While the New York Mets lay the groundwork for their upcoming season in Florida, similar foundations are being laid for Steve Cohen’s casino next to Citi Field.

Locals in Northern Queens are once again calling for the city to meet their demands for a new police precinct in their community after it went unmentioned in the mayor’s preliminary budget released earlier this month.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin said Tuesday that the legislature’s ethics committee will expedite its inquiry into Islamophobic remarks made by City Councilmember Vickie Paladino, after the Queens Republican posted a fresh round of controversial comments online this week.

A former Queens Republican district leader who was convicted for storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection filed to run for the State Assembly, a little more than a year after he was pardoned for the crimes by President Donald Trump.

Queens’ 14 community boards made their annual funding pitch to the borough president during a public hearing on Monday – but the city’s fiscal outlook may make getting additional dollars to the local boards more difficult.

It’s the end of an era for the historic Jamaica Coliseum Mall, which officially closed at the beginning of the month.

A historic blizzard blew into Queens Sunday, bringing the borough to a crawl and covering it in nearly two feet of dense snow that fell well into Monday afternoon.

Queens Assemblymember Steven Raga threw his hat into the race to replace Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris in the State Senate, setting up a battle between the progressive lawmaker and Democratic Socialists of America-backed Aber Kawas.

City Hall last week unveiled a plan it says will finally bring the city into compliance with long-suspended jail oversight rules and a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers Island.

Despite bar associations and legal organizations across the state urging the governor to expand a public fund for civil legal services, the governor made no changes to the budget item in the slate of amendments to her proposed financial plan released last week.

“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.