Chief Judge Rowan Wilson doesn’t just want to reimagine how New York’s courts operate, he wants to reimagine why they operate. For the first time since taking office as the top judge in the state last spring, Wilson delivered his State of the Judiciary speech from the Court of Appeals’ courtroom in Albany on Tuesday.
Read MoreDemocrats in the state legislature voted on Monday to toss out congressional redistricting lines drawn by a bipartisan commission, choosing to draw and propose their own maps – which have little impact on district boundaries in Queens.
Read MoreLocal Eastern Queens electeds and community members criticized the Adams administration on Monday for considering additional beds for the migrant shelter located near the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Read MoreHundreds of lawyers this week called on the governor and state legislature to include in the state’s upcoming budget a bill from a Queens lawmaker that would increase the amount of student loan forgiveness for public interest attorneys saddled with debt from law school.
Read MoreQueens elected officials and advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on Friday in support of a bill that they say will help the city crackdown on illegal pot shops – but just how that crackdown would look under the bill remains unclear.
Read MoreThe 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.
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