember David Carr as the next minority leader.
Read MoreCreedmoor to stay open as city begins to shut other migrant shelters
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The city will keep open one of its largest and most controversial migrant shelters as it moves to close over a dozen other shelters throughout Queens and the other four boroughs.
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