Queens man arrested for attacking rabbi on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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A man was arrested for an alleged antisemitic attack on a Queens rabbi in Forest Hills on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Mayor blames Eric Adams for city’s ‘serious fiscal crisis’
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis” that rivals the Great Recession, blaming his predecessor for four years of shoddy budgeting practices that has left the city with a bleak financial outlook.
Read MoreMamdani taps Department of Probation veteran to lead agency
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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 MoreQueens reps catch criticism for previous ICE votes
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Two 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 MoreFederal judge appoints former Vermont DOC boss to take over Rikers Island
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After 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 MoreMan shot by police in Queens
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A man who cops claimed was emotionally disturbed was shot by NYPD officers in Briarwood on Monday.
Read MoreQueens digs itself out from harsh winter storm
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The 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 MoreWhose got the money?: State candidates pull in first batch of money for 2026
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Money 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 MoreBoard of Correction details lapses before Rikers deaths
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Jail 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 MoreQueens couple sues upstate residential center for abusing autistic son
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A Queens couple is suing a child care center for allowing the abuse of their son to go on for years.
Read MoreFormer Queens pol runs for Long Island Senate seat
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A former elected official from Queens is running for office once again – but not in his longtime home.
Read MoreQueens building owners top worst landlords list
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A&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 MoreFormer Queens Defenders head stops short of guilty plea in federal court
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Lori 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 MoreCity’s Assigned Counsel Program in ‘state of crisis,’ new report claims
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Legal 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 MoreTrump reflects on childhood in Queens during rambling press briefing
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President Donald Trump reminisced about his childhood in Queens during a nearly two-hour press briefing he gave on Tuesday.
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