An interim deal has been reached between the Parks Department and a Black led nonprofit at Roy Wilkins Park that will allow the organization more freedom with programming and events within the Southeast Queens open space.
Read MoreAn city councilmember in Jamaica wants the mayor to create a task force to address quality-of-life issues in the Southeast Queens neighborhood as it undergoes a major redevelopment plan.
Read MoreTensions over who is to blame for the troubling conditions at a Southeast Queens park and community center came to a head Monday night when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards got into a shouting match with a local organizer.
Read MoreThe mayor’s sweeping and controversial plan to address the city’s housing crisis known as the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity cleared its final and highest hurdle on Thursday when it was approved by the New York City Council.
Read MoreAs temperatures begin to fall in New York City, worries have begun to mount in Southeast Queens as one of the only recreational centers in the area has been without heat for weeks.
Read MoreSeveral elected officials from Queens say they’ve had enough of large, commercial trucks parking on the borough’s residential streets, and that they want the NYPD to start enforcing the illegal practice.
Read MoreElected officials primarily from Northeastern Queens gathered in Bayside this week and imagined a world where the mayor’s controversial City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal becomes a reality – and they don’t like how it looks.
Read More“The trucking industry plays a critical role in sustaining the city that never sleeps. Yet, our city streets are not currently set up to support this.”
Read MoreA group of over a dozen city councilmembers this week called on the Adams administration to reverse its decision to up the number of beds in Queens’ yet-to-be-built borough-based jail facility.
Read MoreTwo neighborhoods in Queens are home to a large percentage of the city’s migrant shelters and while locals say they are happy to help amid the crisis, they also want the city and other neighborhoods to step up.
Read MoreIn a rare show of unity, a bi-partisan group of city councilmembers, including several from Queens, penned a letter calling on the state to give the city more power to enforce illegal cannabis.
Read MoreIn just under a month, Queens voters will head to the polls to cast votes in their local City Council elections.
Read MoreNearly a year after the mayor announced that his administration was choosing to build a park over a 3.5 mile strip of abandoned rail that cuts through Central and South Queens, a group of supporters hoping to revive the rail line rallied at City Hall on Wednesday.
Read MoreA controversial Queens affordable housing development was approved by the City Council on Thursday after being changed at the last minute from offering 100 percent affordable rental units to 100 percent home ownership units, addressing concerns raised by the local councilmember.
Read MoreSome Queens bus riders are going to get a free ride starting in September as part of a new MTA pilot program included in the state’s budget and championed by Queens officials.
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