The city’s largest public defender group is lobbying state and city officials to up their funding as the state’s budget season approaches its final weeks and the city’s negotiations begin to kick off.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul has joined local government officials in calling for Queens Assemblymember Juan Ardila to resign following reports of sexual assault allegations made earlier this week.
Read MoreThe Long Island Railroad says that service changes are coming to Queens stations in Kew Gardens and Forest Hills after four electeds complained that recent train schedule changes have made their constituents’ commutes tougher.
Read More“The inconsistent statements from the administration over the past few days have unacceptably created questions where there should be no questions,” the speaker said. “Rikers must close by 2027 and we cannot allow it to continue undermining public safety issues across our city.”
Read MoreA controversial plan to intercept and digitize detainee mail on Rikers Island has again been kept in limbo after the city’s jail oversight body declined to vote on the plan, months after it was first introduced.
Read MoreA growing number of elected officials are calling on freshman Democratic Assemblymember Juan Ardila to resign after two women accused him of sexual assault during a 2015 party shortly after he graduated from college.
Read MoreWill the city be able to close Rikers Island by 2027? Likely not, if a newly proposed contract to build the first of the city’s upcoming four borough-based jails is approved as is.
Read MoreA tambourine-wielding retired NYPD officer from Queens was found guilty last week of her actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection and breach of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Read MoreNearly a year after it began, the review of the proposed LaGuardia Airport AirTrain project has been completed – and there will likely be no AirTrain to Queens’ northern airport.
Read MoreA Queens city councilmember was booted from her assignment on the Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities, and Addiction as retribution for anti-LGBTQ+ remarks she made last year.
Read MoreQueens Assemblymember Juan Ardila has been accused by two women of sexual assault during a 2015 party shortly after he had graduated college.
Read More“For anyone who has lived in Queens, gone to a Mets game or flown into LaGuardia Airport knows, the 50 acres around Citi Field have been nothing but parking lots and wasted opportunity.”
Read More“Crime is up, and yet some in our city want to further handcuff our police – the one group in the city that’s been proven to keep us safe,” City Councilmember Joann Ariola writes in this op-ed.
Read MoreHiram Monserrate, the disgraced former Queens lawmaker, has built a successful judge-electing machine in Queens. He’s trying to do it again – and get back into the City Council.
Read MoreActing Chief Judge Anthony Cannataro delivered his State of the Judiciary address this week. It’s unlikely he was expecting to give the speech only a few months ago – it would have been given by Hector LaSalle, had he not been recently rejected by the State Senate. On Tuesday, LaSalle received a long standing ovation and words of praise from Cannataro.
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