Claire Valdez, the Democratic Socialist of America-backed candidate challenging embattled lawmaker Juan Ardila in next year’s race for Assembly District 37, was endorsed this week by Make the Road Action.
Read MoreLongtime Western Queens Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry confirmed on Tuesday that his long-rumored retirement will come at the end of his current term in December 2024.
Read MoreThe New York State attorney general, a top bar association, scores of public defense organizations, several former New York City officials and a criminal justice nonprofit all called on a federal judge to strip control over Rikers Island away from the city and hand it over to a court-appointed receiver.
Read MoreA violent and bloody stabbing spree in Far Rockaway on Sunday left the perpetrator and four others dead and three people, including two cops, injured.
Read MoreThe newly formed Queens County Criminal Bar Association, founded by a group of defense attorneys and prosecutors from across the field of New York criminal law, convened for their first meeting recently and hope to soon be the voice attorneys working in the borough’s criminal court.
Read MoreOn Friday morning, by an overwhelming two-thirds majority vote, the United States House of Representatives voted to expel Queens and Long Island representative George Santos from their body, making him only the third member since the Civil War to be kicked out of Congress.
Read MoreWith his days as Department of Correction commission numbered, Louis Molina was given a scathing review by the federal monitor charged with keeping track of violence on Rikers Island.
Read MoreCity Hall has committed to exploring the possibility of bringing a new police precinct to Northeast Queens.
Read MoreIn response to a long list of pedestrian and cycling deaths in Western Queens, a group of elected officials and advocates released a comprehensive plan to make scores of improvements they believe will increase street safety in the area.
Read MoreCity Hall said Louis Molina would move from Department of Correction commissioner to assistant deputy mayor in “mid-November.” But in a sworn affidavit this week, Molina said he remains in charge of the agency, and doesn’t know when a successor will be named.
Read MoreSeveral months after the Adams administration gave the boot to longtime vendors selling their wares without a license in Corona Plaza, the mayor’s office announced that a new program will soon be put in place to allow a select number of unlicensed vendors to return to the once bustling plaza.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams and officials with the Department of Education discussed the future of Hillcrest High School following the fallout from a reported riot at the Jamaica school last week during his weekly off-topic press conference on Tuesday.
Read MoreWestern Queens was quite literally split over Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Citi Field’s parking lot during a town hall hosted by State Senator Jessica Ramos.
Read MoreThe city’s school chancellor made a trip Monday afternoon to Hillcrest High School, the site of a reported “riot” the week prior by students angered by a teacher who posted their support of Israel to social media.
Read MoreBut after a 10-year hiatus, The Beacon, the school’s student newspaper was recently revived and has been shining a light on issues affecting Forest Hills High School students all year.
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