The prospect of the largest public defender strike in 30 years grew likelier Tuesday as hundreds of attorneys across a trio of organizations walked out of their offices and took to the picket line.
Read MoreMoney has begun to flow following the first public matching fund payout for the upcoming general election season, with several Queens candidates pulling in cash for their campaigns.
Read MoreQueens Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas has filed to primary State Senator Jessica Ramos for her Western Queens seat next year.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreFormer 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 MoreThe 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 More60-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 MoreThe 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 MoreKristen 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 MoreThe Peoples’ House of Queens got a much-needed makeover with the completion of a newly renovated plaza outside of its Queens Boulevard entrance.
Read MoreA 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreTwo 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 MoreThe 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 MoreA 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.
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