New bill aims to help DAs with discovery
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A new bill introduced in Albany this week aims to help prosecutors catch up with new discovery laws by giving them access to the online databases of police departments and other agencies.
Read MoreDecades in the making, Southeast Queens’ 116th Precinct opens
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After a four-decade campaign filled with starts, stops, delays and broken promises, Southeast Queens residents celebrated on Wednesday the opening of the new 116th Precinct in Rosedale.
Read MoreAs Adams welcomes Trump’s border czar, Queens migrants brace for impact
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With Donald Trump vowing mass deportations and Mayor Eric Adams meeting with the president-elect’s new “border czar,” Queens is poised to be the center of a fight over immigration.
Read MoreCreedmoor to stay open as city begins to shut other migrant shelters
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The city will keep open one of its largest and most controversial migrant shelters as it moves to close over a dozen other shelters throughout Queens and the other four boroughs.
Read MoreMuriel Goode-Trufant confirmed as NYC corporation counsel
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After 6 months of tensions between the mayor and the City Council, New York City finally has an official and permanent corporation counsel.
Read MoreCouncil takes mayor to court for blocking law banning solitary on Rikers
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Mayor Eric Adams was sued by the City Council on Monday for his refusal to implement a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreCity of Yes gets final ‘yes’ from City Council
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The mayor’s sweeping and controversial plan to address the city’s housing crisis known as the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity cleared its final and highest hurdle on Thursday when it was approved by the New York City Council.
Read MoreNYCFC breaks ground on Willets Point stadium
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The city officially broke ground on New York City Football Club’s future stadium in Willets Point on Wednesday, a little more than two years after Mayor Eric Adams first announced that the soccer club would one day build its future home in Queens.
Read MorePols call for immigration legal services boost as Trump builds deportation anxiety
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As fears of what a second Donal Trump presidency could mean for immigrants across the country grow, New York elected officials are using that anxiety to revitalize support for expanded immigrant legal representation and funding.
Read MoreMayor defends his record on Rikers as federal takeover looms
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Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended his administration’s efforts to quell violence and disorder on Rikers Island, a little less than a week after a federal judge said she was leaning toward taking the jail complex out of the city’s hands for its failure to keep detainees safe.
Read MoreMayor makes vague pitch to turn borough-based jail into mental health treatment facility
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Mayor Eric Adams pitched a vague plan to turn one of the city’s proposed – and extremely delayed – borough-based jail facilities into a mental health treatment jail, confusing advocates and lawmakers who say the mayor has thus far resisted calls to support treatment facilities and programs for detainees.
Read MoreCity of Yes clears Council committees with substantial changes
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The mayor’s sprawling and controversial plan to rework the city’s zoning laws in an effort to encourage more housing construction cleared a major hurdle Thursday after undergoing some significant changes.
Read MoreFollowing Mastro disaster, new corp counsel pick cruises through City Council
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The City Council on Wednesday had few objections to the mayor’s pick for the city’s top attorney, a sharp contrast from their feelings toward his last pick, Randy Mastro, who withdrew his nomination after an all-day grilling from lawmakers over the summer.
Read MoreJessica Tisch named NYPD commissioner
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Mayor Eric Adams officially named Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch as the city’s new top cop, making her the fourth person to serve as the head of the NYPD during Adams’ mayoral tenure.
Read MoreCity Council hangs onto hopes of a QueensLink
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Some members of the City Council are still hanging onto hope that the city will decide to resurrect an old train line that they believe would change South Queens locals’ lives for the better, rather than build a park along the elevated tracks.
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