LIRR train derails in Jamaica, injuring more than a dozen
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A Long Island Railroad train headed east through Queens derailed on Thursday morning, leaving 13 passengers injured.
Public defenders call for better pay, case caps and transparent negotiations in Queens
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Attorneys working for the Legal Aid Society picketed their employer this week as contract negotiations between their union and the city’s largest public defense firm continue.
Read MoreQueens officials defend food vendors in Corona Plaza
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A Queens locale known for its vibrancy and culture was the site of a late night city crackdown on illegal vendors last week, done with little notice to the vendors or local elected officials, who held a rally on Wednesday protesting what they said was heavy-handed enforcement from the city.
Read MoreCity reaches new phase of migrant crisis
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Top City Hall officials said Wednesday that the migrant crisis, and the city’s response to it, has reached a new and dire chapter.
Read MoreVote on Queens affordable housing plan delayed
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A scheduled vote on a proposal to build an affordable housing development in the Edgemere section of the Rockaway peninsula was delayed by the City Council on Tuesday after the plan received pushback from the local councilmember.
Read MoreDems, GOP select candidates to run in Eastern Queens Assembly race
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Both the Queens County Democratic and Republican parties have picked their respective nominees for the upcoming special election to succeed Daniel Rosenthal in representing the 27th State Assembly District in Eastern Queens.
Read MoreState court leaders scrap court simplification plan
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Former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s sweeping but controversial plan to restructure, or “simplify,” the state’s court system is no more, the Eagle has learned.
Read MoreLocal pols demand President Biden aid city during migrant crisis
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Less than a week after nearly 60 New York City elected officials penned a letter to President Joe Biden calling for increased federal support in dealing with the migrant crisis, several of them rallied outside City Hall on Monday calling for Biden’s backing.
Read MoreCity to put half a billion dollars toward gun violence prevention
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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 MoreTop state lawmaker tours Bayswater amid blistering heat wave
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As 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.
The city wants to break down doors of illegal Airbnbs – Queens judge says, ‘no’
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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 MoreCompeting protests agree – ‘No migrant shelter at Creedmoor’
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The 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 MoreAdams names new top City Hall attorney
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Lisa 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 faces big hurdles under new class size law, city says
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Queens 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 MoreCity to build migrant shelter at Creedmoor
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Despite 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.
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