The state’s top court concluded cases at a faster rate in 2025, continuing a trend that has begun to emerge under Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, according to a new report.
Read MoreAn entirely different type of starting gun was fired at Aqueduct Racetrack this week as the state began soliciting public feedback about what to do with the massive plot of state-owned land when it becomes empty later this year.
Read MoreWhile New Yorkers and potential visitors are bracing for transportation headaches when the World Cup comes to town in June, City Hall is hoping to ease the pain and speed up buses in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreProperty tax increases that officials claimed would have greatly harmed Queens residents will not be included in the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday as he rolled out his $124 billion executive spending proposal.
Read MoreA Queens representative proposed legislation that would give migrants the option to attend legally-mandated court appearances virtually and potentially avoid arrest by federal immigration officers. But the bill faces an uphill climb in the conservative legislature.
Read MoreWhile an expansion of the state’s prison oversight agency went into effect over the weekend, the agency cannot function until the governor and legislature appoint new board members, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreOne-on-one with city’s new close Rikers czar Dana Kaplan.
Read MoreTop judges from Queens and the city’s other four boroughs came together on Monday afternoon to celebrate the court’s most highly visible workers, the court officers of the Unified Court System
Read MoreQueens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino’s fight with the City Council is over after both sides agreed to drop their respective cases against the other over anti-Muslim comments she made online.
Read MoreSeveral swastikas were found spraypainted in two Queens parks on Monday, a week after antisemitic graffiti was sprawled on a synagogue and a Jewish Center in the borough.
Read MoreNearly 30 years ago, a jury found Chad Breland guilty of two Far Rockaway home invasion robberies, despite his claims that he did not commit the crimes.
Read MoreThe community board with jurisdiction over the 100-acre Aqueduct Racetrack site up for redevelopment wants a seat at the table as the state crafts a master plan that could entirely reshape a corner of Southern Queens.
Read MoreLegal Aid Society offices across all five boroughs faced a new push from labor organizations to increase their workers’ salaries, this time with non-attorneys leading the picket lines.
Read MoreLocal officials and religious leaders rallied Tuesday outside a Queens synagogue defaced with swastikas earlier this week, where they condemned the incident and called for more efforts to protect New Yorkers.
Read MoreThe city has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to the families of two men who died on Rikers Island of methadone overdoses, including one man from Queens whose family said the Department of Correction hid information about their loved one’s death.
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