The Board of Correction on Tuesday spent around an hour of its meeting engaged in an internal power struggle instead of discussing the top item on its agenda – the crisis regarding the city’s stalled plan to close Rikers Island by 2027.
Read MoreAssembly Speaker Carl Heastie made a trip to the World’s Borough to announce his approval of a $2.53 million plan to develop a new park at the Pomonok Houses, the first major development at the public housing complex residents say they’ve seen in over 70 years.
Read MoreThe number of detainees who have had to wait three years or longer on Rikers Island while their cases sluggishly make their way through the court system has increased by nearly 180 percent in the last half decade, according to a new report.
Read MoreLess than two years ago, Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato’s election night returns party wasn’t the most joyful place to be on the Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreA 23-year-old Rikers Island detainee died Sunday night after experiencing a medical emergency that her attorneys say went ignored by jail staff.
Read MoreWhile construction may begin within the next several years on the state’s massive plan to redevelop the Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility campus, new documents show it may be decades until the project is completed.
Read MoreTensions got hot at a recent meeting to discuss the city’s City of Yes of Housing Opportunity.
Read MoreThree Queens library branches currently under construction and previously at risk of not reopening, will soon open their doors as a result of new funding included in the recently passed city budget, the Queens Public Library system said on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, who is perhaps Mayor Eric Adams’ closest elected ally, is exploring a run at the city comptroller’s office.
Read MoreFor the first time in nearly seven months, the city’s Department of Correction on Tuesday appeared before the federal judge currently considering whether or not the city should be stripped of its control of Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex that has seen over two dozen deaths in the past two years.
Read MoreThe family of a Bayside man who died on Rikers Island last year is suing the city’s Department of Correction after the agency allegedly wrongly withheld information about the man’s death.
Read MoreDepartment of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie says she can reform the jails on Rikers Island, but decades of dysfunction suggests otherwise.
Read MoreWhen Mayor Eric Adams announced the city had made a budget agreement last Friday, he chose to highlight one specific budget note in one specific Queens neighborhood; the Rockaway peninsula trauma center.
Read MoreDrivers on certain streets in Queens are going to need to slow down in the near future as the city begins to implement a state law designed to increase safety on city streets.
Read MoreDan 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.
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