Queens GOP picks judge nominations
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Scott Dunn and Gary Muraca were both selected on Saturday night to run with the GOP’s endorsement to fill the vacancies on the bench in the World’s Borough.
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Two more Dems file to run for Ardila’s seat
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Two progressive Democrats, Hailie Kim and Claire Valdez, have filed campaigns for embattled Assemblymember Juan Ardila’s Western Queens district, joining Émilia Decaudin progressive who has already launched their campaign, building a potentially competitive field for next year’s primary.
Read MoreOpinion: The false choice in Corona Plaza
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“There is a false choice hanging over Corona Plaza. An escalating discourse around street vending has created the impression that we have to choose between the right people have to earn an honest living and the right to clean, safe public space. But both should – and can – be true.”
Read MoreRikers receivership proceedings begin
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The city came closer than it has ever been to having its control over Rikers Island stripped away on Thursday after a federal judge said that she’d consider installing a federal receiver in the coming months.
Read MoreQueens Dems to pick Supreme Court candidates
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The party’s delegates are largely expected to select Judges Cassandra Johnson, Karen Lin, Peter Kelly, Scott Dunn and Jessica Earle-Gargan as the candidates who will run with the party’s endorsement in November
Read MoreBoard of Correction sues DOC over revoked video access
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The Board of Correction, the citizen watchdog board charged with providing oversight to the Department of Correction, sued the agency in an effort to regain unfettered access to video from within Rikers Island after DOC brass revoked the board’s ability to view it remotely earlier this year.
Read MoreProtestors clash over upcoming Creedmoor migrant shelter
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A chaotic scene in Eastern Queens broke out after a small group of Queens residents urging a more welcoming attitude toward asylum seekers clashed with a much larger group of people protesting an upcoming 1,000-bed tent shelter for migrants at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Campus.
Read MoreAdams says migrant crisis could cost city $12 billion
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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 MoreOpinion: Don’t be fooled, Rikers is a hellhole
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“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 MoreDrones to patrol for sharks on Queens beaches
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The 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 BP’s report shows ‘strides’ in diversifying community boards
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Queens 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 MoreWoman allegedly bit by shark off Rockaway Beach
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A 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 lawmakers call Rikers 'cheerful' days before judge to consider federal takeover
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Queens 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 More‘Haphazard, tepid, and insubstantial’ : Ahead of crucial court appearance, monitor says little has changed on Rikers Island
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A 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 MoreQueens leads the way in first-ever citywide “People’s Money” vote
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Nearly 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.”
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