Astoria locals and elected officials celebrated the opening of the controversial 31st Street bike lane over the weekend while several local businesses continue to fight it in court.
Read MoreThe mayor on Friday appointed a prominent criminal justice expert to lead the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, the NYPD’s oversight body, marking the first time in over six years that the watchdog group has had a permanent chairperson.
Read MoreThe Ozone Park and Queens community laid to rest a fallen neighbor on Friday.
Read MoreOfficials in Queens said this week that they want to reverse decades of underfunding of the borough’s largest and most well-known green space, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Read MoreThe Mamdani administration announced a plan to build 1,000 homes on a vacant city-owned lot in Long Island City earlier this week – but some community leaders say the project won’t go far enough to make Queens' most expensive neighborhood more affordable.
Read MoreThe city’s “worst landlords” are facing a new class action lawsuit after they allegedly overcharged rent-stabilized Queens residents by millions of dollars without implementing legally required improvements to their apartments.
Read MoreFaculty members at Queens’ largest City University of New York college are pushing back against budget cuts, which have led to a number of cancelled classes and layoffs of adjunct professors.
Read MoreA public defender union has accused its employer of offering cash incentives to members who cross the picket line as a mass legal aid strike continues across the city.
Read MoreThe MTA says it needs to make changes to two Queens stations in order to address major bottleneck issues centered in Brooklyn.
Read MoreA Queens congressmember blasted the Trump administration for removing Staff Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, who was from Queens, and three others from the Iran war’s official death toll.
Read MoreThere is a new sheriff in town after Edwin Raymond was sworn into the role on Monday.
Read MoreThe New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination is currently receiving and reviewing applications for anyone seeking a seat on New York’s Court of Appeals, as Senior Associate Judge Jenny Rivera approaches the end of her term on the top court.
Read MoreThe labor fight at several public defender organizations continued over the weekend after a third group of unionized attorneys went on strike on Monday, bringing the total number of lawyers and legal staff on the picket line back up to 500.
Read MoreA freshman Queens councilmember who inherited his predecessor’s beef with a company trying to build a lithium-ion battery storage site in the district wants the governor to pass a moratorium on their construction statewide.
Read MoreThe former executive director of Queens Defenders and her ex-husband were sentenced to prison on Tuesday after siphoning off over $656,000 from the nonprofit, “effectively destroying" the organization that once represented tens of thousands of low-income clients facing criminal charges in the World’s Borough.
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