Gov grants clemency to over a dozen New Yorkers, including two convicted of murder
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Governor Kathy Hochul quietly granted clemency to over a dozen New Yorkers last week, just before the start of Memorial Day weekend.
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Cohen’s Citi Field casino rejected by local pol
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After nearly a year of playing her cards close to her chest, Queens State Senator Jessica Ramos dropped her poker face Tuesday and announced that she won’t support New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s bid to bring a casino to Citi Field.
Read MoreQueens tenants sue state agency over handling of notorious landlord
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Tenants in three Queens neighborhoods are suing the state after it greenlit rent increases requested by their landlord, who the tenants say inflated the costs of building improvements to justify the allegedly unfair rent hikes.
Read MoreSupremely confusing: Pol pitches plan to change court names
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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 MoreNYCFC finalizes Willets Point lease with city
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A 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 MoreLawmakers want to raise Supreme Court justice cap, but judges aren’t on board
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Legislators 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 MoreWith clock ticking, pols urge Ramos to bet on Cohen’s casino dreams
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A 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 More‘Unsustainable’: QPL head warns that cuts could bring further woes to Queens’ libraries
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Double 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 MoreQueens pol wants to speed up dealing of casino licenses
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A 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 dead in Queens crashes over the weekend, including 5-year-old boy
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Four 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 MoreJail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract
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The 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 MoreAdvocates rally for restoration of Queens library funding
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Queens 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 More‘A little perplexed’: Questions raised over city’s $4 billion contract for construction of Queens jail
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Advocates 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 MoreRozario family denies mayor reached out as Adams says ‘no’ to discipline for officers
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Hours 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 MorePublic defenders call on judge to dismiss landlord suit brought against court system
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Several 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.
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