The city’s Department of Investigation is looking into the recent spate of deaths of New Yorkers while in the NYPD’s custody, police officials said during a City Council hearing on Monday.
Read MoreNew York’s court leaders have called for expanded civil legal services for years. But in the face of massive federal funding cuts for social services enacted earlier this year, they said last week that the funding has never been more desperately needed.
Read MoreJoseph Antos, a 44-year-old lifelong Whitestone resident, was named as the next Queens historian by Borough President Donovan Richards last week.
Read MoreThe boss of a top New York City public defense group tried to break up her organization's own attorney union by urging a lawyer to launch a competing one, union leaders alleged on Friday.
Read MoreA Texas man was charged in Queens with making terroristic threats after he allegedly made several menacing phone calls and wrote Islamophobic and exploitative-laced emails to Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, earlier this year.
Read MorePolice Commissioner Jessica Tisch has served misconduct charges against the two officers who shot and killed Queens teen Win Rozario in his home last year, a step that may or may not lead to the officers’ being disciplined in the future, the NYPD said.
Read MoreThe plan to rezone and redevelop 54 blocks of Long Island City came before the City Council on Wednesday where the local representative whose opinion on the project matters the most still isn't fully onboard.
Read MoreThe family of one of the nearly half dozen men to have died on Rikers Island this summer said in a court filing that the city caused the man’s death by failing to get him mental health treatment before he committed suicide, according to court documents.
Read MoreThe final public hearing for Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Northern Queens was ended abruptly on Tuesday by the state committee tasked with reviewing it after a clash between community members opposed to the project and the committee's top official.
Read MoreThe City Council on Tuesday celebrated its victory over the Adams administration, successfully suing to prevent a mayoral executive order allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Rikers Island from taking effect.
Read MoreThe organization that took over Queens Defenders legal defense contract continues to see problems, after union members took to the picket line again in response to new work policies.
Read MoreA Long Island man was arraigned on murder charges in Queens this week after he allegedly purposefully drove his car into a family on Roosevelt Avenue, killing a teen after she and her mother rejected the man’s demands for sex.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender organization called on the Department of Investigation last week to probe the spike in deaths of those held in NYPD custody.
Read MoreThe city’s first-in-the-nation right to counsel program has failed to live up to its potential after years of underfunding and mismanagement have left around three quarters of eligible New Yorkers without full legal representation in Housing Court, a new report shows.
Read MoreQueens’ Democratic establishment has yet to endorse Democratic mayoral nominee and Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani after Governor Kathy Hochul threw her weight behind the local candidate over the weekend.
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