A new report from a court-appointed monitor found that conditions inside New York City’s jails were generally in a state of deterioration during the first four months of the year.
Read MoreThe Eagle recently sat down with Department of Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes to discuss the workings of the department, what her goals for the agency are, how she views public safety in New York, the impending closure of Rikers Island, her relationship with the former police commissioner and more.
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 MoreFormer State Senator and City Councilmember Tony Avella appears to have won the District 19 Democratic primary, defeating former Queens assistant district attorney and first-time candidate Christopher Bae by a margin of just 123 votes.
NYnaturalizations.com, gives public access to around 400,000 naturalization records signed in the courts of Queens and the Bronx between 1794 and 1952. he database is the culmination of a plan that was hatched four and a half years ago and unveiled Thursday at the Queens Public Library on Merrick Boulevard.
Read MoreThe theory goes that with low voter turnout comes few surprises for the incumbents – and that held true during Tuesday’s primary election in Queens.
Read MoreIt was raining and pouring, and most of Queens’ polling sites during Tuesday’s primary election were snoring.
Read MoreA 19-year-old girl was killed on Saturday after a driver hit her while she was waiting for the bus in Rockaway Beach.
Read MoreJust days before the Democratic primary election, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz accused one of her opponents, Devian Daniels, of failing to properly register her campaign state.
Read MoreLearn more about Sandra Perez, one of two candidates running for the vacancy on the countywide Civil Court bench.
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 MoreThe Queens Supreme Court, Criminal Term courthouse is the most technologically advanced courthouse in the entire state, top court officials announced this week.
Read MoreWith a little more than a week before the Department of Correction plans to sever its contracts with nearly half a dozen nonprofits that provide services to detainees on Rikers Island, elected officials, formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and top officials with the affected organizations called on the city to find new ways to save $17 million dollars.
Read MoreWith the deadline for the city’s budget fast approaching, over half of the City Council is calling on the mayor to up funding for public defenders who contract with the city and provide free legal services to New Yorkers.
Read MoreIn a rare rejection of an entire slate of candidates, all three judicial hopefuls in the race for Civil Court judge in Queens’ 6th Municipal District were rated “not approved” by the New York City Bar Association this week.
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