Speaker’s gavel stays in Queens
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The gavel belonging to the speaker of the New York City Council will stay in Queens after South Queens representative Adrienne Adams was unanimously re-elected to the role.
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Governor and AG kick off new year with affordability, consumer protection goals
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Governor Kathy Hochul and State Attorney General Letitia James laid out a new agenda of consumer protection and affordability plans on Tuesday, giving a preview of goals the governor will lay out in her 2024 State of the State address.
Read MoreSmall earthquake rumbles in Queens
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A small earthquake rumbled parts of Western Queens early on Tuesday morning, shaking in the new year and causing explosions at Roosevelt Island just across the water from the World’s Borough.
Read MoreJackson Heights school health clinic closed by city with little explanation
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The little-explained closure of a city-run Gotham Health clinic inside a Jackson Heights school is hitting students and parents hard, and has left a gap in healthcare for students and families struggling to find it elsewhere.
Read MoreNo sprinklers or guards as detainees were trapped during Rikers fire, report says
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Detainees were held in locked cells that were filling up with smoke for nearly a half hour as a fire spread through a Rikers Island facility in April, a new report from the city’s Board of Correction found.
Read MoreAdvocates call on gov to sign wrongful convictions bill into law
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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 MoreHillcrest principal out following student riot last month
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One 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 MoreOn the way to QueensWay: City pitches new park project to locals
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Parks 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 MoreCouncil bans solitary confinement
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The 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 breaks ground at Willets Point
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City 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 MoreGov signs Queens pol’s reparations bill into law
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Governor 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 MoreCouncil calls on Albany to pass parole reform bills
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The 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 MoreOpinion: Police stops in NYC are at their highest level since 2015. The NYPD doesn’t want us to know just how high
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As 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 MoreNotorious Snake Road to be subject of flood study
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A 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 MoreCity expands commission to close Rikers: Lippman Commission grows as mayor’s position on jail’s closure shifts
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Over 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.
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