The mayor’s office and the City Council remained in a standoff over the closure of Rikers Island on Wednesday, unable to agree on how the city should chart a new path toward shutting the deadly jail complex.
Read MoreConcert-goers and Forest Hills Stadium are celebrating after the city cleared the way for the show to go on at the Queens venue after a denied permit amid an ongoing local dispute threatened to derail the summer concert season. But how long that greenlight will stay up remains to be seen.
Read MoreThe City Council on Tuesday sued Mayor Eric Adams and his administration over their plan to allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island.
Read MoreOver a dozen candidates running for City Council in Queens were gifted public matching funds by the city’s Campaign Finance Board on Tuesday.
Read MorePedestrians and cyclists alike are getting tired of the delays to the plan to open a new pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge.
Read MoreThe City Council on Thursday laid the groundwork to sue the mayor over his administration’s controversial executive order allowing federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move that lawmakers say could be a violation of the city’s sanctuary city laws.
Read MoreThough a number of major questions remain about the city’s early efforts to bring a long-desired level one trauma hospital to the Rockaway peninsula, the city recently checked off a big to-do off their list – figuring out where it will be built.
Read MoreA federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, putting to an end the legal saga that threw City Hall into crisis for the better part of the last half year.
Read MoreThe Department of Correction’s death toll continued to climb at a rapid rate this week after a 27-year-old died on Rikers Island on Monday night after allegedly suffering from a medical emergency.
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party and its chairman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, officially backed former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor over the weekend.
Read MoreA Queens-led coalition of lawmakers and civic groups on Wednesday sued Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to stop the implementation of the City of Yes, the city’s largest zoning overhaul in decades which stands to serve as a major marker of Adams’ time in office, should it stand.
Read MoreFormer Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
Read MoreConflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.
Read MoreTwo days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.
Read MoreIn a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the city to meet.
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