Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the city would up its effort to cut down illegal vending, littering and sex trafficking on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue. But critics said the mayor’s dedication to cleaning up the notorious street in Western Queens sounded eerily familiar to his past efforts to cut back on crime on Roosevelt, leading some to wonder if the new plan will actually lead to any lasting change.
Read MoreEric Adams became the first New York City mayor in modern history to be criminally charged while in office on Thursday.
Read MoreQueens State Senator Jessica Ramos is announcing that she will be running for mayor, joining a growing list of primary opponents to Mayor Eric Adams.
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 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 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.
Read MoreState 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 MoreA 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 MoreNew York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Read MoreNearly 69 percent of respondents to a new, “unscientific” survey from State Senator Jessica Ramos said they didn’t want a casino built in their neighborhood as Mets owner Steve Cohen continues his bid to bring one to Citi Field’s parking lot.
Read MoreThere were two sets of varying expectations resting on the shoulders of the New York Mets and their owner as the team kicked off its 2024 baseball season in Queens on Friday.
Read MoreQueens elected officials and families are saying enough is enough when it comes to traffic fatalities as they mourn the recent deaths of two children on Queens streets.
Read MoreA 52-year-old man from Flushing is facing nearly half a decade in prison after cops say he fatally ran over an 8-year-old boy and injured the boy’s 10-year-old brother in East Elmhurst on Wednesday afternoon.
Read MoreBoth houses of the legislature took major steps this week toward approving legislation from a Queens lawmaker that would increase the amount of student loan forgiveness public interest attorneys who are saddled with debt from law school could receive from the state.
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