New Yorkers who claim to have been wrongly convicted may have to wait at least another year before new avenues for them to challenge their convictions open up.
Read MoreOne month after a student protest over a pro-Israel teacher turned into a reported riot inside the halls of a Jamaica high school, the principal has resigned from his position.
Read MoreParks Department officials and developers for the first time unveiled their draft plans for a linear park along an unused rail line in Forest Hills dubbed the QueensWay during a virtual meeting this week.
Read MoreThe New York City Council passed a bill on Wednesday that bans the use of solitary confinement in the city’s jails, setting up a potential battle with the mayor who has expressed staunch opposition to the legislation.
Read MoreCity officials broke ground on the first phase of the redevelopment of Willets Point on Wednesday, marking a major step, however symbolic, toward the creation of an entirely new neighborhood in the long-neglected and polluted corner of Northwest Queens.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul signed a Queens lawmaker’s bill into law on Tuesday, establishing a commission to study reparations, and New York’s position in the history of slavery and racial injustice in America.
Read MoreThe City Council this week called on the state legislature to pass a pair of bills that would offer thousands of aging and elderly incarcerated New Yorkers new opportunities for release.
Read MoreAs public defenders, we know that even low-level encounters impact New Yorkers’ core constitutional “right to be left alone.” Under the law, we have the right to refuse to answer questions or simply to leave these encounters. In reality, few people feel empowered to walk away from an armed police officer questioning them.
Read MoreA strip of road in Southeast Queens notorious for its tendency to flood will finally be the subject of a grant-funded study into potential flood mitigation methods, much to the joy of locals who have been asking for changes to the road for decades.
Read MoreOver three dozen people have officially been appointed to serve on the second iteration of the Independent Rikers Commission, the group that has again been tasked with mapping a plan to shutter Rikers Island’s jail complex.
Read MoreEleven people were arranged on drug charges across three counties this week, including Queens, as part of a wild family business – peddling cocaine and fentanyl-laced heroin around the greater New York area.
Read MoreThe New York City Council is expected this week to vote on – and pass – a long-stalled bill that would effectively ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreAs New York City continues to manage a historic influx of migrants and asylum seekers, a group of legislators and advocates are looking to require those migrants have fair representation in New York’s courts.
Read MoreA federal judge found the Department of Correction in contempt of court on Thursday after it failed to communicate with the federal monitor about the opening of a secure housing unit in November.
Read MoreNew York City Football Club pitched their pitch to the borough president Wednesday as the team continued its efforts to get the city to approve its plans to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium in the center of what will one day be a completely new neighborhood in Western Queens.
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