During an hour-long presentation, the MTA gave the public new details and updates on the planned Interborough Express, the potentially transformative railway project to connect Brooklyn and Queens.
Read MoreThe migrant tent shelter at Creedmoor opened its doors to migrants on Tuesday, one day ahead of schedule, welcoming in the first 100 or so asylum seekers amid local pushback on the facility.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards announced his third “Borough Hall on Your Block”, which will take the initiative to events in Northwest Queens next week.
Read MoreFour murals, each depicting the colors and diversity of Queens and painted by local high school students, were unveiled on Tuesday at Queens Family Court in Jamaica.
Read MoreA new city law in response to the scourge of illegal smoke shops went into effect this summer, and on Monday, the Queens councilmember who sponsored it and other officials discussed how the new law will work.
Read MoreJudges Cassandra Johnson, Karen Lin, Peter Kelly, Scott Dunn and Jessica Earle-Gargan will each run on the Democratic Party’s line for one of the five vacancies on the bench in the World’s Borough after being selected by the party at their annual judicial convention on Thursday evening.
Read MoreScott 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.
Read MoreTwo 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 More“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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 MoreA 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 MoreMayor 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?”
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