Queens riders rejoice LIRR return after strike
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Long Island Rail Road riders in Queens rejoiced on Tuesday as the nation’s busiest rail line started up again after a worker strike suspended train service for three days.
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LIRR strike causes massive headaches in Queens
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Queens, home to four times as many LIRR stations as the rest of the boroughs combined, felt the pain on Monday as the LIRR workers’ strike entered its third day – and first weekday.
Read MoreQueens officials relieved after mayor axes property tax increase threat
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Property tax increases that officials claimed would have greatly harmed Queens residents will not be included in the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday as he rolled out his $124 billion executive spending proposal.
Read MorePrison watchdog agency lacks enough commissioners to fulfill duties
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While an expansion of the state’s prison oversight agency went into effect over the weekend, the agency cannot function until the governor and legislature appoint new board members, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreQueens community board demands role in Aqueduct redevelopment plan
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The community board with jurisdiction over the 100-acre Aqueduct Racetrack site up for redevelopment wants a seat at the table as the state crafts a master plan that could entirely reshape a corner of Southern Queens.
Read MoreState to begin redevelopment of massive Aqueduct Racetrack site
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The state this month will begin planning its redevelopment of Queens’ Aqueduct Racetrack, which is set to be one of the largest empty plots of state-owned land when the horse racing complex closes its tracks for good in June.
Read MoreAssembly candidate posts AI deepfake of Hevesi days after fraud accusation
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Days 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 MorePilots dead and dozens injured after plane crashes into firetruck on LaGuardia tarmac
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Two airline pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured after a plane crashed into a firetruck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.
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 MoreAdvocates call for more funding for atty student loan relief programs
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As budget negotiations heat up in Albany, a group of legal aid advocates are making a push for legislation that would expand attorney student loan forgiveness.
Read MoreNY chief judge faces ethics complaint from GOP lawmakers
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A group of Republicans in Albany this week filed a formal ethics complaint against New York’s top judge, claiming he went too far in advocating for the passage of a sentencing reform bill during a symposium in Queens last month.
Read MoreLawmakers propose boost to civil legal services fund
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The state legislature this week proposed boosting a civil legal services fund in its one-house budgets that attorneys say was severely underfunded in Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposal.
Read MoreCivil legal service fund go unchanged in gov’s budget amendments
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Despite bar associations and legal organizations across the state urging the governor to expand a public fund for civil legal services, the governor made no changes to the budget item in the slate of amendments to her proposed financial plan released last week.
Read MoreMamdani threatens property tax increase to balance budget if state won’t fill gap
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani threatened to dramatically raise property taxes in order to balance the city’s budget if the state does not raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents and corporations.
Read MoreGovernor faces more calls to expanded civil legal services funding
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Over 100 bar associations and legal organizations called on the governor to fully invest in a public fund for civil legal services, and warned staff cuts would follow if funding wasn’t secured.
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