The family of a Bayside man who died on Rikers Island last year is suing the city’s Department of Correction after the agency allegedly wrongly withheld information about the man’s death.
Read MoreDepartment of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie says she can reform the jails on Rikers Island, but decades of dysfunction suggests otherwise.
Read MoreWhen Mayor Eric Adams announced the city had made a budget agreement last Friday, he chose to highlight one specific budget note in one specific Queens neighborhood; the Rockaway peninsula trauma center.
Read MoreDrivers on certain streets in Queens are going to need to slow down in the near future as the city begins to implement a state law designed to increase safety on city streets.
Read MoreDan Garodnick, the chair of the CPC and the director of the Department of City Planning, spoke with the Eagle to discuss the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity.
Read MoreFollowing the drowning of two teens in the waters off of Rockaway Beach, locals are once again calling for increased safety measures along the borough’s and city’s shores.
Read More“Jeffrion Aubry’s retirement marks the end of an era in our state. He emerged from and remained rooted in the community and stayed in the fight for justice for the long haul, even against daunting odds and even when his party wasn’t with him. New York is better – and the national movement to end mass incarceration is stronger – because of his work.”
Read MoreThe family of a 31-year-old man whose death in Department of Correction custody remains disputed over a year after it happened recently filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.
Read MoreTenants who lived in a Sunnyside building before it was destroyed by a fire late last year will receive another six months of temporary housing from their landlord, who faced public pressure in recent days to extend the tenants’ housing after initially threatening to end it.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAfter being closed down for renovations last summer, the Astoria Park pool, the city’s largest swimming pool, mostly opened up to the public again Thursday, along with public pools throughout the five boroughs.
Read MoreShannan Ferry, a Little Neck native, recently took over as the anchor of “News All Day” on Spectrum News NY1.
Read MoreThe city’s Board of Correction on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve its rules for the implementation of a new law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreThe family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old shot and killed by police in his Queens home in March, announced their intent to sue the NYPD for wrongful death on Tuesday.
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