Over a hundred legal advocacy and prisoner rights groups called on the state to pursue more ways to shrink the state’s prison population, including expanded use of clemency powers.
Read MoreOf the more than 40 speakers who testified before the community advisory committee for the Resorts World casino project on Wednesday, every single one spoke in favor of the Queens gaming company’s $5.5 billion proposal to become the largest casino in the United States.
Read MoreA coalition of over 100 local and state elected officials are joining activists in calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to kill a controversial and potentially harmful fracked gas pipeline that would run off the coast of Queens.
Read MoreQueens’ courts have a shortage of court interpreters and have seen a major reduction in their ranks over the past half decade.
Read MoreIssuing her first round of clemencies in eight months, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday pardoned 13 people but chose not to commute the sentence of a single New Yorker, despite the fact that commutation request make up a vast majority of the hundreds of clemency applications sent to the governor’s desk each year.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards officially endorsed the Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, on Friday after declining to weigh in during the Democratic primary.
Read MoreAttorneys at Brooklyn Defender Services, the legal services group that absorbed Queens Defenders’ criminal practice last month, picketed their employer on Thursday over a recent change in employment policy.
Read MoreAn energy company is trying to resurrect a controversial and potentially harmful fracked gas pipeline that would run off the coast of Queens, and is being met with a familiar backlash after trying to build the pipeline three times before.
Read MoreThe state consistently violates judicial orders by leaving detainees in need of psychiatric treatment ahead of their trial behind bars for months at a time, a new lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreThe city’s plan to rezone a major section of Jamaica in the hopes that it invites massive housing and commercial development was approved by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday, the final step before the plan comes for a final vote before the City Council.
Read MoreThe city is proposing a new massive effort to expand greenways across Queens and the five boroughs.
Read MoreA group of public defender organizations and immigration nonprofits are calling on a federal court to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging a New York State law that protects immigrants when they appear in court.
Read MoreThe New York attorney general’s office on Tuesday released footage of the police shooting of a knife-wielding 60-year-old man in Astoria earlier this year as the AG continues their investigation into the officers who shot the fatal bullets.
Read MoreDespite Democratic party bosses in several other boroughs in the city throwing their weight behind Zohran Mamdani in his bid for mayor, Congressman Gregory Meeks, who serves as the chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party, has yet to weigh in on the race since Mamdani cruised to victory in the Democratic primary in June.
Read MoreEvery police precinct in Queens will soon be outfitted with a team of officers whose sole purpose is to address quality-of-life issues, the mayor and police commissioner announced on Monday from Astoria.
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