Hours before the holiday weekend, the federal monitor overseeing Rikers Island filed a “special report” alleging that Department of Correction brass wasn’t forthcoming about nearly half a dozen recent fatal or near-fatal incidents in the city’s jails.
Read MoreNew York City’s beaches opened to fanfare on Friday on Queens’ Rockaway peninsula where local leaders, residents and one giant bird rang in the start of summer season in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreThe promise of a Diwali school holiday in New York City has never been closer. But with only a handful of days left in the legislative session, hurdles remain.
Read MoreAfter two full days on the picket line, resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital have tentatively agreed to a new labor contract with their employers at Mount Sinai, ending the historic strike.
Read MoreYou can have a say in how “The People’s Money” is spent in Queens.
Read MoreA bill that would boost the number of Family Court judges in New York City began to advance through the State Senate this week.
Read MoreResident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital are on strike. It’s the first time doctors in the city have gone on strike in over three decades.
Read MoreGeorge Grasso, one of several Democrats challenging incumbent Melinda Katz in the upcoming primary election for Queens district attorney, said that if elected, he’d reform the way the top prosecutor’s office interacts with victims of crimes.
Read MoreNew York Mets owner Steve Cohen may be all in on his desire to bring a casino to Western Queens – but the house is going to make him wait on his pay out.
Read MoreThe APA Voice Redistricting Task Force filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the New York Independent Redistricting Commission in order to figure out why a draft version of their district that received widespread community support was scrapped at the final moments of a tumultuous redistricting process.
Read MoreJoseph Zayas, who spent two decades of his legal career in Queens, was officially named chief administrative judge of New York’s court system on Thursday.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams said that he would not take Rikers Island off the table as a potential place to house newly arrived migrants.
Read MoreAstoria 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 MoreA 52-year-old Rikers Island detainee died in a Queens hospital on Tuesday, several days after he was severely injured inside the jail.
Read MoreThe Department of Correction has told half a dozen organizations that provide services and programs to jailed New Yorkers that they will no longer be contracted to work with the agency come July.
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