Zohran Mamdani’s unprecedented rise from Western Queens assemblymember to national political figure reached a new peak Tuesday night, when he was elected mayor of New York City in an election that drew a historic number of voters.
Read MoreZohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo may both have unprecedented ties to the World’s Borough, but there was no love lost between their respective supporters in Queens as voters cast their ballots in the mayoral race in massive numbers on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe mayor is no longer running for reelection.
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 MoreA Queens City Council candidate has a number of images on their website that appear to be generated by AI. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last. What should voters know about the rise of AI in politics?
Read MoreThe candidates running to represent District 21 in the City Council recently told the Eagle what they thought about the bustling but troubled strip on Roosevelt Avenue.
Read MoreThe Van Wyck Expressway, which runs north-south through parts of Queens, is one of the borough’s most infamous and frustrating highways – it's also the dividing line in one of its most contentious City Council races.
Read MoreThere’s no single clear frontrunner in the race to represent one of the city’s most diverse Council districts – there’s three.
Read MoreA combative campaign season is heating up in one of Queens’ only City Council districts with an open seat.
Read MoreQueens Supreme Court on Sutphin Boulevard played host to a precession of political and legal formalities as rulings from the Board of Elections made the day prior on the fate of several Queens candidates were confirmed before a judge Tuesday.
Read MoreA Senate committee played their cards close to their chest this week when they narrowly voted to advance a bill that would allow New York Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on Citi Field’s parking lot.
Read MoreFar from their respective district’s boundaries, several candidates hoping to be elected in Queens had their campaigns brought to an early end by the Board of Elections on Monday.
Read MoreIn one Queens councilmember’s office, the term “office politics” has taken on a whole new meaning.
Read MoreLawyers for the Queens County Democratic Party told a judge this week that ballot petition signatures purportedly collected from voters by a canvasser for a Queens judicial candidate – and for several others running for office – were forged.
Read MoreThe mayor’s office and the City Council remained in a standoff over the closure of Rikers Island on Wednesday, unable to agree on how the city should chart a new path toward shutting the deadly jail complex.
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