The final public hearing for Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Northern Queens was ended abruptly on Tuesday by the state committee tasked with reviewing it after a clash between community members opposed to the project and the committee's top official.
Read MoreThe City Council on Tuesday celebrated its victory over the Adams administration, successfully suing to prevent a mayoral executive order allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Rikers Island from taking effect.
Read MoreThe organization that took over Queens Defenders legal defense contract continues to see problems, after union members took to the picket line again in response to new work policies.
Read MoreA Long Island man was arraigned on murder charges in Queens this week after he allegedly purposefully drove his car into a family on Roosevelt Avenue, killing a teen after she and her mother rejected the man’s demands for sex.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender organization called on the Department of Investigation last week to probe the spike in deaths of those held in NYPD custody.
Read MoreThe city’s first-in-the-nation right to counsel program has failed to live up to its potential after years of underfunding and mismanagement have left around three quarters of eligible New Yorkers without full legal representation in Housing Court, a new report shows.
Read MoreQueens’ Democratic establishment has yet to endorse Democratic mayoral nominee and Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani after Governor Kathy Hochul threw her weight behind the local candidate over the weekend.
Read MoreThe NYPD’s watchdog group substantiated several charges against the two officers who shot and killed 19-year-old Win Rozario inside his family’s Queens home last year as he experienced an alleged mental health crisis.
Read MoreNearly 30 people recently told a federal judge that they want to be put in charge of the troubled jail complex and be appointed “remediation manager,” according to a recent report from the judge’s federal monitor, Steve J. Martin.
Read MoreA Queens woman’s grieving family is demanding a change to state law so that their relative’s accused killer can no longer control her estate.
Read MoreWith the city lagging years behind its legally-mandated 2027 deadline to shutter Rikers Island, the City Council on Wednesday passed a suite of bills that they say will at least help get the effort to close the notorious jail complex back on track.
Read MoreThe committee tasked with making a recommendation on the fate of Steve Cohen’s Metropolitan Park casino plan to the state’s Gaming Commission held its first public hearing on Tuesday, as the downstate casino bidding process reaches the home stretch.
Read MorePublic defense attorneys alleged on Tuesday that the Department of Correction consistently violates the rights of detainees by making it difficult for them to meet with their lawyers while being held on Rikers Island.
Read MoreA pair of South Queens councilmembers said on Tuesday during a City Council hearing that they want more out of the city’s massive plan to rezone Downtown Jamaica.
Read MoreIn less than a year, North American and New York City will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and Queens, arguably the epicenter of the “world’s game” in the United States, is looking for a piece of the action.
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