City asks New Yorkers what they want to see in DT Jamaica redevelopment
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The city is looking for feedback from New Yorkers about how it should proceed with its plan to redevelop Downtown Jamaica.
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Borough president celebrates funding for parks and libraries in FY23
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With Fiscal Year 2024 now underway, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is celebrating funding allocated to Queens parks and libraries by his office in the previous year.
Read MoreCouncil grills Adams administration on air quality response
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires fell over the city, which gave the majority of the five boroughs, including Queens, a hazy, orange tint, and brought the worst air quality the city has seen since the metric began being recorded. To members of the New York City Council, just as confounding as the color of the skies was the Adams administration’s response to the emergency. And so, on Wednesday, city councilmembers grilled agency heads on the city’s response to the unprecedented event.
Read MoreScaffolding at Queens Supreme Court has cost city nearly half a million dollars
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Scaffolding is a daily fixture in the lives of most New Yorkers – but nowhere is that more true than at the Queens Supreme Courthouse in Downtown Jamaica.
Read MoreQueens pols’ hate crime bill signed by gov
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Governor Kathy Hochul took steps to protect New Yorkers against hate crimes this week, allocating $51 million of state funds into safety and security, and also signed a bill from a number of Queens electeds into law.
Read MoreTemporarily laid off judges to get back pay under new law
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As a result of a recently passed bill signed into law by the governor, over a dozen senior judges throughout New York State will soon be repaid for a multi-month period in 2022 in which they were temporarily laid off.
Read MoreTrans district leader launches bid to unseat Ardila
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Émilia Decaudin, a 24-year-old democratic socialist who became one of the state’s first openly transgender district leaders in 2020, announced this week that she’s mounting a bid to unseat Juan Ardila in the Assembly.
Read MoreQueens borough president clears the air on controversial ‘pizza bill’
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Pizza recently became a hotter topic than usual in New York after some believed that a new city edict aimed to help air quality would create a crackdown on the city staple, unfairly punishing pizza slingers and lovers alike. Now, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, who authored the bill as a councilmember in 2015, is looking to clear the air.
Read MoreGunman on scooter terrorizes Queens and Brooklyn
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Thomas Abreu, a 25-year-old from Brooklyn, shot four people – one in Brooklyn and three in Queens – on Saturday, killing 87-year-old Hamod Ali Saeidi, who was out on a walk on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill.
Read MoreRikers monitor says city should be held in contempt
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The Department of Correction should be held in contempt of court for its inability to keep the people who are held and who work at Rikers Island safe, the court-appointed federal monitor said in a damning report released Monday.
Read MoreDetainee diagnosed with cancer dies in DOC custody
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Ricky Howell, 60, died in Bellevue Hospital of a terminal illness on Thursday, July 6, only a couple of days after 40-year-old man became the fourth Rikers detainee to die this year.
Read MoreSix indicted for illegally donating to Mayor Adams’ campaign
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Six supporters of Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign mayor for may were indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday for a campaign finance scheme concocted to curry favor with the future City Hall occupant. Neither Adams nor his campaign are implicated in the indictment.
Creedmoor development behind schedule
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The state’s effort to develop the site of the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus is now behind schedule.
Read MoreVermin, dirt and mold: New report shows continued deterioration on Rikers
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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 MoreOne-on-one with Department of Probation head Juanita Holmes
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The 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.
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