Council working on bill to push back Rikers Island closure deadline
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The City Council is currently drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers and replace it with four borough-based jails
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Staten Island’s flag just become law, Queens’ might be next
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The 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 MoreQueens councilmembers lead charge on e-bike regulations
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Several 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 MoreRockaway trauma center goes mostly unfunded in city budget
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Capital 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 MoreOpinion: The smartest public safety investment New York can make
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“Community-based alternatives to incarceration and post-release reentry programs are proving every day that public safety and decarceration are not competing goals.”
Read MoreFight continues to fund Far Rock trauma hospital
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Queens 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 MoreLawmakers demand details about Rikers grievance overhaul
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The 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 MoreRockaway breaks ground on massive Arverne East housing project
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Officials 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 lawmakers given top roles in new Council
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Queens 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 MoreFamily of man killed by police calls for officers’ firing after AG releases bodycam video
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The 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 MoreMenin voted speaker of City Council
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Manhattan Councilmember Julie Menin was unanimously elected to be the next speaker of the City Council on Wednesday.
Read MoreSpeed between Queens and Manhattan increased during congestion pricing’s first year, data shows
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Queens drivers heading into Manhattan are getting there faster and with less traffic, according to new data.
Read MorePols want more info on police shooting in Far Rock that left man dead
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A trio of Queens elected officials are asking for a full investigation into a police shooting that left a 29-year-old man dead in Far Rockaway over the weekend.
Read MoreLocals rally as ICE’s presence in World’s Borough grows
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Queens locals and elected officials rallied in Western Queens over the weekend to protest the federal detention of a 6-year-old and his father as immigration agents were spotted in two separate Queens neighborhoods.
Read MoreMajority of Queens members back Menin for speaker
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A broad coalition of Queens councilmembers signaled their support for Councilmember Julie Menin’s bid for speaker as the moderate Manhattan representative declared an early victory in the race on Wednesday.
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