Dan Garodnick, the chair of the CPC and the director of the Department of City Planning, spoke with the Eagle to discuss the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity.
Read MoreFollowing the drowning of two teens in the waters off of Rockaway Beach, locals are once again calling for increased safety measures along the borough’s and city’s shores.
Read MoreThe family of a 31-year-old man whose death in Department of Correction custody remains disputed over a year after it happened recently filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.
Read MoreTenants who lived in a Sunnyside building before it was destroyed by a fire late last year will receive another six months of temporary housing from their landlord, who faced public pressure in recent days to extend the tenants’ housing after initially threatening to end it.
Read MoreA little more than two years after Governor Kathy Hochul first introduced plans to build the Interborough Express, the future of her ambitious plan to build the much-needed public transit option for Queens and Brooklyn residents appears to be uncertain, almost entirely as a result of the governor's own 11th-hour pause on the implementation of the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.
Read MoreAfter being closed down for renovations last summer, the Astoria Park pool, the city’s largest swimming pool, mostly opened up to the public again Thursday, along with public pools throughout the five boroughs.
Read MoreShannan Ferry, a Little Neck native, recently took over as the anchor of “News All Day” on Spectrum News NY1.
Read MoreThe city’s Board of Correction on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve its rules for the implementation of a new law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreThe family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old shot and killed by police in his Queens home in March, announced their intent to sue the NYPD for wrongful death on Tuesday.
Read More“It’s about having a collective experience where we imagine together.”
Read MoreIt was mostly a good night Tuesday for the Queens County Democratic Party, whose candidates in primary races across the borough faced credible threats from insurgent candidates.
Read MoreNew York’s heat wave may have broken just before Tuesday’s primary elections, but a number of contested races throughout Queens had yet to cool down. Across the World’s Borough on Tuesday, a relatively small number of voters headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a number of hotly contested Democratic primary elections – and one Republican primary – in Queens.
Read MoreAfter three decades in Albany, Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry will retire at the end of his current term in December. Though he wrote and passed bills touching on a range of issues, Aubry was particularly focused on passing criminal justice-related bills during his time in the state capitol, which ended – at least, legislatively – earlier this month with the passage of the Jury of Our Peers Act in the final days of the legislative session.
Read MoreThe City Council on Thursday introduced a bill that they say would stop the city’s Department of Correction from recording calls made by detainees inside Rikers Island without first getting a warrant.
Read MoreThe New York City Bar Association on Tuesday released its ratings of judicial candidates running in competitive Democratic primary races throughout the five boroughs.
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