Two miserable Mets fans find love. Mr. Met protests fossil fuel investments. A grandfather defends his baby grandson from being blamed for the Mets’ recent failures. It was all at the Mets’ home opener at Citi Field.
Read More“We will have blood on our hands if we allow these [bail law] changes to be implemented in our New York State budget,” Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani said, following a visit to Rikers Island this week.
Read More“Governor Kathy Hochul claims to care about the safety of our communities, but her lip service is going to cost people their lives. The governor is yet again holding the state budget hostage in order to push through harmful changes to New York’s bail laws.”
Read MoreWant to open a pot shop in Queens? Well, you’ll have to go through the community board first.
Read MoreThe New York State and New York City Bar Associations released their ratings of chief judge candidates this week. All but one received a “well qualified” rating. That one candidate? Anthony Cannataro, the only person on the list who has actual experience serving as chief judge.
Read MoreAs former president – and Queens man – Donald Trump was being arraigned in Manhattan on Tuesday, Queens residents went about their daily lives, giving little thought to the man who once called the borough his home.
Read MoreIn the first major report on Rikers Island since last fall, the federal team monitoring the troubled jail complex says that while conditions remain dire, improvements have very slowly begun to take root.
Read MoreLeadership of the New York City Council and its budget negotiating team proposed boosting funding for legal services providers by $195 million on Monday.
Read MoreOne of the women who recently accused Queens State Assemblyman Juan Ardila of sexual assault during a 2015 party is participating in a sex crimes probe into the incident.
Read MoreOpposition has begun to grow over a new bill recently brokered between the governor and legislature that would fast-track Court of Appeals judicial nominations if passed into law.
Read MoreQueens’ first-ever legal weed shop opened in Jamaica this week.
Read MoreThe first Queens man to be impeached – and then impeached again – was indicted on state charges on Thursday.
Read MoreMax Negrin, one of the youngest surviving U.S. veterans of World War II, passed away peacefully in hospice care on Feb. 12, 2023. He was 95. Max was laid to rest on February 17 in a section of the United Brotherhood Good Hope Society of Janina in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island.
Read More“Only once the FAR cap is lifted can we fully realize our goal of live-work-play communities outside of Manhattan, like here in Downtown Jamaica.”
Read MoreA group of 100 law professors wrote an open letter to Governor Kathy Hochul this week opposing her proposals to the state’s bail laws, which have already reportedly soured budget negotiations in Albany.
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