Queens City Councilmember Vicki Paladino may be facing sanctions after she went on an online screed, vowing to withhold funding from schools that host drag queen events last week.
Read MoreA group of New York law professors had their right to free speech violated last year when the city’s top attorney attempted to prevent them from publicly publishing a number of misconduct claims against nearly two dozen current and former Queens prosecutors, a judge ruled this week.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams and his Department of Corrections commissioner, Louis Molina, will remain in control of Rikers Island for at least several months longer, a federal judge ruled this week.
Read More“Jewish and Israeli students deserve the same protections against hate and intolerance as any other community at CUNY, and it should not be up to the City Council to ensure this happens.”
Read MoreFollowing one of the longest trials in Queens Criminal Court this year, a jury convicted Jagger Freeman of murder in the death of an NYPD detective who was shot by his fellow officers during a robbery gone wrong in 2019.
Read MoreTwo men were indicted on attempted murder charges for allegedly perpetrating the attacks against an elderly Asian American woman and two good Samaritans who run a nearby pizza shop in Elmhurst and who intervened in the attack.
Read MoreThe city submitted its action plan to turn around the dysfunction on Rikers Island last week. Advocates say it’s not enough.
Read MoreAn appellate court struck down the state’s Assembly maps on Friday. The court ruled that the maps will be used this election cycle but redrawn before the 2024 election cycle.
Read MoreThe mayor and speaker of the City Council announced an early end to the city’s budgeting season on Friday. The City Council won big on a number of criminal justice and public safety budget items.
Read MoreAfter recently securing the funding needed for the largest component of the rebuild John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority will begin construction on Terminal One this summer.
Read MoreGeorge Bell, who was one of three Queens men to be wrongfully convicted of a 1996 double murder, is suing the city and eight NYPD officers for $50 million.
Read MoreA water main break near the Queensbridge Houses left hundreds of NYCHA residents without water most of the day Tuesday.
Read MoreAfter eight years, Prakash Churaman walked out of the Queens Criminal Courthouse a free man on Monday. He first walked in as a teenage boy facing murder charges.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams on Thursday appointed the city’s first ever “gun violence czar,” to oversee the city’s response to recent high profile gun crime.
Read MoreThe first of many votes to come on the massive Innovation QNS project slated for Astoria did not go developers’ way Wednesday.
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