The City Council on Monday passed a bill that they say will bring transparency to the way the city’s Department of Correction announces and shares information about detainee deaths.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo re-kicked off his campaign for mayor on Monday, breaking his month-long silence after being handily defeated in the primary election last month.

The largest public defender strike the city has seen in 30 years may start sooner than later, as a small group of legal services attorneys went on strike last week and as unions representing thousands of attorneys issued impending strike deadlines.

60-year-old Wiliam Blount, who struck a health department with a hammer in her head over a dozen times in the Queens Plaza subway station in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years to life.

The Adams administration has to start enforcing a law the City Council passed in 2023 that expanded a key city rental assistance program, an appellate court ruled on Thursday.

Kristen Dubowski-Barba was officially installed as QCBA’s newest president last month, bringing with her a long career serving indigent and vulnerable populations throughout Queens and Brooklyn.

The Peoples’ House of Queens got a much-needed makeover with the completion of a newly renovated plaza outside of its Queens Boulevard entrance.

A 51-year-old detainee died at Bellevue Hospital while in the custody of the Department of Correction on Wednesday.

The local committees charged with reviewing bids from each of the developers hoping to snag one of the three downstate casino licenses up for grabs began to be formed this week, including the committees set to evaluate the two separate casino bids in Queens.

Two City Council races appeared to come to an end on Tuesday after the Board of Elections released its latest vote count for the primary election that unfolded on June 24.

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.

“Those most impacted by incarceration must help shape the system that determines freedom.”

“We don’t have to wait or wonder what this abundant future might look like. As the president and CEO of New York City Economic Development Corporation, I invite you to take the 7 train to Willets Point, Queens.”

“We all share responsibility for reducing waste and protecting the Earth. But how we do that matters deeply. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, an alternative proposal, takes a one-size-fits-all approach that could harm low-income New Yorkers by raising the cost of essential goods.”

“New York’s rocky overhaul of its Medicaid consumer directed home care program puts 280,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers at risk. It also risks the health coverage of 400,000 workers.”