Queens Dems back Cuomo
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The Queens County Democratic Party and its chairman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, officially backed former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor over the weekend.
Read MoreCuomo and Speaker Adams backed by split Southeast Queens coalition
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Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
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 MorePols want city to put brakes on QueensWay as QueensLink is studied
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Queens officials want the city to slow down construction of a linear park on an old elevated train line in the borough that could potentially stop the line from being reactivated for transit.
Read MoreDecades in the making, Southeast Queens’ 116th Precinct opens
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After a four-decade campaign filled with starts, stops, delays and broken promises, Southeast Queens residents celebrated on Wednesday the opening of the new 116th Precinct in Rosedale.
Read MoreScooter wars: Speaker wants city to press ‘pause’ on scooter share program
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Queens officials are calling for the city Department of Transportation to put a temporary “pause” on an electric scooter sharing program it recently rolled out in several Queens neighborhoods, which the officials claim has proven to be unsafe.
Read MoreQueens tenants sue state agency over handling of notorious landlord
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Tenants in three Queens neighborhoods are suing the state after it greenlit rent increases requested by their landlord, who the tenants say inflated the costs of building improvements to justify the allegedly unfair rent hikes.
Read MoreChief judge backs pair of criminal justice reform bills
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New York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Read MoreQueens CB9 honors 50-year member Sylvia Hack
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Queens Community Board 9 honored member Sylvia Hack for half a century of community service on Tuesday night.
Read MoreMayor wants faith organizations to build affordable housing
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Mayor Eric Adams made a trip to Queens on Friday to announce a faith-based housing initiative that would allow houses of worship to more easily build affordable housing.
Read MoreStreet named for late Queens assemblymember
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Family, friends and former colleagues gathered on Sunday in Kew Gardens Hills to re-name a corner of Main Street in honor of late Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 45.
Read MoreQueens pols push bill to close illegal pot shops but details are hazy
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Queens elected officials and advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on Friday in support of a bill that they say will help the city crackdown on illegal pot shops – but just how that crackdown would look under the bill remains unclear.
Read MoreQueens pols push One Fair Wage in Albany
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On Monday, State Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas rallied with advocates in Albany for her One Fair Wage bill, which would equally compensate tipped workers like restaurant staffers.
Read MoreThe wheels on the bus go ‘round a new route: MTA unveils latest effort to overhaul Queens’ bus network
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Queens bus riders got a look at the latest – and final – proposed plan for the Queens Bus Network Redesign, which was unveiled by the MTA on Tuesday.
Read MoreLIRR service changes following Queens pols complaints
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The Long Island Railroad says that service changes are coming to Queens stations in Kew Gardens and Forest Hills after four electeds complained that recent train schedule changes have made their constituents’ commutes tougher.
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