Queens pols give $6 mil to Eastern Queens Greenway
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Two Queens electeds are hoping to help complete the Eastern Queens Greenway and connect the borough’s parks with a $6 million allocation announced this week.
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Council to introduce Rikers transparency bills
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After having been accused by judges, advocates, lawmakers, oversight agencies, attorneys and others of failing to be transparent about what happens on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction may be legally required to open its records, video recordings and more to an oversight board should two bills set to be introduced in the City Council on Thursday pass into law.
Read MoreOversight board urges city to ‘recommit’ to Rikers closure plan
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The watchdog group charged with keeping tabs on New York City’s jails says that the city needs to “recommit” to its plan to shutter Rikers Island, which has seen its average daily population grow by nearly 1,000 detainees in the past two years.
Read MoreQueens BP relaunches Queens tech competition
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced Tuesday that his office is bringing back the Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge for a second year after what he called a successful inaugural season.
Read MoreAdams to depart for South America
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Mayor Eric Adams and several top officials in his administration will leave New York on Wednesday for several Latin American countries, where he won’t be speaking about the merits of New York City, but rather trying to convince potential migrants that if they come to the Big Apple, they might not get what they are looking for.
Read MoreDOC agrees to restore Rikers video access to oversight body
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The watchdog board charged with keeping tabs on the New York City Department of Correction will again have the ability to view surveillance footage from inside the city’s jails remotely after the agency settled a lawsuit late last week.
Read MoreState commission begins to consider raises for judges
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Judges in New York State soon could see their first pay increase in eight years, or see their salary remain at the same level it’s been at since 2015 depending on the upcoming work of the commission tasked with determining the salaries for lawmakers, the governor, state agency heads and judges in the Empire State.
Read MoreAdvocates call on gov to sign Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act
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Monday was International Wrongful Conviction Day, and advocates and officials recognized the day of awareness at City Hall Park, continuing their call for Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act into law.
Read MoreLawsuit against Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter moved to federal court
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A lawsuit filed by a group of mostly Republican lawmakers and community leaders in opposition to a planned migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn will not be heard by a state judge but instead a federal one.
Read MoreFloods engulf Queens
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Torrential rainfall and heavy flooding walloped the Big Apple for hours on Friday, causing a number of issues for Queens residents and others in the five boroughs. In what is becoming a more and more familiar sight for New Yorkers, flood waters invaded everything from city streets, to low lying coastal areas, to subways stations, to the city’s airports.
Read MoreFar more needed to fully fund civil legal services, court officials say
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Top court officials throughout the state gathered in Albany last week to hear from attorneys, judges and everyday New Yorkers about the state of civil legal services in New York. Chief Judge Rowan Wilson led the panel, featuring Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas, Presiding Justices Hector LaSalle, Dianne Renwick and Gerald Whalen, Appellate Division Justice Christine Clark and New York State Bar Association President Richard Lewis, tasked with assessing the needs of the civil legal services industry in the state.
Read MoreGov signs anti-human trafficking bills into law in Queens
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The governor was in Queens on Wednesday to announce a number of new initiatives to fight human trafficking throughout the state. From inside the Glow Cultural Center in Downtown Flushing, Governor Kathy Hochul signed several bills aimed at decreasing instances of human trafficking, which she called one of the “most enduring forms…of exploitation.”
Read MoreSeveral Queens assemblymembers to face challengers
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The 2024 election for Queens’ Assembly seats may be a ways away – but that hasn’t stopped a number of incumbents and challengers from starting up their campaign efforts. Recent filings with the state’s Board of Elections show a number of potentially interesting Assembly races slated for next year in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreState has ‘dire need’ for more judges, city bar says
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New York State has a “dire need” for more trial court judges, according to a recently released report from the New York City Bar Association. In the report, which was released earlier this month, the city bar association calls on the New York State legislature to work toward repealing the state’s constitutionally prescribed cap on the number of judges that can be elected to the state’s Supreme Courts.
Queens pols look to landmark Maspeth firehouse
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Just over 22-years ago, nearly two dozen firefighters from Maspeth’s Squad 288 and HazMat 1 firehouse were killed after they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, marking the largest loss of life from any single firehouse that day. Now, local officials are trying to get the century-old building where they served designated as a city landmark in their honor.
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