Queens’ criminal court gets new top judge
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Court officials announced on Wednesday that Queens Supreme Court Justice Michelle Johnson will serve as Queens Supreme, Criminal Term’s next top judge.
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Candidate will remain booted from third party ballot line in closely-watched Queens Senate race
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A Queens judge last month upheld a ruling from a lower court that may have an impact in a potentially tight race for an Eastern Queens State Senate seat.
Read MoreGov sends $35 million to state’s DAs to prevent domestic violence
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City district attorneys will each be getting a portion of a $35 million pot allocated in the state budget this year to improve work in preventing domestic violence, which includes $1.4 million for the Queens DA.
Read MoreMeet the DA’s newest hire – Kimi, the companion dog
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The Queens district attorney’s office has a new employee – a support dog who has already begun to aid crime victims and witnesses recounting stressful and traumatizing experiences inside Queens’ Criminal Court.
Read MoreMayor taps corp counsel nominee and appoints chief counsel amid legal woes
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City Hall has been operating with two of its top lawyer positions vacant, even as a whirlwind of legal troubles has engulfed the mayor and his administration over the past several weeks.
Read MoreJFK redevelopment reaches milestone
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Construction was topped off at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s $4.2 billion new Terminal 6 on Tuesday.
Read More‘Won’t be able to serve’: Adams attempts to go back to business as usual in Queens – but residents aren’t so convinced
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Speaking publicly in Queens for the first time since being indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, Mayor Eric Adams announced from the World’s Borough that the city was patching up its water supply – he also appeared to be trying to patch up his relationship with New Yorkers.
Read More‘I cried that whole night’: Families say DOC did little to tell them their loved ones died on Rikers
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A City Council bill discussed Friday would define the procedures the DOC and Correctional Health Services – the branch of the city’s hospital system that provides medical care on Rikers Island – should take to notify an incarcerated person’s emergency contacts when that person is seriously injured, hospitalized or attempts suicide.
Read MoreQueens DA employee arrested for plot to blow up Elmhurst migrant shelter
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In a wild tirade to another person inside Queens Criminal Court, a now-former paralegal with the Queens district attorney’s office outlined his plan to use explosives on migrants living at a shelter next to his apartment.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams charged with bribery
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Eric Adams became the first New York City mayor in modern history to be criminally charged while in office on Thursday.
Read MoreChinese national found guilty of murdering Queens lawyer
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A Chinese national was found guilty last week of murdering her former lawyer two years ago inside his Queens office.
Read MoreCohen's casino plan to begin city review while questions about state approval remain
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Mets owner Steve Cohen officially submitted his plan to bring a casino and entertainment complex to Citi Field’s parking lot to the city for review this week.
Read MoreQueens pols call on state to fund long-desired Far Rock trauma hospital
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Queens electeds and locals want the governor to help fund a potential new trauma center on the far-flung Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreAG won’t bring charges against officer who didn’t call for help as detainee died
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The state attorney general’s office said last week that it would not bring charges against a former correctional officer on Rikers Island who failed to help a detainee while he died of a fentanyl overdose in 2022.
Read MorePedestrian-only lane on crowded Queensboro Bridge delayed
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The city's Department of Transportation said this week that the opening of the pedestrian-only lane on the Queensboro Bridge will again be delayed, a month after they told the Eagle that "no changes to the timeline" of the project had been made.
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