State Senator James Skoufis, a Hudson Valley lawmaker who was raised in Queens, introduced a bill last week that he believes will clear up some confusion about New York’s halls of justice.
Read MoreA group of Queens officials last week unanimously agreed to hand over the keys to a city-owned plot of land in Willets Point to developers who plan to soon build atop it over 1,000 units of affordable housing and the city’s first-ever stadium dedicated to soccer.
Read MoreLegislators are taking another shot at a constitutional amendment that they hope could lighten caseloads in the state’s busy courts by adding more Supreme Court judges.
Read MoreA trio of lawmakers this week upped the peer pressure on State Senator Jessica Ramos to open the door for Mets owner Steve Cohen to build an $8 billion casino and entertainment complex in Corona.
Read MoreDouble the wait times to check out books, over 100,000 potential Sunday visits lost and dozens of early closures or delayed openings – Queens' public libraries are in dire straits after struggling through several months of budget cuts, officials said on Tuesday during a City Council budget hearing.
Read MoreA Queens state senator last week proposed a bill that would speed up the state’s process for handing out a trio of casino licenses expected to hit New York City and its surrounding area next year.
Read MoreFour people, including a 5-year-old boy were killed in three unrelated incidents of traffic violence all within a day of each other in Queens over the weekend.
Read MoreThe city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.
Read MoreQueens officials and library advocates rallied in Forest Hills last week to call for the full restoration of funding for the Queens Public Library after the mayor in his most recent budget proposal made a number of cuts to the city’s libraries.
Read MoreAdvocates and a lawmaker on Thursday spoke out against the city’s proposed $4 billion contract for the building of Queens’ borough-based jail, which may be completed four years after the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island.
Read MoreHours after Mayor Eric Adams claimed on Tuesday that he reached out to the family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old from Queens who was shot and killed by NYPD officers inside his family’s Ozone Park home in March, Rozario’s family said they had yet to hear personally from the mayor.
Read MoreSeveral months after a group of landlords sued the state’s court system over its handling of eviction cases, a group of Queens-based organizations and the Legal Aid Society are attempting to put an end to the landlords’ lawsuit.
Read MoreElectric, zero emissions buses are coming to Queens with the addition of 60 new buses to the city’s fleet, officials announced on Tuesday.
Read MoreA pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil legal services work, just as she did in the state’s recently passed budget.
Read MoreNew York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
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