Bomb threat prompts evacuation at York College
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York College’s five buildings were evacuated Monday after an anonymous bomb threat was made on the school. No bomb has been found.
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With AirTrain on pause, Port Authority shares over a dozen LGA alternative transit plans
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New subway lines, dedicated bus lanes, AirTrains or pods – the Port Authority recently shared over a dozen potential transit options that could end up replacing former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport.
Read MoreHoward Beach mobster sentenced to 10 years for arson
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A Howard Beach man with alleged ties to the Gambino crime family was sentenced to a decade in prison.
Read MoreParole reform law yet to be executed, attys say
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Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Less is More Act into law in September – calling the bill “one step” toward making New York’s criminal justice system more fair — as Rikers Island was in the midst of a crisis.
Read MoreDA seizes over two dozen ghost guns
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Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday the seizure of dozens of ghost guns, ammunition and tactical gear after several NYPD raids earlier this week.
Read MoreTransit union endorses Hochul
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Amalgamated Transit Union members from across the state came to Jamaica by the busload to announce their support for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s campaign.
Read MoreAsian American judicial org. works to diversify bench
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Though it’s been in existence for nearly a decade, the Asian American Judges Association of New York is just beginning to establish itself in New York’s legal world, the association’s new president says.
Read MoreQueens BP hosts redistricting webinar
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“Redistricting impacts us all, whether we know it or not.”
Read MoreOpinion: Keep on the path to borough-based jails
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“Operating a jail system that isolates, deprives, and tortures people corrupts the legal system as whole, and it corrupts the people who are held there. It also corrupts the society that condones it.”
Read MoreQueens Housing Court in need of HPD attys, judge says
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Queens Housing Court needs help only the Department of Housing Preservation and Development can provide — lawyers to represent the agency during proceedings.
Advocates call on Hochul to speed up electric school bus timeline
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In the heart of what has been dubbed “Asthma Alley,” members of the ElectrifyNY coalition and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards called on Hochul to accelerate New York’s timeline for procuring an all-electric fleet.
Read MoreCOVID-19 memorial exhibit to open in Elmhurst
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A new exhibit commemorating the lives lost to COVID-19 is open at the Elmhurst Queens Public Library branch.
Read MoreCOVID mandates on the way out, city and state leaders say
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With COVID-19 rates steadily decreasing in New York, city and state leaders are taking the opportunity to reevaluate safety measures that have been in place for months.
City Council hears testimony from detainees in New York ICE facilities
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A hunger strike, racist and retaliatory treatment from guards and medical neglect – those were the conditions outlined by current and former detainees in New York State prisons held on immigration charges.
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