All four Democratic candidates seeking to represent parts of Western Queens and Northern Brooklyn in Washington say they support the idea of funding a massive redevelopment of Sunnyside Yard with federal money – but are wary of who they may have to do business with in order to get the project over the finish line.
Read MoreA lottery to win one of one thousand $50 tickets to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium will soon open exclusively to New Yorkers.
Read MoreTwo detainees died on Rikers Island in quick succession of each other on Monday and Tuesday as the jail’s top officials were across the Atlantic, touring jails in Europe.
Read MoreA coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreWhile New Yorkers and potential visitors are bracing for transportation headaches when the World Cup comes to town in June, City Hall is hoping to ease the pain and speed up buses in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreProperty tax increases that officials claimed would have greatly harmed Queens residents will not be included in the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday as he rolled out his $124 billion executive spending proposal.
Read MoreOne-on-one with city’s new close Rikers czar Dana Kaplan.
Read MoreThe city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed effort to shutter the dangerous jail complex without a clear path forward.
Read MoreInitially announced as a paid event in December, the Queens Fan Zone at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be free to enter for World Cup fans.
Read MoreThe city’s largest criminal legal aid organizations joined a national protest on Thursday, warning the constitutional right to counsel is being “systematically dismantled” as public defenders across the country struggle to keep up with mounting cases.
Read MoreQueens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to support a controversial redesign of a busy Astoria strip.
Read MoreMore than 100 other Queens artists who had their work funded last month through the Queens Arts Fund.
Read MoreOutside Brooklyn Housing Court on Monday morning, tenant organizers and legal aid attorneys led a rally on the courthouse sidewalk in support of expanding the city’s Right to Counsel program, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Comptroller Mark Levine toured inside.
Read MoreLong Island City residents say they are still in the dark about Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump’s $21 billion plan to build over ten thousand homes atop Sunnyside Yard, a proposal that caught many by surprise when it was announced in February.
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