Five of the 12 communities in New York City that have seen the least amount of new, affordable housing over the past half decade are in Queens – and are now being targeted by the Mamdani administration for fast-tracked housing projects, angering some local legislators.
Read MoreSeveral Queens lawmakers say the city needs to do more to bring emergency resources to the borough’s far-flung communities on the Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreNearly two years after a social worker first alleged that correctional officers on Rikers Island regularly locked up detainees suffering from mental health issues for weeks or months at a time – cutting them off from healthcare, programming and other people in custody – the debate over the existence of the practice, known as “deadlocking,” continued during a City Council hearing Wednesday.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani laid out a broad plan to address safety on New York’s streets on Tuesday, featuring some ideas that have been strongly supported and championed by Queens officials for some time.
Read MoreThe City Council is currently drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers and replace it with four borough-based jails
Read MoreThe World’s Borough has had its blue and white, flower-adorned flag unofficially representing the county since 1913. It’s a beautiful but rogue banner with no legal legitimacy behind it. But that may soon change.
Read MoreSeveral city councilmembers from Queens are leading the legislative body in its new push to crack down on the proliferation of illegal e-bikes and e-scooters increasingly seen on the city’s streets.
Read MoreCapital funding for a new trauma center on the Rockaway peninsula was left out of the city’s $126 billion budget passed by the City Council Tuesday, despite growing calls from the community to finance the project in the isolated area in Queens.
Read More“Community-based alternatives to incarceration and post-release reentry programs are proving every day that public safety and decarceration are not competing goals.”
Read MoreQueens residents rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday to demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani work with the City Council to help fill a $150 million hole in funding to construct a much-desired trauma center on the far-flung Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreThe City Council this week demanded the Department of Correction answer long-ignored questions about how it's changed – or hasn’t changed – its often criticized process for fielding and addressing complaints detainees make about conditions on Rikers Island.
Read MoreOfficials broke ground on a new Queens housing development on Friday at a site nearly the size of similar housing projects at Creedmoor and Willets Point combined.
Read MoreQueens may no longer be in possession of the City Council speaker’s office, but several members of Queens’ Council delegation were appointed to significant leadership roles by Speaker Julie Menin on Thursday.
Read MoreThe family of a man shot and killed by police called for accountability after the state’s attorney general released footage of the fatal shooting on Tuesday.
Read MoreManhattan Councilmember Julie Menin was unanimously elected to be the next speaker of the City Council on Wednesday.
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