The owner of an illegal South Queens gambling den who loaned money to former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich had been pressuring the former politician for a position with city government before both got busted for bribery, recorded phone calls played during Ulrich’s trial on Wednesday showed.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a new executive director and senior legal officer to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday.

Sixteen people, including one man from Queens, were arrested as part of a statewide investigation into staged car accidents that the governor said resulted in more than half a million dollars in fraudulent insurance claims.

The battle between St. John’s University and its former faculty unions headed to court last week as a federal judge began to weigh whether state labor laws are applicable to the Catholic institution.

The city’s Public Design Commission unanimously voted to table its vote on the design of a public-facing portion of the Metropolitan Park casino after a number of people testifying in opposition to the project on Tuesday raised concerns about the $8 billion complex’s impact on the local environment.

The trial for former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich, who is accused of taking over $150,000 in bribes while he served as a local lawmaker and as the city’s building’s commissioner under Mayor Eric Adams, officially began on Monday.

A Queens father is suing the city and the NYPD, accusing officers of deliberately crashing into a moped his son was on while trying to make a stop.

A Queens man already facing charges for allegedly killing an elderly woman in a car crash he caused is now facing hate crime charges for wrecking property outside a neighborhood bagel store that was flying Israeli flags.

Queens Civil Court’s plaza is getting an upgrade.

A retired firefighter from Queens was in Colombia in August when a devastating earthquake hit the country. He decided to stay and create a rescue team dubbed the Tunnel Rats.

“In my practice, I have seen how a decision made in a moment can change the course of a young person’s life. “

“Community-based alternatives to incarceration and post-release reentry programs are proving every day that public safety and decarceration are not competing goals.”

“Families are being presented with a false choice: Send your children to a brand-new, $92 million facility, or continue using an aging building that has been allowed to deteriorate.”

“With the mayoral elections coming up, it's important that we seek out representatives who will do right by their constituents and abolish Rikers once and for all. “

The Oklahoma-based Williams Transco company is proposing a pipeline through lower Hudson Harbor again. New York first rejected this pipeline in 2020, and now we must do it again. What’s good for a Tulsa gas company is terrible for Queens’ health and our wallets.

“For a corporate center that hosts more than a thousand employees every day — including staff at the Department of Corrections, Skanska, numerous firms and the headquarters of the Queens Chamber of Commerce — this change is more than an inconvenience. It is a step backward for our borough’s economy.”