Gov’s Interborough Express faces uncertain future after gov’s congestion pricing pause

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Gov’s Interborough Express faces uncertain future after gov’s congestion pricing pause

A little more than two years after Governor Kathy Hochul first introduced plans to build the Interborough Express, the future of her ambitious plan to build the much-needed public transit option for Queens and Brooklyn residents appears to be uncertain, almost entirely as a result of the governor's own 11th-hour pause on the implementation of the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.

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Election results: Queens Democratic Party mostly staves off insurgent candidate challenges

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Election results: Queens Democratic Party mostly staves off insurgent candidate challenges

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. 

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Queens voters cast ballots in hotly contested primary races

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Queens voters cast ballots in hotly contested primary races

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. 

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Veteran Queens lawmaker passes final bill

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Veteran Queens lawmaker passes final bill

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.

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Council looks to ban recording of detainee phone calls

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Council looks to ban recording of detainee phone calls

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.

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Solitary confinement ban comes into view, but city challenge remains

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Solitary confinement ban comes into view, but city challenge remains

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.

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Elmhurst docs rally for new contract

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Elmhurst docs rally for new contract

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.

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Rockaway takes step toward new trauma hospital, but major questions remain

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Rockaway takes step toward new trauma hospital, but major questions remain

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.

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