Last week, good government group Citizens Union joined the a number of elected officials, advocates and others in calling for federal Judge Laura Swain to put the city’s notorious jail complex into a federal receivership, or a judicial order that could see the power to manage Rikers handed over to a court-appointed authority.
Read MoreThe New York City Bar Association released a report last week assessing the court’s efforts in its Equal Justice Initiatives, detailing recommendations for the state courts to continue working to eliminate racial bias.
Read MoreA controversial Queens affordable housing development was approved by the City Council on Thursday after being changed at the last minute from offering 100 percent affordable rental units to 100 percent home ownership units, addressing concerns raised by the local councilmember.
Read MoreA Long Island Railroad train headed east through Queens derailed on Thursday morning, leaving 13 passengers injured.
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 MoreA 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 MoreTop City Hall officials said Wednesday that the migrant crisis, and the city’s response to it, has reached a new and dire chapter.
Read MoreA 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 MoreBoth 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 MoreFormer 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 MoreLess 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 MoreTop 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.
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