MTA wants to fix Queens stations to address citywide bottleneck issues
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The MTA says it needs to make changes to two Queens stations in order to address major bottleneck issues centered in Brooklyn.
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Meeks wants Queens soldier included in Iran war death count
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A Queens congressmember blasted the Trump administration for removing Staff Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, who was from Queens, and three others from the Iran war’s official death toll.
Read MoreRaymond sworn in as new city sheriff
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There is a new sheriff in town after Edwin Raymond was sworn into the role on Monday.
Read MoreCommission searches for the Court of Appeals’ next judge
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The New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination is currently receiving and reviewing applications for anyone seeking a seat on New York’s Court of Appeals, as Senior Associate Judge Jenny Rivera approaches the end of her term on the top court.
Read MoreBronx Defenders staff join the picket line
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The labor fight at several public defender organizations continued over the weekend after a third group of unionized attorneys went on strike on Monday, bringing the total number of lawyers and legal staff on the picket line back up to 500.
Read MoreQueens pol wants Hochul to pass moratorium on battery storage sites
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A freshman Queens councilmember who inherited his predecessor’s beef with a company trying to build a lithium-ion battery storage site in the district wants the governor to pass a moratorium on their construction statewide.
Read MoreFormer Queens Defenders boss, ex-husband head to prison for fraud that ‘destroyed’ the nonprofit
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The former executive director of Queens Defenders and her ex-husband were sentenced to prison on Tuesday after siphoning off over $656,000 from the nonprofit, “effectively destroying" the organization that once represented tens of thousands of low-income clients facing criminal charges in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreLawsuit heads to trial as tenants allege years of neglect at Jamaica towers
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While most New York City apartments come with at least one headache, tenants living at The Crossing, a two-building affordable housing apartment complex on Archer Avenue and 148th Street, say that nearly everything that could go wrong in a building has gone wrong in theirs.
Read MoreSecond public defender union goes on strike
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While the threat of a mass public defender strike gridlocking New York courthouses appeared to be mostly averted, the city isn’t out of the woods yet after a public defender union went on strike on Friday and as another threatened to follow on Monday.
Read MoreQueens Defenders founder, ex-husband seek leniency after admitting to $500K fraud
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Queens Defenders’ former executive director and her ex-husband asked a judge for leniency ahead of their joint sentencing scheduled for next week after the pair admitted to defrauding and effectively bankrupting one of the borough’s largest public defense firms last year.
Read More‘A hero, plain and simple’: Queens family mourns fallen local soldier
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Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, the Queens soldier killed in the ongoing war with Iran, was remembered by her family and community as a local hero who always wanted to serve during a vigil outside her Ozone Park home on Thursday.
Read MoreResorts World breaks ground on second phase of casino project
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Resorts World broke ground on all of the non-casino aspects of their expansion plan on Wednesday.
Read MoreMayor, chief judge appoint members to revive Judicial Advisory Committee
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The mayor, chief judge and appellate division supervising judges appointed 18 members to the once nearly vacant Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens soldier killed in war with Iran
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A 28-year-old Queens native was among the three service members killed by an Iranian missile last week.
Read MoreQueens pols call on Dem leadership to push to abolish ICE
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More than a dozen Queens lawmakers signed on to a letter with around 100 other elected officials calling on federal Democrats to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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