The City Council on Tuesday voted to override the mayor’s veto of a bill aimed at increasing transparency in the NYPD and a bill to ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails, putting to an end a weeks-long public debate riddled with accusations from both councilmembers, Mayor Eric Adams and his allies that the other side purposely were spreading half-truths or outright lies.
Read MoreA group of South Queens elected officials are calling on the city to pull a private contractor from an affordable housing project in Rockaway after the company failed to notify the city of an injury that occurred on the construction site last year.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul signed a Queens assemblymember’s bill, which looks to expand the state’s definition of rape, into law on Tuesday.
Read MorePaul Vallone, a former Queens councilmember and member of one of the borough’s most notable political families, died over the weekend of an apparent heart attack. He was 56.
Read MoreCEO and President of Fortune Society Stanley Richards recently sat down with the Eagle to discuss the organization’s legislative agenda, the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction’s new commissioner as well as his goals as Fortune’s president.
Read MoreQueens Public Library CEO, borough native and former Department of Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott was appointed to the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission by the state senate majority leader on Friday.
Read MoreLeadership of the state’s court system asked lawmakers on Thursday to approve their proposed $2.7 billion budget, which comes in over 5 percent larger than their budget for the previous year.
Read MoreSeveral Queens and Brooklyn elected officials are calling on the MTA to consider running the G train along its former route, deeper into Queens, now that the transit authority has announced plans to do work on the line that will likely cause major service disruptions.
Read MoreThe second phase of the development of Willets Point took another step in its long road to city approval this week, appearing before the commissioners of the City Planning Commission on Wednesday.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams delivered the third State of the City speech of his term from the Bronx on Wednesday, touting his administration’s efforts to reduce crime and boost the economy while also laying out a number of policy goals his administration will attempt to deliver ahead of his expected bid for reelection next year.
Read MoreThe fight between the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams over a pair of vetoed criminal justice bills came to a boil Tuesday as both attempted to make their cases for and against the legislation from City Hall.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed a pair of recently passed City Council bills, setting up an imminent showdown with the legislature that the mayor is likely to lose.
Read MorePolice arrested a 27-year-old on Wednesday that they believe stabbed half a dozen people in separate incidents across Queens this month.
Read MoreQueens members of the City Council’s Common Sense Caucus and Queens Assemblymember David Weprin rallied in support of a new lawsuit filed against the plan to bring congestion pricing to Manhattan.
Read MoreLeadership of the City Council on Thursday announced which councilmembers will be serving on which committees and which lawmakers will be in charge of them.
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