The owners of Resorts World New York City in Southeast Queens unveiled their proposal for a massive casino expansion and entertainment complex on Thursday, marking the latest proposal soon to be officially submitted to the state’s Gaming Commission and the second planned for Queens.
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 MoreState Senator Jessica Ramos said this week that she’s nearly ready to decide whether or not she’ll support New York Mets owner Steve Cohen in his bid to build a casino and entertainment complex on Citi Field’s parking lot.
Read MoreClimate and community advocates over the weekend unveiled a plan to bring a park to the city-owned land currently being used as Citi Field’s parking lot. The plan was pitched as an alternative to Mets owner Steve Cohen’s proposal to bring a casino and entertainment complex to the lot the city has designated as parkland but has never been used as such.
Read MoreLongtime Western Queens Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry confirmed on Tuesday that his long-rumored retirement will come at the end of his current term in December 2024.
Read MoreWestern Queens was quite literally split over Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Citi Field’s parking lot during a town hall hosted by State Senator Jessica Ramos.
Read MoreTorrential rainfall and heavy flooding walloped the Big Apple for hours on Friday, causing a number of issues for Queens residents and others in the five boroughs. In what is becoming a more and more familiar sight for New Yorkers, flood waters invaded everything from city streets, to low lying coastal areas, to subways stations, to the city’s airports.
Read More“There is a false choice hanging over Corona Plaza. An escalating discourse around street vending has created the impression that we have to choose between the right people have to earn an honest living and the right to clean, safe public space. But both should – and can – be true.”
Read MoreNew York Mets owner Steve Cohen may be all in on his desire to bring a casino to Western Queens – but the house is going to make him wait on his pay out.
Read MoreA Queens lawmaker introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow Mets owner Steve Cohen to build a casino on Citi Field’s parking lot.
Read MoreNearly a year after it began, the review of the proposed LaGuardia Airport AirTrain project has been completed – and there will likely be no AirTrain to Queens’ northern airport.
Read MoreA large cohort of Uber and Lyft drivers held a strike outside LaGuardia Airport on Sunday where no pickups were made as the drivers protested for higher wages amid inflation.
Read More“I don't begrudge any organizations or anybody from setting up their private schools, my concern is when those private schools want public dollars, and that's exactly what's happening here,” Queens State Senator John Liu said of Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to increase the number of charter schools in New York.
Read MoreYour state senator thinks they know where the best pizza in Queens is – are they right?
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