Mayor Eric Adams wouldn’t confirm or deny Tuesday if he plans to nominate attorney Randy Mastro to serve as the city’s next top attorney – but that didn’t stop the mayor from defending the embattled potential nominee.
Read MoreOfficers from the NYPD shot and killed a man on Roosevelt Avenue over the weekend, marking the second time police have fatally shot a person in Queens in a month.
Read MoreAs an unprecedented criminal trail got underway in Manhattan on Monday, the court system announced it would be taking a similarly unprecedented step in bringing the trial to the press and the public.
Read MoreSocrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City opened up a unique administrative space made up of storage containers over the weekend.
Read MoreA group of Western Queens elected officials are fighting against a Parks Department plan to evict a popular composting site in their community.
Read MoreNew York’s legal community has responded with outrage after the governor decided to move forward with a sweep of a pot of money meant to fund civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers.
Read MoreAfter months of calls for more power in policing illegal smoke shops, city officials finally got their wish by way of the state budget.
Read MoreA group of over a dozen city councilmembers this week called on the Adams administration to reverse its decision to up the number of beds in Queens’ yet-to-be-built borough-based jail facility.
Read MoreA bill that aims to increase safety protections for judges and court staff has officially been included in the state’s tardy budget.
Read MoreDespite seeing improvements during a recent visit to Rikers Island, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards says he believes no amount of refurbishment will be enough to justify keeping the troubled jail complex open – and that a federal takeover of the jail should remain on the table.
Queens College on Tuesday became the fifth full-time location for CUNY Citizenship Now!, an effort which provides free legal assistance for immigrant students and their families.
The city’s Department of Correction unlawfully recorded all calls made and received by detainees in the city’s custody, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreSeveral members of the New York State Senate, Assembly and City Council gathered Sunday morning in Eastern Queens to honor the late former Assemblymember and Queens community leader Nettie Mayersohn.
Read MoreIt is likely the concert season at Forest Hills Stadium will start on time this year, after a Queens judge ruled against a group of locals hoping to at least delay the start of concert season while the court considers their allegations that the venue has lowered quality of life in the residential neighborhood.
Read MoreJustice was at the center of Borough President Donovan Richards' State of the Borough Address on Friday, where the BP laid out plans to make the technology industry, housing and the environment more equitable for the people of the World’s Borough.
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