Three years after Governor Kathy Hochul kickstarted the state’s effort to build a 14-mile light rail connecting Queens and Brooklyn, the Interborough Express was officially moved from the planning to the design and engineering phase.
Read MoreOver a thousand public defense attorneys ended a labor dispute with the city’s largest legal aid organization when they voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement on Thursday.
Read MoreWhile the threat of a mass legal aid strike in the city has passed, over 100 attorneys and staffers at a trio of legal services providers have remained on the picket line with little hope of returning to work any time soon.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams vetoed a bill that would have eliminated criminal penalties for street vendors that the City Council passed with a veto-proof majority in June.
Read MoreIllegal truck parking has long been a thorn in the side of Queens residents – but relief may finally be on the way.
Read MoreFollowing the deaths of two men in courthouse holding cells earlier this year, the City Council is considering a bill that would require the city to build health clinics in all of its criminal courthouses.
Read MoreQueens officials gathered on Monday at Queens Borough Hall to speak out and condemn the anti-immigrant policies of President Donald Trump as the administration gets closer to revoking the temporary protected status of thousands of New Yorkers.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards gave his green light to the city’s massive rezoning plan for Long Island City on Monday.
Read MoreA new major development proposal from the city plans to reclaim 80 acres of closed off wetland in College Point to create thousands of units of Queens housing and park land.
Read MoreA former Rikers Island guard was convicted of felony charges after prosecutors say he planted a weapon inside the cell of a detainee he had recently beat up.
Read MoreResorts World New York City unveiled a slew of new details about its plans to transform its South Queens “racino” into what would be the largest casino in the United States last week.
Read MoreAn appeals court last week overturned a murder conviction after finding that the defendant’s constitutional rights were violated when a Queens judge kicked his drowsy friend out of the courtroom.
Read MoreThe Legal Aid Society reached a tentative labor agreement with its attorneys’ union Wednesday afternoon, likely ending the threat of what would have been the largest public defender strike the city has seen in three decades.
Read MoreFederal prosecutors say that since being cuffed last month, Rashad Ruhani, a one-time senior legal advocate at the legal services nonprofit, has done little to prove that he should be allowed to bail out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Read MorePrisoners continue to be illegally held in solitary confinement a month after a judge ordered prison officials to comply with state required prisoner protections, legal advocates said.
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