The city’s Department of Correction may soon begin to implement parts of a local law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails, nearly two and a half years after the bill was first passed.
Read MoreThe first full-fledged casino in New York City opened on Tuesday in Queens, less than six months after the state approved the creation of two gaming facilities in the borough and one on its door step.
Read MoreThe city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long-delayed plan to shutter the troubled jail complex back on track.
Read MoreDespite not being convicted of the top murder charge, the man who shot and killed an NYPD officer in Queens was sentenced to 115 years in prison by a judge on Monday.
Read MoreInitially announced as a paid event in December, the Queens Fan Zone at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be free to enter for World Cup fans.
Read MoreFlyers calling for recruits to join a far-right Jewish group once dubbed a terrorist organization by the FBI were recently spotted in Queens, plastered to a parking meter across the street from the office of the borough’s top cop.
Read MoreOfficials broke ground on a new Queens housing development on Friday at a site nearly the size of similar housing projects at Creedmoor and Willets Point combined.
Read MoreA five-alarm fire tore through a historic church in Astoria on Thursday night.
Read MoreQueens judges on Thursday heard allegations of fraud, the use of AI in court filings and objections to thousands upon thousands of signatures on ballot petitions from Queens voters.
Read MoreThe city’s largest criminal legal aid organizations joined a national protest on Thursday, warning the constitutional right to counsel is being “systematically dismantled” as public defenders across the country struggle to keep up with mounting cases.
Read MoreThe final beam was placed Wednesday atop the $3 billion Brooklyn borough-based jail, which will one day be the first facility to be completed as part of New York City’s long-delayed plan to close Rikers Island.
Read MoreSt. John’s University is facing a new allegation from two faculty unions the school cut ties with earlier this year, escalating a labor conflict the university has already faced repeated criticism for.
Read MoreQueens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to support a controversial redesign of a busy Astoria strip.
Read MoreHundreds gathered in Roy Wilkins Park on Monday evening to mourn the death of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre, who was shot and killed in the park just days earlier.
Read MoreCity Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers’ first visit to Rikers Island came shortly after her election in 2021, when the jails were in an acute state of crisis.
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