Union organizer and Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez officially launched her campaign for Assembly District 37 on Wednesday, widening the field of candidates and setting up a potential battle amongst local progressives vying to unseat embattled Assemblymember Juan Ardila.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams doubled down on his opposition to the plan to close Rikers Island on Tuesday and called on the City Council to craft a new proposal to close the city’s jail complex where over two dozen people have died since the mayor took office last year.
Read MoreThe Astoria man accused of fatally stabbing a veteran medic with the fire department last fall remains unfit to stand trial, a Queens judge ruled on Monday.
Read MoreIf congestion pricing moves ahead as planned, the cost of goods and services will skyrocket. Working families have dealt with the impacts of the pandemic and inflation in recent years.
Read MoreThe Adams administration has yet to complete a single transfer of land on Rikers Island, a crucial part of the city’s plan to turn the jail complex into a renewable energy hub by 2027.
Read MoreThree Queens men had their convictions overturned this week. Altogether, they served well over half a century in prison for crimes they did not commit.
Read MoreThe potential migrant shelter at Aqueduct Racetrack at Resorts World Casino, which was floated by city officials as a possibility along with the Creedmoor site in mid-July, no longer seems like a viable option for shelter, city officials confirmed to the Eagle this week.
Read MoreA lifelong resident of the Rockaways in Queens, Tim Klein died last April fighting a blaze in Canarsie and was remembered on Wednesday as members of the community and the FDNY renamed Rockaway’s main commercial block, Beach 129th Street and Newport Avenue, in his honor.
Last month, Mayor Eric Adams said the scaffolding outside of Queens Supreme Court would be coming down. It did – only to be replaced a day later by a much larger shedding structure.
Read MoreFor the eighth time this year, a person being held in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction has died.
Read MoreCreedmoor shelter migrants share their experiences so far, from conditions to work authorization.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards announced on Monday that his office would be sending $3 million in funding to New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst.
Governor Kathy Hochul said on Monday that she and the Biden administration had struck a deal to house more than 2,000 asylum seekers at a historic former naval air station just north of the Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreQueens electeds are applauding an affordable homeownership project coming to Far Rockaway that was the result of a deal with the developer just before the City Council nearly voted to scrap the project altogether.
Read MoreA recently released study from the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance shows that those worries may have been mostly unfounded, with pretrial services mostly keeping up with the demand, despite some challenges.
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