Despite funding questions, MTA rolls on with the IBX
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While funding for the ambitious Interborough Borough Express is still in limbo, the MTA is going full throttle on the proposed Brooklyn-Queens connector.
Read More‘Quite confused’: SEQ left out of illegal truck parking pilot despite being plagued by the issue
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When the Department of Transportation last week announced a new pilot program to address illegal truck parking, a group of elected officials in Southeast Queens were not only shocked to hear that their neighborhoods weren’t included in the program, but that there was even a pilot in the works at all.
Read MoreQueens-led coalition files lawsuit against City of Yes
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A Queens-led coalition of lawmakers and civic groups on Wednesday sued Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to stop the implementation of the City of Yes, the city’s largest zoning overhaul in decades which stands to serve as a major marker of Adams’ time in office, should it stand.
Read MoreForest Hills Stadium concert season in doubt following NYPD decision
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The summer concert season at Queens Forest Hills Stadium was cast into doubt this week after the NYPD said they wouldn’t issue permits or police the streets around the controversial music venue this year.
Read MoreCuomo and Speaker Adams backed by split Southeast Queens coalition
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Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
Read MoreDOT, City Hall give conflicting tales about delayed Queensboro Bridge pedestrian lane
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Conflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.
Read MoreMonserrate off ballot again – for now
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Supporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.
Read MoreComptroller, Queens electeds call on city to cut contract with indicted Fresh Meadows hotel operator
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Several local Queens electeds and City Comptroller Brad Lander are calling on the city not to renew a contract with a borough hotel linked to an alleged illegal kickback scheme.
Read MoreTrailblazing Black judge honored with postage stamp
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Queens Representative Greg Meeks and Appellate Division Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson helped unveil a postage stamp of trailblazing Black judge and politician Constance Baker Motley in Jamaica on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens candidates get more matching funds in crowded races for open seats
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Several Queens candidates in crowded races for the mayor’s office and the City Council were approved for matching funds by the city’s Campaign Finance Board on Monday morning, while some also announced massive fundraising hauls that will also soon multiply under the city’s matching funds program.
Read More‘We are alive’: COVID pandemic remembered at Elmhurst Hospital
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It has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number of health officials recognized the life-saving work of doctors and nurses at the “epicenter of the epicenter”
Read MoreThe Kings of Queens: Historic St. John’s Basketball season fuels local Queens campus community
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Queens’ St. John’s University men’s basketball team has achieved a lot this year, and one they hope to add too that success as they head into the Big East Tournament Thursday night, where they are the top seed. Should they win, it will be their first title in 25 years. It would also make them a team to beat in the upcoming NCAA March Madness tournament.
Read MoreQueens get the power: Officials from the World’s Borough rise into positions of power in city and beyond
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For about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a whole has been increasingly finding itself in.
Read MoreQueens hits five-year anniversary of first COVID case
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It’s been five years this week since the first confirmed case of coronavirus was reported in Queens, which would soon become the epicenter of the pandemic that has since killed at least 1.2 million people in the U.S.
Read MoreAdams grilled by Dems, mostly ignored by Republicans at sanctuary city hearing
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Congressional Democrats blasted Mayor Eric Adams over allegations that he agreed to help the Trump administration with its deportation efforts in New York City in exchange for the dismissal of the corruption charges federal authorities brought against him last year during an oversight hearing Wednesday.
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