A group of community organizations in Long Island City are joining the local councilmember in calling on the city to turn 8.5 acres of city-owned land into new open space as part of the massive OneLIC neighborhood plan.

The New York State Legislature passed a package of prison reforms on the last day of the legislative session, sending the bills to the governor’s desk. However, the governor has not indicated if she plans to support the package or not.

Despite the rain pouring down on the five boroughs on Saturday, thousands citywide and in Queens went out to the polls to cast their vote on the first day of early voting.

An attorney with the controversy-embroiled Queens Defenders was busted for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-soaked paper into a Rikers Island facility on Wednesday.

Appellate service providers rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday demanding the city fund their office and bring a wage increase for attorneys as a mass strike of public defenders threatens to throw the court system into disarray.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is suing New York State over a law that protects migrants from being arrested when they go to routine proceedings in state courthouses. The move was made at the same time Governor Kathy Hochul was testifying before congress on the issue of immigration.

The city this week launched a new effort to discourage kids from subway surfing, a deadly phenomenon that’s been particularly prevalent in Queens.

Lori Zeno, the former head of Queens Defenders, allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization she founded to fund luxury vacations, a teeth-whitening procedure and other personal expenses, prosecutors said this week.

A popular bill that would remove the population limit on new judicial seats appears unlikely to make it through the state legislature this year, but lawmakers say their plan to make a drastic change to the state’s constitution is very much alive.

The man who shot two police officers in East Elmhurst just over a year ago was sentenced to nearly three decades in prison by a Queens judge on Tuesday.

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.”