Queens World Film Festival fosters community at LGBTQ+ film screening
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“It’s about having a collective experience where we imagine together.”
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Election results: Queens Democratic Party mostly staves off insurgent candidate challenges
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It was mostly a good night Tuesday for the Queens County Democratic Party, whose candidates in primary races across the borough faced credible threats from insurgent candidates.
Read MoreQueens voters cast ballots in hotly contested primary races
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New York’s heat wave may have broken just before Tuesday’s primary elections, but a number of contested races throughout Queens had yet to cool down. Across the World’s Borough on Tuesday, a relatively small number of voters headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a number of hotly contested Democratic primary elections – and one Republican primary – in Queens.
Read MoreVeteran Queens lawmaker passes final bill
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After three decades in Albany, Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry will retire at the end of his current term in December. Though he wrote and passed bills touching on a range of issues, Aubry was particularly focused on passing criminal justice-related bills during his time in the state capitol, which ended – at least, legislatively – earlier this month with the passage of the Jury of Our Peers Act in the final days of the legislative session.
Read MoreCouncil looks to ban recording of detainee phone calls
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The City Council on Thursday introduced a bill that they say would stop the city’s Department of Correction from recording calls made by detainees inside Rikers Island without first getting a warrant.
Read MoreAll but two Queens judicial candidates approved by city bar association
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The New York City Bar Association on Tuesday released its ratings of judicial candidates running in competitive Democratic primary races throughout the five boroughs.
Read MoreSolitary confinement ban comes into view, but city challenge remains
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Advocates, lawmakers and public defenders on Monday urged the city’s jail watchdog to ensure that the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement be fully implemented before the end of next month, despite ongoing efforts from the city and Department of Correction to delay the law’s enactment.
Read MoreElmhurst docs rally for new contract
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Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital, known as the epicenter of the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, rallied on Tuesday alongside their union Doctors Council SEIU, saying that they want more than pot and pan banging from city officials as they negotiate a new contract.
Read MoreKim faces competitive primary challenge in Flushing
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The race to represent Flushing-centered Assembly District 40 appears to be a tight one, with incumbent Assemblymember Ron Kim locked in a competitive primary to represent the heart of Queens’ Asian American community.
Read MoreRockaway takes step toward new trauma hospital, but major questions remain
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It’s been over a decade since Rockaway’s Peninsula Hospital shuttered its doors. The closure was the start of what locals have described as a dwindling and inadequate healthcare system in Queens’ southernmost community, which often posts among the highest rates of child mortality, shootings and homicides.
Read MoreCongestion pricing debate comes to a head at foot of Queensborough Bridge
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The fight over Governor Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing pause came to a head at the foot of the Queensborough Bridge on Friday as a local Queens pol who has long been opposed to the now-delayed toll sparred with transit advocates and prevented a local city councilmember supportive of congestion pricing from making remarks to the press.
Read MoreHoward Beach comes together to battle the moon and rising tides
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During full and new moons, when tides get higher than normal, water from the basins that surround the neighborhoods of Old Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach flood into the streets and the homes of the residential area in South Queens. The flooding now happens at least twice a month.
Read MoreWendy Li not approved by QCBA in Surrogate’s Court race
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The Queens County Bar Association on Wednesday said that one of the two Democratic candidates running for an impending vacancy on the coveted Surrogate’s Court bench was “not approved” for the seat.
Read MoreA conversation with Surrogate judge candidate Wendy Li
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Surrogate’s Court Candidate Wendy Li recently spoke with the Eagle by phone about her position in the race, her hopes for the Surrogate’s Court, her eyebrow-raising fundraising and more.
Read MoreDeath gamble’ bill passes in Albany
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Judges are applauding a bill passed in Albany last week that would nearly eliminate the so-called “death gamble,” which they say forced them to choose between staying on the bench or retiring for the sake of their family’s financial future.
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