Queens City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing her colleagues after the legislature’s ethics committee charged her with violating the Council’s anti-discrimination and harassment rules for a series of Islamophobic remarks she posted to social media.

Queens residents told the city how they feel about their landlords at the Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing in the World’s Borough.

A decomposing head was found in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge late Thursday night, prompting a major law enforcement response on Friday, law enforcement sources told the Eagle.

Queens Republican Councilmember Vickie Paladino shot back after she was charged by the Council’s ethics committee over a slew of Islamophobic remarks she made on social media in recent months.

The number of times Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents asked the Department of Correction to give them a heads up before a detainee’s release so that they could make an arrest more than doubled during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, compared to the year prior.

Complaints made against New York judges reached an all-time high for the fifth year in a row, according to the commission charged with investigating judicial conduct.

New York’s top judge last week bashed the state’s sentencing laws, claiming “everything we are doing here is stupid,” while continuing his public plea for lawmakers to pass sentencing reforms.

The largest and oldest public defender firm in the country is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.

A Flushing man will spend 15 years behind bars after he admitted in court that he attempted to kill an 82-year-old woman in 2024, though his motive still remains unknown.

A library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as correction officials struggled to manage a swelling jail population caused by a state prison staffing crisis.

“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.”

“Metropolitan Park is a project that has been shaped by the people who live here. A steadfast partner of the community and Elmcor, Metropolitan Park has been intentional with its support for putting the community first. “

A LaGuardia Community College STEM grant program was cut by the Trump Administration and the professor is calling for it to be reinstated.

If we want LIC to stay accessible, we need to build more homes here. That’s why I support the OneLIC proposal.