Several Queens and Brooklyn elected officials are calling on the MTA to consider running the G train along its former route, deeper into Queens, now that the transit authority has announced plans to do work on the line that will likely cause major service disruptions.
Read MoreLeadership of the City Council on Thursday announced which councilmembers will be serving on which committees and which lawmakers will be in charge of them.
Read MoreThe New York City Council is pushing back on Mayor Eric Adams’ recent budget cuts to libraries, education, police and other agencies, arguing that their own projections show that new revenue can stave off the cuts.
Read MoreSeveral years after being at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elmhurst Hospital this week was on the receiving end of a $17.5 million investment from several members of the City Council.
Read MoreIn just under a month, Queens voters will head to the polls to cast votes in their local City Council elections.
Read MoreTorrential rainfall and heavy flooding walloped the Big Apple for hours on Friday, causing a number of issues for Queens residents and others in the five boroughs. In what is becoming a more and more familiar sight for New Yorkers, flood waters invaded everything from city streets, to low lying coastal areas, to subways stations, to the city’s airports.
Read MoreA 14-year-old boy was killed over the weekend while swimming off of Rockaway Beach, the first drowning fatality off of the Queens’ shores this summer, which also comes after a dangerous summer season in 2022.
Read MoreAhead of the primary, which falls on Tuesday, June 27, the Queens Daily Eagle sent a five-question survey to every candidate running for one of the borough’s 15 City Council seats.
Read MoreA new report conducted by Make the Road New York found that newly arrived migrants overwhelmingly are having difficulty covering the legal fees required to apply for asylum and get work authorization.
Read MoreQueens is getting the money this year through participatory budgeting, with several projects being selected last week in nine City Council districts, an increase from only three last year.
Read MoreA large cohort of Uber and Lyft drivers held a strike outside LaGuardia Airport on Sunday where no pickups were made as the drivers protested for higher wages amid inflation.
Read MoreTake a look at who has started raising money in the upcoming Queens City Council races.
Read MoreA local labor union protested a contract the Parks Department gave to a company that recently pleaded guilty to insurance fraud. But the Parks Department said the union had no standing and continued awarding the company with multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded contracts. Now, the union and group of lawmakers say the agency needs to change its public bidding process.
Read MoreOfficials continue the search for a new home for La Jornada, a major food pantry in Western Queens that was evicted from its headquarters in a Flushing NYCHA complex at the end of last month.
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