Elmhurst Hospital residents poised to strike if deal is not reached
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Residents and interns at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens are scheduled to strike on Monday if a deal is not reached before then
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Jail oversight board bungles monthly meeting – again
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The Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.
Read More‘Their loss is not forgotten’: Officials pitch bill to fund futures for kids who lost parents to COVID
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As the federal government’s emergency COVID-19 declaration came to end on Thursday, a group of families, doctors and lawmakers gathered in the Queens neighborhood that was once the epicenter of the pandemic and called on New Yorkers not to forget them, or the loved ones they lost.
Read MoreQueens doctors strike averted following midnight deal
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Resident doctors at Flushing and Jamaica Hospitals reached an eleventh hour deal with the hospital system, MediSys, late Sunday night, narrowly avoiding a strike that would have begun just seven hours later.
Read MoreFederal Queens pols urge Biden to expedite migrant work authorization
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With fears that the asylum seeker crisis in New York City may worsen with the ending of Title 42, a majority of the city’s congressional representatives signed a joint letter addressed to President Joe Biden looking for his help in allowing the migrants to work.
Read MoreKatz expands business program to Astoria
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Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz is expanding her business improvement program to Astoria.
Read MoreLocals get first look at Willets Point soccer stadium
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Developers and city officials unveiled new plans for phase two of the massive Willets Point redevelopment project on Wednesday, including renderings of the first-if-its-kind soccer stadium that will soon be home to the New York City Football Club.
Read MoreQueens pols tout abortion protections in state budget
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Queens officials and advocates rallied in Long Island City on Thursday, celebrating the inclusion of abortion access protections in the final state budget. HMH Part U, a proposal from Queens State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Queens Assemblymember Nily Rozic was included in the state budget and contains provisions for protecting abortion access in New York following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Read MoreQueens congressman indicted on federal fraud charges
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Queens and Long Island Congressman George Santos fraudulently told campaign contributors that the money they were donating to him was going toward his bid for election when instead he used the funds to line his own pockets, federal prosecutors said in a 13-count criminal indictment unveiled on Wednesday.
Read MoreFilm and television writers strike in Queens
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It’s not Hollywood, but Queens is a film and television town, too. Writers in the World’s Borough picketed in front of one of Queens’ three studios this week.
Read MoreAfter decades of false starts, Willets Point development begins to come together
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The first phase of the Willets Point redevelopment is finally coming together.
Read MoreCourt rules against Queens redistricting lawsuit
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A State Supreme Court judge rejected late last week a lawsuit from Queens residents alleging that the New York City Districting Commission unfairly drew council redistricting lines that split Queens’ South Asian communities.
Read MoreProtestors debate with Aubry over casino bill
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Protestors went back and forth with State Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry this weekend over his bill to clear the way for Mets owner Steve Cohen to put a casino on the Citi Field parking lot.
Read MoreParole reform gets final push before end of legislative session
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With just several weeks left before the end of the state’s legislative session, hundreds of criminal justice reform advocates rallied in Albany in support of two bills that would alter the state’s parole process for elderly incarcerated individuals.
Read MoreDoes Flushing need a bus depot? Lawmaker says, ‘yes’
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A Queens lawmaker says she has a solution for the congestion caused by city buses in Downtown Flushing.
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