More than half a million was raised by candidates in four of Queens’ most competitive races for the state legislature over the last two months, new campaign finance filings show.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreWestern Queens locals are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to collaborate with President Donald Trump to build 12,000 units of housing in the World’s Borough, where the mayor once lived and where the president was raised.
Read MoreQueens Assemblymember Steven Raga threw his hat into the race to replace Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris in the State Senate, setting up a battle between the progressive lawmaker and Democratic Socialists of America-backed Aber Kawas.
Read MoreQueens residents are calling on A&E Real Estate, which was named the worst landlord in the city earlier this year, to pay $6 million to cover damages they suffered in a fire that evicted them from their homes more than two years ago.
Read MoreState Senator Michael Gianaris, one of Queens’ most powerful envoys in Albany, will not run for reelection, he announced Monday.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul is allocating $5 million to Astoria’s Variety Boys & Girls Club to build a new clubhouse, expand the nonprofit’s programming and build new affordable housing, making the Astoria location the largest club in the country.
Read MoreNew 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 MoreThe State Senate this week passed a bill created in response to lobbying efforts in support of and against Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial pick for chief judge last year.
Read MoreNearly a fifth of all Queens residents behind bars in New York are 55 years or older – and despite being convicted at a far younger age, have few opportunities to advocate for their release, according to new data shared with the Eagle.
Read MoreDemocrats in the state legislature voted on Monday to toss out congressional redistricting lines drawn by a bipartisan commission, choosing to draw and propose their own maps – which have little impact on district boundaries in Queens.
Read MoreLeadership of the state’s court system asked lawmakers on Thursday to approve their proposed $2.7 billion budget, which comes in over 5 percent larger than their budget for the previous year.
Read MoreA growing number of elected officials are calling on freshman Democratic Assemblymember Juan Ardila to resign after two women accused him of sexual assault during a 2015 party shortly after he graduated from college.
Read More“I’m happy that they came out to support,” said Tsering Wangdu, whose 7-year-old daughter was recently fatally struck by a driver in Astoria. “In the park, we are like a family.”
Read MoreThe State Senate rejected Governor Kathy Hochul’s nominee for chief judge of the Court of Appeals in a surprise vote on Wednesday, putting an end to a constitutional standoff between the Democratic governor and Democratic majority in the legislature and marking the first time in New York State history a chief judge nominee has been rejected.
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