Doctors strike at Elmhurst Hospital
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Resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital are on strike. It’s the first time doctors in the city have gone on strike in over three decades.
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Grasso says he’ll up victims’ services within Queens DA’s office if elected
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George Grasso, one of several Democrats challenging incumbent Melinda Katz in the upcoming primary election for Queens district attorney, said that if elected, he’d reform the way the top prosecutor’s office interacts with victims of crimes.
Read MoreCiti Field casino not coming any time soon, lawmaker says at town hall
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New York Mets owner Steve Cohen may be all in on his desire to bring a casino to Western Queens – but the house is going to make him wait on his pay out.
Read MoreQueens South Asian community groups keep redistricting fight going
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The APA Voice Redistricting Task Force filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the New York Independent Redistricting Commission in order to figure out why a draft version of their district that received widespread community support was scrapped at the final moments of a tumultuous redistricting process.
Read MoreFormer top Queens judge officially named chief administrative judge
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Joseph Zayas, who spent two decades of his legal career in Queens, was officially named chief administrative judge of New York’s court system on Thursday.
Read MoreAdams doesn’t rule out housing migrants on Rikers Island
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Mayor Eric Adams said that he would not take Rikers Island off the table as a potential place to house newly arrived migrants.
Read MoreLocal pol’s Israel bill creates controversy in Queens
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Astoria Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently introduced "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” a bill that would stop tax-exempt registered nonprofits in New York from helping to fund the State of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations. That legislation is now garnering condemnation from dozens of his legislative colleagues who have called it antisemetic.
Read MoreDetainee dies, marking second Rikers death of the year
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A 52-year-old Rikers Island detainee died in a Queens hospital on Tuesday, several days after he was severely injured inside the jail.
Read MoreDOC to slash outside programming for detainees
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The Department of Correction has told half a dozen organizations that provide services and programs to jailed New Yorkers that they will no longer be contracted to work with the agency come July.
Read MoreElmhurst Hospital residents poised to strike if deal is not reached
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Residents and interns at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens are scheduled to strike on Monday if a deal is not reached before then
Read MoreJail oversight board bungles monthly meeting – again
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The Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.
Read More‘Their loss is not forgotten’: Officials pitch bill to fund futures for kids who lost parents to COVID
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As the federal government’s emergency COVID-19 declaration came to end on Thursday, a group of families, doctors and lawmakers gathered in the Queens neighborhood that was once the epicenter of the pandemic and called on New Yorkers not to forget them, or the loved ones they lost.
Read MoreQueens doctors strike averted following midnight deal
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Resident doctors at Flushing and Jamaica Hospitals reached an eleventh hour deal with the hospital system, MediSys, late Sunday night, narrowly avoiding a strike that would have begun just seven hours later.
Read MoreFederal Queens pols urge Biden to expedite migrant work authorization
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With fears that the asylum seeker crisis in New York City may worsen with the ending of Title 42, a majority of the city’s congressional representatives signed a joint letter addressed to President Joe Biden looking for his help in allowing the migrants to work.
Read MoreKatz expands business program to Astoria
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Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz is expanding her business improvement program to Astoria.
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