Former community board chair and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams returned to her home turf in Southeast Queens on Thursday – now as a candidate for lieutenant governor.
Read MoreOfficials are pouring more than $8 million dollars into three projects to help prevent water from pouring into Queens’ streets.
Read MoreTorrential downpours and consistent rainfall bore down on Queens over the weekend, flooding streets and blocking major highways even after the city has spent over a billion dollars in recent years on flood-mitigation efforts.
Read MoreBorough, city and state officials said they were optimistic about the future of Queens at a forum held at New York Law School on Wednesday.
Read MoreFor 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 MoreTensions were high and lines were long at poll sites across Queens as ballot-scanning machines spit out ballots back at people hoping to cast their vote in Tuesday’s election.
Read MoreA meeting in Queens was the second overall meeting of Mayor Eric Adams’ recently-convened Charter Revision Commission, but the first planned to take public input. But one thing was largely missing for the Wednesday meeting at Queens Borough Hall – the public.
Read MoreQueens residents got a rare celestial view on Monday afternoon as around 90 percent of the borough’s view of the sun was covered by the moon.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul delivered her 2024 State of the State address, discussing issues like affordability, housing and mental health. Her wider goals, outlined in a 180-page document, included a handful of plans that are specific to or stand to affect Queens.
Read More“A year when parks will be safer, greener and more accessible in every single season throughout the year.”
Read MoreIn April, Queens native and military veterans Everett Palmer turned himself in to police for a DUI warrant in Pennsylvania. Two days later he was dead. Nearly six months later, Palmer’s family, friends and local leaders are still searching for answers to how and why Palmer died in police custody.
Read MoreNew York City recorded an all-time low unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, according to the newly released August employment report by the New York State Department of Labor. But hundreds of thousands of residents continue to struggle to pay rent or earn a living wage.
Read MoreMake: magazine took over part of Queens’ Flushing Meadows Corona Park to host the World Maker Faire New York 2018.
Read MoreAn analysis of New York Division of Criminal Justice Services data from 2014 through June 2018 by The Marshall Project reveals that, though turnstile arrests have dropped dramatically, a disproportionate amount of the people arrested for fare evasion — 89 percent — are black or Hispanic.
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