Queens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with violating the Council’s anti-discrimination and harassment rules for a series of Islamophobic remarks she posted to social media.
Read MoreA bill introduced by a Queens assemblymember that would create a reentry program for New York’s prisoners to prepare them for their eventual release began making its way through the state legislature on Wednesday.
Read MoreA man was arrested for an alleged antisemitic attack on a Queens rabbi in Forest Hills on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read MoreLeaders of the state court’s system on Tuesday called for a nearly $200 million budget increase to boost their spending up to $3.2 billion in the coming fiscal year.
Read MoreBrooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hasn’t represented Queens since he left the City Council in 2021. Even then, he only represented a small sliver of the World’s Borough.
Read MoreQueens 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 MoreManhattan Councilmember Julie Menin was unanimously elected to be the next speaker of the City Council on Wednesday.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani continued with his string of administrative appointments on Wednesday, announcing a longtime civil rights attorney will lead the City’s Commission on Human Rights.
Read MoreBrian Romero, who is running to succeed his former boss in the State Assembly, was endorsed by immigration nonprofit Make the Road Action New York this week.
Read MoreThe Queens Democratic Party nominated Democratic socialist Diana Moreno to succeed Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the State Assembly, her campaign announced Monday.
Read MoreThe union representing Rikers Island’s correction officers is suing the city for reinstating forced 12-hour shifts, arguing officials illegally used an emergency order to revive the longer tours.
Read MoreQueens 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 MoreAttorney General Letitia James’ office will not bring charges against the two NYPD officers who shot and killed Queens teenager Win Rozario in his family’s home last year while he was allegedly in the throes of a mental health crisis.
Read MoreNew York City’s judges go through a heavy vetting process before they can serve, but advocates say not much is known about what criteria gets them to the bench.
Read MoreWhile a majority of voters in Queens cast a ballot for Mamdani, others voted for former Governor Andrew Cuomo or Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. But a handful of those voters got a little more creative.
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