When Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out his $124 billion executive budget proposal last week, it did not include any continuing funds for a new trauma center on the Rockaway peninsula. Now, local officials are calling for the money to be restored in the city’s final fiscal agreement.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani announced the installment of a new heating system for a Queens NYCHA complex on Wednesday as a historic cold snap continues to freeze the city.
Read MoreA Queens judge heard arguments in a case brought by incumbent Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato against her Republican challenger, Thomas Sullivan, in the race to represent a portion of southern Queens and the Rockaway peninsula in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Read More“ZCFR is a game-changer for the residents and businesses who call New York City’s floodplain their home.”
Read MoreVeteran government official Selvena Brooks-Powers declared victory
Read MoreNew MTA bus service will deliver Queens residents to the borough's mass vaccine site at York College.
Read MoreIn a year like no other, Queens residents continued to fight for climate justice.
Read MoreFlooding will render more NYCHA, Section 8 and other subsidized homes unlivable in New York City than any other city in the country by 2050.
The New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings has fined a New Jersey construction firm $25,000, more than 15 months after a falling wall killed one of its workers in Arverne by the Sea.
Read More“We should not be adding to the population because we don't have the resiliency measures in place to protect us.”
Read More“Hurricane Sandy continues to serve as a painful reminder that we must continue to adapt to the ever-so-real threats of climate change. This includes updating our zoning to help New Yorkers build, and rebuild, more resiliently.”
Read MoreThe climate crisis threatens to submerge the Rockaway peninsula, flood low-lying communities and exacerbate health problems, particularly among low-income residents, in the borough of 2.3 million people.
Read MoreDrivers cruising down two busy Queens roadways will have to slow down in the coming months, the Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Read More“In 2020, renewable energy has become the cheapest way to generate power on planet Earth.”
Read MoreWith Queens residents stuck inside, nature has started to reclaim a bit of the borough. Just look to the sky.
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