Tami Eldridge is one of over 1,800 people with a clemency application pending with Governor Kathy Hochul, who has yet to commute the sentence of a single woman who applied for clemency since she took office four years ago.
Read MoreDistrict 30 is a politically complicated corner of Queens. While it maintains a strong Democratic majority, it has long been represented by Bob Holden, who has consistently voted with the Council’s Republican minority and co-chairs the conservative Common Sense Caucus in the Council.
Read MoreThe months-long saga of legal aid strikes came to its official end after the last striking union reached an agreement with their employer, but at an unexpected cost.
Read MoreQueens-raised President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Zohran Mamdani will have “problems” if he is ultimately elected to City Hall in November.
Read MoreLabor tensions escalated on Thursday as elected city officials and union members called for the executive director of the city’s second-largest public defense group to step down, less than a week after she was accused of attempting to break up her organization’s attorneys’ union.
Read MoreThe mayor is no longer running for reelection.
Read MoreResorts World’s plan to put the nation’s largest casino in Southeast Queens cleared a major hurdle on Thursday following unanimous approval from the community advisory committee tasked with reviewing it.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the former head of Queens Defenders accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars with her husband from the nonprofit she founded, has continued to siphon money from the organization as she awaits trial, according to the feds.
Read MoreThe odds keep getting better for the two Queens bidders hoping to score one of the three downstate casino licenses to be handed out by the state’s Gaming Commission at the end of the year.
Read MoreThe New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for over 24 hours at a time without access to proper medical care, a new lawsuit claims.
Read MoreAllegations against NYPD officers for excessive and unnecessary force have increased significantly in the last two years under Mayor Eric Adams, a new report from the comptroller’s office finds.
Read MoreThe city’s Department of Investigation is looking into the recent spate of deaths of New Yorkers while in the NYPD’s custody, police officials said during a City Council hearing on Monday.
Read MoreNew York’s court leaders have called for expanded civil legal services for years. But in the face of massive federal funding cuts for social services enacted earlier this year, they said last week that the funding has never been more desperately needed.
Read MoreJoseph Antos, a 44-year-old lifelong Whitestone resident, was named as the next Queens historian by Borough President Donovan Richards last week.
Read MoreThe boss of a top New York City public defense group tried to break up her organization's own attorney union by urging a lawyer to launch a competing one, union leaders alleged on Friday.
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