City gets power to padlock illicit pot shops
/After months of calls for more power in policing illegal smoke shops, city officials finally got their wish by way of the state budget.
Read MoreAfter months of calls for more power in policing illegal smoke shops, city officials finally got their wish by way of the state budget.
Read MoreA group of over a dozen city councilmembers this week called on the Adams administration to reverse its decision to up the number of beds in Queens’ yet-to-be-built borough-based jail facility.
Read MoreA bill that aims to increase safety protections for judges and court staff has officially been included in the state’s tardy budget.
Read MoreDespite seeing improvements during a recent visit to Rikers Island, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards says he believes no amount of refurbishment will be enough to justify keeping the troubled jail complex open – and that a federal takeover of the jail should remain on the table.
Queens College on Tuesday became the fifth full-time location for CUNY Citizenship Now!, an effort which provides free legal assistance for immigrant students and their families.
The city’s Department of Correction unlawfully recorded all calls made and received by detainees in the city’s custody, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Read MoreSeveral members of the New York State Senate, Assembly and City Council gathered Sunday morning in Eastern Queens to honor the late former Assemblymember and Queens community leader Nettie Mayersohn.
Read MoreIt is likely the concert season at Forest Hills Stadium will start on time this year, after a Queens judge ruled against a group of locals hoping to at least delay the start of concert season while the court considers their allegations that the venue has lowered quality of life in the residential neighborhood.
Read MoreJustice was at the center of Borough President Donovan Richards' State of the Borough Address on Friday, where the BP laid out plans to make the technology industry, housing and the environment more equitable for the people of the World’s Borough.
Read MoreDecades of the city’s failed attempts to develop a long-polluted corner of Queens appeared to come to an end on Thursday as the City Council overwhelmingly voted to approve a plan to bring affordable housing and the city’s first soccer stadium to Willets Point.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards is set to announce he’s allotting $2.3 million for hydroponics labs in nine schools across the borough during his State of the Borough speech on Friday, the Eagle has learned.
Read More“Hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in our state face the terrifying prospect of deportation and forced family separation, simply because they do not have access to legal representation in a complex and often unforgiving immigration system.”
Read MoreA Queens man was sentenced to three decades in prison on Wednesday for the mistaken murder of a teenager which subsequently sparked a gang feud that turned South Jamaica into a battlefield.
Read MoreThree former correctional officers, a Rikers Island program counselor, a jails contractor and a detainee were all charged this week in federal court for scheming to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the city’s notorious jail complex.
Read MoreQueens Community Board 9 honored member Sylvia Hack for half a century of community service on Tuesday night.
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