González-Rojas to primary Ramos
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Queens Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas has filed to primary State Senator Jessica Ramos for her Western Queens seat next year.
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Council passes bill to require DOC to report detainee deaths
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The City Council on Monday passed a bill that they say will bring transparency to the way the city’s Department of Correction announces and shares information about detainee deaths.
Read MoreCuomo restarts mayoral bid after primary loss
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Former Governor Andrew Cuomo re-kicked off his campaign for mayor on Monday, breaking his month-long silence after being handily defeated in the primary election last month.
Read MoreFirst group of legal services attys go on strike as deadline for mass strike approaches
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The largest public defender strike the city has seen in 30 years may start sooner than later, as a small group of legal services attorneys went on strike last week and as unions representing thousands of attorneys issued impending strike deadlines.
Read MoreMan behind ‘horrendous’ attack at Queens train station hit with max sentence
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60-year-old Wiliam Blount, who struck a health department with a hammer in her head over a dozen times in the Queens Plaza subway station in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years to life.
Read MoreCity must start implementing Council’s housing voucher expansion, court rules
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The Adams administration has to start enforcing a law the City Council passed in 2023 that expanded a key city rental assistance program, an appellate court ruled on Thursday.
Read MoreQueens County Bar Association’s newest president looks to the future
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Kristen Dubowski-Barba was officially installed as QCBA’s newest president last month, bringing with her a long career serving indigent and vulnerable populations throughout Queens and Brooklyn.
Read MoreBorough Hall gets a face-lift
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The Peoples’ House of Queens got a much-needed makeover with the completion of a newly renovated plaza outside of its Queens Boulevard entrance.
Read MoreRikers detainee dies day after atty filed for his release
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A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.
Read MoreHolding all the cards: Fate of Queens’ casino bidders rests with newly-appointed committees
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The local committees charged with reviewing bids from each of the developers hoping to snag one of the three downstate casino licenses up for grabs began to be formed this week, including the committees set to evaluate the two separate casino bids in Queens.
Read MorePogozelksi concedes to Wong in D30, Shanel Thomas-Henry holds lead
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Two City Council races appeared to come to an end on Tuesday after the Board of Elections released its latest vote count for the primary election that unfolded on June 24.
Read MoreICE detention of Queens student endangers New Yorkers and court system, Adams admin says
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The recent federal detention of a Queens high school student by ICE and continued federal deportation actions in the city are endangering New Yorkers as well as the sanctity of the city’s court system, the Adams administration said in a court letter this week.
Read MoreFederal judge blocks solitary confinement ban from taking effect on Rikers
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A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers Island, several days after a state judge said Mayor Eric Adams’ efforts to prevent the law from taking effect were illegal.
Read More‘More than a basketball tournament’: Nonprofit brings teens and incarcerated people together in Queens
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Flames basketball, a primarily Brooklyn-based youth basketball nonprofit, paid a visit to Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City.
Read MoreMamdani got Queens’ support on election day – can he now get it from his Queens colleagues?
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Queens Assemblymember and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani may have convinced the majority of voting New Yorkers to back him in the primary elections – but convincing his fellow Queens electeds to back him has proven a different story.
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