Several elected officials from Queens say they’ve had enough of large, commercial trucks parking on the borough’s residential streets, and that they want the NYPD to start enforcing the illegal practice.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards threw out a truly horrendous first pitch before a Mets game on Aug. 14. The Mets, however, would go on to win over 65 percent of their games after the toss.
Read MoreWith the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island now less than three years away, top court officials this week said that they plan to make a number of reforms in the city’s criminal courts in an effort to lower the jail’s population, which, as of now, is nearly twice as large as what can be held in Rikers’ replacements.
Read MoreA major developer has plans to build two nearly 50-story towers in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Central Queens – but locals want no part of it.
Read MoreThe family of a man who committed suicide on Rikers Island last year said in a new lawsuit that the city and its Department of Correction should be held accountable for the man’s death.
Read MoreIt will be some time before locals can bike and walk the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway, but the city started the development process with a public workshop on Tuesday.
Read MoreDetainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their needed medication and left to deteriorate, a former social worker on Rikers Island told the jails’ watchdog board on Tuesday.
Read MoreA former Rikers Island correctional officer was cuffed by federal authorities last week after prosecutors said she smuggled drugs into the notorious jail complex in exchange for cash payments from detainees.
Read MoreRepublican candidates challenging Queens Democratic state lawmakers in November’s general election are spending big, new campaign finance filings show.
Read MoreXiaoning Zhang, a Chinese national who was found guilty of murdering her former Queens-based immigration lawyer, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens’ waterfront will one day be connected from Long Island City to Fort Totten in Whitestone, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
Read MoreCourt officials announced on Wednesday that Queens Supreme Court Justice Michelle Johnson will serve as Queens Supreme, Criminal Term’s next top judge.
Read MoreA 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 MoreCity 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 MoreThe 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.
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