Top elected officials from across the city and state gathered in City Hall on Monday to announce that they were pouring nearly half a billion dollars into additional gun violence prevention measures.
Read MoreAs Queens and the city deal with the effects of an intense heatwave, State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie toured Bayswater Point State Park on Friday alongside local Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato to discuss the future of the park and the effects of climate change on it and other areas in New York City.
A Queens judge this week rejected the city’s request to send the sheriff to break down the doors of two Flushing homes allegedly being rented as illegal Airbnbs.
Read MoreThe area near Creedmoor Psychiatric Center became the site of two rallies on Thursday, as locals and elected officials protested the city’s plan to bring a massive tent shelter for asylum seekers to the long-abandoned campus.
Read MoreLisa Zornberg, the former chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, was named City Hall’s next chief counsel by the mayor on Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens school districts will have more work to do than any other New York county when it comes to hiring teachers and finding room for students thanks to new class size laws, a new report from the city’s budget office claims.
Read MoreDespite pushback from a number of Eastern Queens officials, the city says it is moving forward with a plan to bring a 1,000-bed shelter for adult male asylum seekers to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in the coming months.
Read MoreIn an expected move, the GOP and the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission have appealed an appellate court’s recent decision ordering New York’s congressional district lines to be redrawn. The case will now be heard by the state’s highest court, the second time the court has heard a case on the state’s redistricting lines.
Read MoreA Queens lawmaker is calling on the leader of the New York State Police to immediately implement guidelines that protect officers against discrimination based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Read MoreDany Chen, the losing candidate in Queens’ only recent Republican primary, has filed a lawsuit against the winner of the race, Yu-Ching James Pai, and the Board of Elections alleging widespread voter fraud in the June election.
Read MoreNot all of the 64,000 Queens voters who cast a ballot in the recent Democratic primary race for Queens district attorney bubbled in a vote for incumbent DA Melinda Katz or challengers George Grasso or Devian Daniels. Instead, a small portion of the Queens electorate chose to write-in a candidate for the borough’s top prosecutor.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul called for a special election to fill the vacant seat on Monday, setting election day for Sept. 12. The election day officially launches the race to fill Daniel Rosenthal’s seat as he moves on to a governmental relations job with the UJA-Federation, a Jewish non-profit.
After over a dozen years, the scaffolding that wraps around the front of the Queens County Supreme Court building in Downtown Jamaica will soon come down. But the crumbling facade that necessitated the installation of the wooden shedding 14 years ago is still not expected to be fixed anytime soon.
Read MoreFor the fourth time in as many weeks and for the seventh time this year, a man in the custody of the city’s Department of Correction has died.
Read MoreU.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday he is introducing a resolution to honor a Queens legend. Schumer, a Brooklyn native, announced this week that he intends to introduce a resolution to dub Aug. 3 “Tony Bennett Day,” in honor of the Queens-born singer who died last week.
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