City to explore building new precinct in Northeast Queens
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City Hall has committed to exploring the possibility of bringing a new police precinct to Northeast Queens.
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NYCFC officially begins city review of Willets Point stadium plans
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The city, a group of developers and the New York City Football Club officially kicked off their bid to bring New York City’s first-ever soccer stadium to Queens this week.
Read MoreInnovation QNS developers commit to making 40 percent of units affordable
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The developers behind Innovation QNS, a massive, five-block development proposed for Astoria, have committed to making 40 percent of the project’s approximately 2,800 housing units permanently affordable, the Eagle has learned.
Read MoreCity Planning Commission to vote on Innovation QNS next week
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The City Planning Commission will vote next week on the controversial Innovation QNS development planned for Astoria.
Read MoreRichards rejects Innovation QNS
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Another blow to Innovation QNS. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards rejected efforts from developers to reshape five blocks in Astoria in an advisory recommendation this week.
Read MoreInnovation QNS commits to lowering affordable units’ rent
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The developers behind Innovation QNS, a controversial, five-block neighborhood rezoning in Astoria, told the Queens borough president in writing that they’d make an unspecified number of their affordable units rent for 30 percent of the area median income.
Read MoreIn-NO-vation QNS: Massive development in Astoria voted down by local community board
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The local Astoria community board denied developers’ request to reshape five-city blocks in the neighborhood, known as Innovation QNS, on Tuesday. The meeting was tense, as was the rally that saw supporters and opponents of the project clash face-to-face beforehand.
Read MoreInnovation QNS rejected by local land use committee
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The first of many votes to come on the massive Innovation QNS project slated for Astoria did not go developers’ way Wednesday.
Read MoreInnovation QNS faces first community board hurdle
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The developers behind Innovation QNS began the city’s land use review process in earnest Wednesday night, presenting its most concrete plan for the massive five-block development in Astoria to this point.
Read MoreInnovation QNS begins city’s review process
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The developers behind Innovation QNS, a massive, multi-block development planned in Astoria, moved this week to officially subject the project to the city’s review process.
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City files land use application to actually close Rikers jails
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The map change would officially close Rikers jails by 2026.
Read MoreCity reduces 2026 detainee population estimate ahead of Council’s jail vote
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The new estimate reflects the expected impacts bail reform and other state criminal justice reform measures on the number of pretrial detainees in the city’s jails.
Read MoreDistricting quirk means Queens has key role in final Close Rikers plan
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A quirk of community districting gives Queens outsized influence on the final closure of the nine isolated and outdated jails on Rikers.
Read MoreCity map change would forever ban Rikers jails
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The proposal comes amid growing pressure from progressive opponents of the plan, which would create a new 1,150-bed jail in every borough but Staten Island.
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