Mayor Eric Adams upped his administration’s projected cost of the migrant crisis this week, describing a grim and costly future for the city while defending his administration’s efforts to house and provide services to the nearly 100,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in the city in the past year.
Read More“Let’s use our common sense. Whose assessment of conditions at Rikers Island is more credible: a court-mandated federal monitor team of expert watchdogs, or George Santos’ closest political allies who routinely spew bigoted MAGA garbage and conspiracy theories worthy of QAnon?”
Read MoreThe city is deploying drones o patrol the city’s beaches for sharks after a woman was sent to the hospital with an apparent shark bite on Monday.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards released his office’s 2023 demographic report for the borough’s community boards on Monday, detailing the strides he says his office has made to diversify the boards since he took office.
Read MoreA shark reportedly bit a woman off the shores of Queens’ Rockaway Beach on Monday night, leaving her in critical condition. The incident is believed to be the first shark attack off Queens’ waters in decades.
Read MoreQueens City Councilmember Robert Holden this week said Rikers Island had a “great atmosphere” after taking a tour of the jail complex where over two dozen people have died in the last two years.
Read MoreA month ago, the federal monitor charged with overseeing conditions on Rikers Island said the city should be held in contempt for failing to tamp down violent conditions within the notorious jail complex. Four weeks later and just days before a consequential court hearing in a case that could see New York City lose control of Rikers, the monitor says not much has changed.
Read MoreNearly 50 projects totalling $5 million have been selected by “the people” as part of the city’s first-ever citywide participatory budgeting program dubbed “The People’s Money.”
Read MoreA Queens judge last week tossed a case in which a candidate who ran for the Republican nomination in Queens’ 20th City Council District accused the race’s victor of election fraud – and called for a new election to be held altogether.
Read MoreLast 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.
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