Fans ready to bet on future of the Mets
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Optimism was abound for both the Mets and their casino-pursuing owner as the baseball team began their season in Queens.
Read MoreOne year later, family of Queens teen shot by police say they have few answers
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The family of Win Rozario, a Queens teenager who was killed by two police officers while experiencing a mental health crisis, has yet to receive any answers about the 19-year-old’s death a year after he was shot in his parents home.
Read MoreJudge drops criminal case against Adams
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A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, putting to an end the legal saga that threw City Hall into crisis for the better part of the last half year.
Read MoreRikers deaths continue to mount
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The Department of Correction’s death toll continued to climb at a rapid rate this week after a 27-year-old died on Rikers Island on Monday night after allegedly suffering from a medical emergency.
Read MoreQueens senator agrees to back Cohen’s casino at Citi Field
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A Queens lawmaker over the weekend said he’d introduce a bill that would allow New York Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on Citi Field’s parking lot in exchange for a longshot promise to build a pedestrian bridge over Flushing Creek.
Read MoreQueens Dems back Cuomo
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The Queens County Democratic Party and its chairman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, officially backed former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor over the weekend.
Read MoreQueens Defenders faces uncertain future after city cuts major contract
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Queens Defenders, the World’s Borough’s largest public defender organization, is facing an uncertain future after the city said that it no longer trusted the firm to carry out the promise of a $32 million contract to provide criminal defense to low-income New Yorkers in Queens.
Read MoreQueens Defenders staff unionizes following controversial director’s ouster
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Paralegals, legal assistants and other support staffers at Queens Defenders have begun to unionize, an effort that began almost immediately after the organization’s longtime, controversial leader was booted from her post earlier this year.
Read MoreDays after commission issues plan to close Rikers, mayor charts his own path – with few details
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Two days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.
Read MoreWoman becomes fourth Rikers detainee to die in 2025
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A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time in a month – and the second time in a week – that a Rikers detainee has died.
Read MoreCity cannot shut Rikers by 2027, landmark report finds
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In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the city to meet.
Read MoreCity launches major plan to rezone Downtown Jamaica
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The city this week rolled out its ambitious plan to redevelop a major section of Downtown Jamaica, two years after it first began exploring the idea of overhauling the area that has been plagued by decades of disinvestment.
Read MoreRikers detainee becomes third to die in less than a month
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A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail complex in less than a month.
Read MoreLongtime community board leader and 9/11 first responder dies at 70
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Eugene Kelty, Jr., a former firefighter who helped lead the evacuation of downtown Manhattan on 9/11 and who served as the longtime chair of Queens’ Community Board 7, died over the weekend after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.
Read MoreCourt officials say plan to reduce population on Rikers shows early signs of success
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A pilot program from the state’s court system meant to reduce the ballooning population on Rikers Island has seen early successes, officials claim.
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