Nearly 100 candidates file petitions to run in Queens
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Nearly 100 people in the World’s Borough have submitted petitions to appear on the ballot in June’s primary elections for Assembly, State Senate and Congress.
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Mamdani got Queens’ support on election day – can he now get it from his Queens colleagues?
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Queens Assemblymember and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani may have convinced the majority of voting New Yorkers to back him in the primary elections – but convincing his fellow Queens electeds to back him has proven a different story.
Read MoreQueens pols call on gov to back Right to Shelter rules
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As New York City and the Adams Administration – with support from Governor Kathy Hochul – fight the city’s Right to Shelter rules in court, a host of local electeds including, several from Queens, penned a letter to Hochul this week calling on her to keep the mandate in place.
Read MoreLocal pol’s Israel bill creates controversy in Queens
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Astoria Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently introduced "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” a bill that would stop tax-exempt registered nonprofits in New York from helping to fund the State of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations. That legislation is now garnering condemnation from dozens of his legislative colleagues who have called it antisemetic.
Read MoreMcGuire picks up first endorsement from Southeast Queens lawmaker
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Assemblymember Vivian Cook is backing Ray McGuire for mayor.
Read MoreDiscrimination lawsuit against Assemblymember Vivian Cook will proceed to trial
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“I think the Assembly tried to whitewash the issue.”
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