The coalition Assemblymember Juan Ardila built and rode to victory in 2022 has dissipated. But instead of lining up behind just one of his two challengers in the upcoming primary election, they’ve split.
Read MoreOver 1,000 airport workers between Queens’ two airports rallied on Thursday to call for higher pay and increased benefits just weeks before their labor contract runs out at the end of the month.
Read MoreThe Adams administration said this week that it plans to mount a legal challenge to a law banning solitary confinement in New York City’s jails, around two months before it is supposed to go into effect.
Read MoreA meeting in Queens was the second overall meeting of Mayor Eric Adams’ recently-convened Charter Revision Commission, but the first planned to take public input. But one thing was largely missing for the Wednesday meeting at Queens Borough Hall – the public.
Read MoreFormer Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina has been tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to lead the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
Read MoreLast week, eight Queens residents graduated from the borough’s treatment courts. The courts are designed to divert people away from traditional criminal prosecution and toward services that could help them turn their life around. They may soon be expanding.
Read More“Real accountability means more than just punishment. It means transforming your behavior. That should be at the heart of any quest for justice.”
Read More“The trucking industry plays a critical role in sustaining the city that never sleeps. Yet, our city streets are not currently set up to support this.”
Read More“It is more important than ever for community members to make their voices heard [on the MTA’s redesign of Queens’ bus network].”
Read MoreDespite the city’s instance that if given more time it can turn around its troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, the Legal Aid Society said in a Thursday court filing that enough was enough, and reiterated its call for a federal judge to strip control of the jail from the city and hand it over to a court-appointed authority.
Read MoreA discarded fork helped law enforcement get an indictment in a 15-year-old Queens murder last week, marking the first time a homicide suspect was identified and arrested in New York City using a public genealogy database.
Read MoreFormer Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul quietly granted clemency to over a dozen New Yorkers last week, just before the start of Memorial Day weekend.
Read MoreAfter 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 MoreTenants 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.
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