A group of Queens electeds and civic leaders are suing Mayor Zohran Mamdani over a Freedom of Information Law request demanding he explain his reasoning for eliminating an Adams administration executive order regarding the definition of antisemitism.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani threatened to dramatically raise property taxes in order to balance the city’s budget if the state does not raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents and corporations.
Read MoreA Queens judge decried the state’s mental health system on Friday during the arraignment of Jabez Chakraborty, a 22-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia who charged at a cop with a knife after his family called 911 for medical help last month.
Read MoreNew signage greeting travelers on the borough’s major thoroughfares reads “Queens is the Future,” a nod to the borough’s diversity, vibrancy, growth as a destination and rise as a political power.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani returned to his old Albany stomping grounds on Wednesday to ask for the state’s help in closing a $7 billion shortfall in the city’s budget.
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 MoreDiana Moreno was elected on Tuesday to replace Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the State Assembly, handily winning the three-way race in the low turnout special election.
Read MoreTurnout in the special election to fill the Assembly seat vacated by Mayor Zohran Mamdani was already expected to be low – and that was before the city was smacked with a snow-filled cold snap that only made it less likely people would trudge their way to the polls.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed Stanley Richards, the former head of The Fortune Society, to serve as the city’s next commissioner of the Department of Correction.
Read MoreA new lawsuit alleges that the NYPD has been practicing a new form of stop and frisk, pulling over and searching Black and Latino drivers at a disproportionate rate, most prominently in parts of Southeast Queens.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis” that rivals the Great Recession, blaming his predecessor for four years of shoddy budgeting practices that has left the city with a bleak financial outlook.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed Sharun Goodwin to lead the city’s Department of Probation, which has been led by controversial Commissioner Juanita Holmes for the past three years.
Read MoreAfter more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail system from City Hall, appointing a former CIA agent and correctional expert to assume sweeping authority over Rikers Island and the Department of Correction.
Read MoreA man who cops claimed was emotionally disturbed was shot by NYPD officers in Briarwood on Monday.
Read MoreThe World’s Borough was battered by an intense snowstorm along with much of the country over the weekend, leaving locals to dig themselves out of the mounds of powder and slush on Monday.
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