Queens Courts celebrates the Year of the Snake
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Queens’ legal community gathered this week in a courtroom decorated in red to celebrate the 2025 Lunar New Year.
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Tensions boil over at meeting over Southeast Queens park
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Tensions over who is to blame for the troubling conditions at a Southeast Queens park and community center came to a head Monday night when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards got into a shouting match with a local organizer.
Read MoreQueens Defenders gets new interim executive director amid leadership shakeup
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Several days after the Queens Defenders’ founder and executive director was forced to go on leave by the organization’s board of directors, the public defense group has a new interim leader.
Read MoreRikers monitor endorses Adams’ pause on solitary ban
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The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report last week that a yet-to-be-implemented city law banning solitary confinement would “only exacerbate the current dangerous conditions” on Rikers Island.
Read MoreLocal pols fume over Creedmoor redevelopment
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The state’s plan to redevelop more than 50 acres of vacant land on the Eastern Queens Creedmoor campus drew the ire of several local elected officials last week.
Read MoreQueens Defenders' board forces out controversial executive director
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Lori Zeno, the controversial executive director of the Queens Defenders, was forced to go on immediate leave by the group’s board of directors this week.
Read MoreMTA approves new Queens bus map
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Six years after the MTA began redrawing Queens’ bus map, riders will finally begin seeing new routes hitting the streets as soon as June.
Read MoreFailure to decarcerate led to higher rates of COVID infections in NY jails and prisons, report finds
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A new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its jails and prisons as the pandemic raged inside of them.
Read MoreTen alleged members of international gun trafficking gang arrested in Queens
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The NYPD and Queens district attorney’s office arrested and charged 10 alleged members of the international weapon trafficking gang Tren de Aragua this week.
Read MoreQueens assigned counsel panel holds recruitment drive
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It’s been over a year since lawsuits against New York State resulted in the first pay raises for assigned counsel attorneys in decades, but the Queens 18-B Assigned Counsel panel is still looking to bolster their numbers for 2025.
Read MoreDOT completes first phase of Queens greenway workshops, but community still split on plan
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The New York City Department of Transportation wrapped up the first phase of community input sessions for the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway on a high note Tuesday night, but the communities along the proposed greenway are still split on the idea.
Read MoreDueling Queens casino bidders unveil new models of proposals
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The competing developers behind Resorts World New York City’s casino expansion project and Metropolitan Park almost simultaneously this month opened new models and visual representations of their projects to the public.
Read MoreTop Queens Criminal Court judge gives state of the judiciary address
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The top judge in Queens’ Criminal Court laid out the successes and failures of the court in the last year and mapped out the road for the year ahead during the Queens County Criminal Bar Association’s State of the Judiciary meeting on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens on edge as ICE makes arrests in the Bronx and Chicago
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Immigration advocacy groups and officials in the city and in Queens are on edge this week as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have made their way to the five boroughs.
Read MoreCouncil Republicans split over minority leader vote
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A schism has opened up right down the middle of the City Council’s Republican conference over who should be their next minority leader.
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