Queens Councilmember Joann Ariola will take over the mantle as minority leader of the City Council’s Republican caucus, around a week after her colleagues attempted to install Staten Island Councilmember David Carr as the next minority leader.
Read MoreThe Avian flu, better known as bird flu, was found in a number of locations in Queens and several other boroughs last week.
Read MoreQueens’ legal community gathered this week in a courtroom decorated in red to celebrate the 2025 Lunar New Year.
Read MoreTensions over who is to blame for the troubling conditions at a Southeast Queens park and community center came to a head Monday night when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards got into a shouting match with a local organizer.
Read MoreSeveral days after the Queens Defenders’ founder and executive director was forced to go on leave by the organization’s board of directors, the public defense group has a new interim leader.
Read MoreThe monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report last week that a yet-to-be-implemented city law banning solitary confinement would “only exacerbate the current dangerous conditions” on Rikers Island.
Read MoreThe state’s plan to redevelop more than 50 acres of vacant land on the Eastern Queens Creedmoor campus drew the ire of several local elected officials last week.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the controversial executive director of the Queens Defenders, was forced to go on immediate leave by the group’s board of directors this week.
Read MoreSix years after the MTA began redrawing Queens’ bus map, riders will finally begin seeing new routes hitting the streets as soon as June.
Read MoreA new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its jails and prisons as the pandemic raged inside of them.
Read MoreThe NYPD and Queens district attorney’s office arrested and charged 10 alleged members of the international weapon trafficking gang Tren de Aragua this week.
Read MoreIt’s been over a year since lawsuits against New York State resulted in the first pay raises for assigned counsel attorneys in decades, but the Queens 18-B Assigned Counsel panel is still looking to bolster their numbers for 2025.
Read MoreThe New York City Department of Transportation wrapped up the first phase of community input sessions for the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway on a high note Tuesday night, but the communities along the proposed greenway are still split on the idea.
Read MoreThe competing developers behind Resorts World New York City’s casino expansion project and Metropolitan Park almost simultaneously this month opened new models and visual representations of their projects to the public.
Read MoreThe top judge in Queens’ Criminal Court laid out the successes and failures of the court in the last year and mapped out the road for the year ahead during the Queens County Criminal Bar Association’s State of the Judiciary meeting on Tuesday.
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