New York Foundation for the Arts funds Queens artists’ work
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More than 100 other Queens artists who had their work funded last month through the Queens Arts Fund.
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Advocates call on mayor to fully fund Right to Counsel
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Outside 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 MoreQueens residents still in the dark on Sunnyside Yard
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Long 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.
Read MoreCity to open long-delayed Bellevue jail ward as Rikers closure effort restarts
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The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a 104-bed unit that has sat unused since early 2025.
Read MoreCouncilmembers question Mamdani DOI pick on relationship with mayor
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Nadia Shihata, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the Department of Investigations, was questioned by councilmembers over her relationship with the mayor and her plans for the agency on Monday.
Read MoreAdvocates push city to revive long-ignored part of Rikers shutdown plan
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Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of Correction control, saying the city must revive a jail decommissioning process that came to a complete halt under former Mayor Eric Adams.
Read MoreCouncil and mayor at odds over budget
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council began to butt heads Wednesday over how to address the city’s multi-billion dollar shortfall after the Council released its response to the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal.
Read MoreDetainee dies on Rikers Island as new leadership takes over troubled jails
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A 39-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Thursday, marking the first death in the dangerous jail complex this year and the first since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.
Read MoreStaffing woes continue to stall opening of completed Bellevue jail ward
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The city still doesn’t have a timeline to open an already-constructed hospital jail ward meant to hold detainees with serious physical illness, despite new leadership in City Hall and the Department of Correction, who say they are fully committed to reversing the massive delay.
Read MorePilots dead and dozens injured after plane crashes into firetruck on LaGuardia tarmac
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Two airline pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured after a plane crashed into a firetruck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.
Read MoreMr. Richards goes to Albany: BP calls on state leaders to help with city budget woes
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards wants the state to raise taxes on millionaires and corporations in order to meet the city’s budget deficit and stave off what he says would be catastrophic consequences for the borough caused by the property tax increase threatened by the mayor.
Read MoreMayor unveils Office of Community Safety
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani took a step toward meeting a key campaign promise on Thursday, announcing the creation of an Office of Community Safety.
Read MoreSchool zone speed limits to dip to 15 mph following Sammy’s Law
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Speed limits around schools in Queens and across the city will dip to 15 miles per hour in an effort to make traversing streets safer for New York’s students, the mayor announced from Flushing on Monday.
Read MoreDA improperly indicted Jabez Chakraborty, attys allege
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The Queens district attorney’s office quietly brought charges against Jabez Chakraborty, a 23-year-old Queens man with schizophrenia who was shot by police during a mental health crisis in late January, denying his right to testify on his behalf, his lawyers allege.
Read MoreQueens judge dismisses most terroristic threat charges against man accused of threatening Mamdani
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Several major charges brought against a Texas man accused of making menacing phone calls and sending Islamophobic and expletive-laced emails to Mayor Zohran Mamdani were dropped Thursday after a Queens judge said the charges didn’t stand up to legal muster.
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