Queens gears up for City Council redistricting
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With the state’s redistricting process nearly in the rear view mirror, New York City is turning toward its next redistricting fight – City Council districts.
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MoMI explores deep fakes, technology and misinformation
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The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a live event this week to discuss the details of fabricated videos and their consequences.
Read MoreQueens launches supply drives for Ukraine
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As the invasion of Ukraine continues, residents from the World’s Borough are stepping up to support resistors and refugees in need with a series of donation drives.
Read MoreQueens needs the money: QBP hears budget needs throughout borough
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Queens community boards, colleges, hospitals and a number of nonprofits and institutions came before the Queens borough president’s office to request a slice of the borough’s budget.
Read MoreBomb 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.
