The state’s court system has “made significant progress” in the past year modernizing its relatively archaic courthouses, according to the inaugural report from the Court Modernization Action Committee.
Read MoreIn a single month last year, Department of Correction officers used pepper spray on eight different detainees attempting to hang themselves, highlighting a concerning pattern in violation of department policy, according to a new report from the department’s citizen watchdog board.
Read MoreThe Long Island woman who in 2021 fatally ran over a highway patrol officer in Queens while driving drunk and high was sentenced to over two decades in prison on Wednesday.
Read MoreLawmakers last week introduced a bill that would eliminate the mandatory retirement age for a group of judges in New York.
Read MoreAnother worker was injured at the construction site of a Rockaway affordable housing development being run by a construction company that lawmakers in January demanded be taken off the project, the Eagle has learned.
Read MoreThe city is on the hunt for an organization that can run a first-of-its-kind market in Corona Plaza, around half a year after vendors were forcibly removed from the area by city officials for illegally selling food and goods.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul late last week reversed her plan to take money out of a fund meant to aid indigent defense services in New York and transfer it to the state’s general cash fund.
Read MoreThe New York State Independent Redistricting Commission voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a new state congressional district map that looks a lot like the one drawn by a court-appointed special master in 2022 following a litigious redistricting process that may not yet be out of the woods.
Read MoreFormer Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his philanthropic organization donated nearly $25 million to the city to build a first-of-its-kind high school aimed at fast tracking students into the medical field.
Read MoreDemocrat Tom Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip to win the special election for the 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday evening, overwhelmingly winning in the Queens portion of the district.
Read MoreThe Adams administration was sued on Wednesday by the Legal Aid Society for allegedly failing to enact a recent package of legislation that expands the eligibility of the city’s housing voucher program.
Read MoreThe Queens borough president’s office will receive the lowest funding per capita of all five borough presidents under Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed budget.
Read MoreQueens voters brave the strongest snow storm in three years to vote in the special election for the New York 3rd Congressional District.
Read MoreA bill that aims to increase the life expectancy of New Yorkers first introduced by a Queens councilmember was passed in the city’s legislature last week.
Read MoreA group of state lawmakers gathered in Albany on Monday to call on the governor to send $102 million to New York’s struggling Family Courts in the coming fiscal year.
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