Two 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 MoreA 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time in a month – and the second time in a week – that a Rikers detainee has died.
Read MoreSupporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.
Read MoreSeveral local Queens electeds and City Comptroller Brad Lander are calling on the city not to renew a contract with a borough hotel linked to an alleged illegal kickback scheme.
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.
Read MoreThe city this week rolled out its ambitious plan to redevelop a major section of Downtown Jamaica, two years after it first began exploring the idea of overhauling the area that has been plagued by decades of disinvestment.
Read MoreA 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail complex in less than a month.
Read MoreQueens Representative Greg Meeks and Appellate Division Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson helped unveil a postage stamp of trailblazing Black judge and politician Constance Baker Motley in Jamaica on Tuesday.
Read MoreA vast majority of criminal court judges in New York do not choose to publish the decisions they make in the cases they oversee, a new report released this week found.
Read MoreSeveral Queens candidates in crowded races for the mayor’s office and the City Council were approved for matching funds by the city’s Campaign Finance Board on Monday morning, while some also announced massive fundraising hauls that will also soon multiply under the city’s matching funds program.
Read MoreEugene Kelty, Jr., a former firefighter who helped lead the evacuation of downtown Manhattan on 9/11 and who served as the longtime chair of Queens’ Community Board 7, died over the weekend after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.
Read MoreIt has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number of health officials recognized the life-saving work of doctors and nurses at the “epicenter of the epicenter”
Read MoreThe MTA will soon hold a series of public town halls on their ambitious plan to build a light rail from Queens to Brooklyn, even as funding for the project remains in question.
Read MoreA pilot program from the state’s court system meant to reduce the ballooning population on Rikers Island has seen early successes, officials claim.
Read MoreQueens’ St. John’s University men’s basketball team has achieved a lot this year, and one they hope to add too that success as they head into the Big East Tournament Thursday night, where they are the top seed. Should they win, it will be their first title in 25 years. It would also make them a team to beat in the upcoming NCAA March Madness tournament.
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