Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed Sharun Goodwin to lead the city’s Department of Probation, which has been led by controversial Commissioner Juanita Holmes for the past three years.
Read MoreTwo Queens representatives took heat this week for votes that appeared to support Immigration Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has come under fire after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in the past month.
Read MoreAfter more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail system from City Hall, appointing a former CIA agent and correctional expert to assume sweeping authority over Rikers Island and the Department of Correction.
Read MoreA man who cops claimed was emotionally disturbed was shot by NYPD officers in Briarwood on Monday.
Read MoreThe World’s Borough was battered by an intense snowstorm along with much of the country over the weekend, leaving locals to dig themselves out of the mounds of powder and slush on Monday.
Read MoreMoney is already pouring into campaign coffers despite there being more than six months before most Queens voters head to the polls for the June primaries.
Read MoreJail watchdogs found that correctional officers and medical staff on Rikers Island abandoned their posts and failed to check in on suicidal detainees in the lead up to a number of deaths in the dangerous jail complex last year.
Read MoreA Queens couple is suing a child care center for allowing the abuse of their son to go on for years.
Read MoreA former elected official from Queens is running for office once again – but not in his longtime home.
Read MoreA&E Real Estate, a notorious landlord that recently entered a $2 million dollar settlement with the city and has several buildings in Queens, topped the public advocate’s list of the worst landlords in the city.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the former executive director of Queens Defenders, appeared prepared on Tuesday to plead guilty to federal fraud charges – until she suddenly wasn’t.
Read MoreLegal advocates say indigent legal service providers are in a “state of crisis,” yet a new report shows that tens of millions of dollars in already allocated state funds aren’t being used to support them.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump reminisced about his childhood in Queens during a nearly two-hour press briefing he gave on Tuesday.
Read MoreLeaders of the state court’s system on Tuesday called for a nearly $200 million budget increase to boost their spending up to $3.2 billion in the coming fiscal year.
Read MoreA man who was convicted of assault after he slashed someone in the neck will get a new trial after a panel of appellate judges said that a Queens judge improperly acted like a prosecutor, asking over 400 questions of witnesses during the 2019 trial.
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