Noisy LGA routes may actually lower life expectancy, Columbia researchers say
/The constant roar of passing planes started in 2012 when a flight path usually used a handful of times a year became a permanent route.
Read MoreBayside Torturer Gets 10 Years for Kidnapping Housekeeper
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A Bayside man was sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping his housekeeper and torturing her. His wife received five years probation for her participation.
Read MoreFDA Files Complaint Against Fishy Food Factory in LIC
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The FDA found some fishy food handling practices at a Long Island City processing plant and now the Department of Justice is shutting them down.
Read MoreNazi Camp Guard Deported From Jackson Heights
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The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his Jackson Heights home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, following years of efforts to remove him from the United States.
Read MoreCriminal Justice Reform Advocates Hail New DA Watchdog Law
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s eleventh hour decision to sign a law creating the nation’s first prosecutorial misconduct commission has received mixed responses from the Queens legal community and borough lawmakers.
Read MoreGov. Cuomo Signed Prosecutorial Misconduct Bill As Deadline Loomed
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bipartisan bill that will create a commission on prosecutorial misconduct on Monday night, just hours before the bill’s deadline. The bill had passed the state Assembly and Senate earlier this year but faced opposition from many district attorneys, including Queens DA Richard Brown.
Read MoreFreezing Out Immigrants: The Denial of Due Process in New York State Courts
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Frequent raids on immigrant communities and deaths in immigration detention centers have galvanized an “Abolish ICE” movement nationwide.
Judge Halts Deportation of Maspeth Taxi Driver, Father of 2
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A federal judge issued a stay of deportation for Edisson Barros, a Maspeth taxi driver and father of two, just hours before he was scheduled to be deported, according to Telemundo and attorneys from Legal Aid.
Read MoreGlendale Residents Raise Money To Fight Shelter For Poorest New Yorkers
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Glendale and Middle Village residents are raising money to block a potential homeless shelter for the city’s poorest residents — even before the city has issued an official proposal.
Read MoreOp-Ed: Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
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Examples of abuse and predation are prevalent in Queens. Every day scammers and schemers target senior citizens as well as younger people with impaired cognition. Individuals who fail to plan for their own potential impairments diminished capabilities also face future consequences.
CUNY Defenders Go Where Most Lawyers Rarely Venture
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The drive to Dannemora, the upstate hamlet that contains the Clinton Correctional Facility, can take seven hours. The ride to Attica can take eight. But those distances don’t stop students in the CUNY Law Criminal Defense Clinic from gassing up their cars and heading to the Canadian border to meet with the clients they represent, says clinic director Steven Zeidman.
Jig Is Up For Howard Beach Bonanno Family Loan Shark
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Ronald “Ronnie G” Giallanzo, a Howard Beach loanshark and Bonnano family captain, will have to pay a $1.25 million penalty and sell his Howard Beach mansion as part of a sentence handed down in Brooklyn’s federal court Wednesday.
Read MoreBrandeis Association Confronts Resurgent Anti-Semitism
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In recent weeks, racists have scrawled swastikas on boulders in College Point and a kiosk in Flushing. Two weeks ago, a white supremacist group unfurled a banner in Washington Heights and posted stickers throughout the city. Meanwhile, anti-semitism routinely seeps into or masquerades as debate about Israeli policy.
Addabbo and NYLAG Team Up To Counsel Rockaway Residents
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Next month, a mobile legal center will pull up to Rockaway Beach Boulevard and provide free legal assistance to peninsula residents. It is one of the latest Queens stops for the innovative van.
Queens House of Detention Set to Re-Open As Rikers Closes
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The vacant Queens House of Detention is one step closer to re-opening as a key component of the city’s plan to shutter Rikers Island.
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