The Queens Bus Redesign will – finally – launch on Sunday
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More than half a decade after it was first pitched, the MTA officially announced the launched the long-awaited redesign of the Queens bus map on Thursday.
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Bill to grow New York’s courts unlikely to pass in Albany
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A popular bill that would remove the population limit on new judicial seats appears unlikely to make it through the state legislature this year, but lawmakers say their plan to make a drastic change to the state’s constitution is very much alive.
Read MoreBill to push back mandatory retirement age for judges moves through Senate
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A constitutional amendment that would extend the mandatory retirement age for New York’s judges began making its way through Albany on Wednesday.
Read MoreLawmakers call for the end of ‘predatory’ court fees
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State lawmakers and legal advocates rallied in Albany on Tuesday for a new bill that would eliminate a host of administrative fees associated with criminal court proceedings.
Read MoreAlbany offers two visions for Supreme Court expansion
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Judges and legislators across New York agree – the state needs more trial court justices across its courts to address the ever-growing case backlog plaguing the state’s court system.
Read MoreQueens 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.
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