For the couple hundred people who live next door, or across the street, or down the block from him, Zohran Mamdani’s victory hits close to home. In two months, the most powerful person in New York City will know exactly what life is like for the small group of Queens residents who live alongside him every day.
Queens elected three new representatives to the City Council on Tuesday, while also sending all Council incumbents on the ballot back to the legislature for another four years.
Zohran Mamdani’s unprecedented rise from Western Queens assemblymember to national political figure reached a new peak Tuesday night, when he was elected mayor of New York City in an election that drew a historic number of voters.
Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo may both have unprecedented ties to the World’s Borough, but there was no love lost between their respective supporters in Queens as voters cast their ballots in the mayoral race in massive numbers on Tuesday.
Since Queens became a part of New York City in 1898, none of the 23 men who served as the city’s mayor were born in Queens or represented the borough in political office. On Election Day, that is likely to change.
New York’s Right to Counsel program saw some improvement in 2025 after struggling for years, but is still performing well below expectations as incoming federal cuts spread anxiety about the program’s future.
Queens News
Members of a community advisory committee created to weigh in on the plan to redevelop the Creedmoor campus in Eastern Queens were left out of discussions that resulted in the slashing of units associated in the project.
For the couple hundred people who live next door, or across the street, or down the block from him, Zohran Mamdani’s victory hits close to home. In two months, the most powerful person in New York City will know exactly what life is like for the small group of Queens residents who live alongside him every day.
Queens elected three new representatives to the City Council on Tuesday, while also sending all Council incumbents on the ballot back to the legislature for another four years.
Zohran Mamdani’s unprecedented rise from Western Queens assemblymember to national political figure reached a new peak Tuesday night, when he was elected mayor of New York City in an election that drew a historic number of voters.
Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo may both have unprecedented ties to the World’s Borough, but there was no love lost between their respective supporters in Queens as voters cast their ballots in the mayoral race in massive numbers on Tuesday.
Since Queens became a part of New York City in 1898, none of the 23 men who served as the city’s mayor were born in Queens or represented the borough in political office. On Election Day, that is likely to change.
New York’s Right to Counsel program saw some improvement in 2025 after struggling for years, but is still performing well below expectations as incoming federal cuts spread anxiety about the program’s future.
A Queens man managed to avoid a felony conviction after a jury found him not guilty for the death of a three-year-old boy on Friday.
The notorious floating jail complex off Rikers Island known as “The Boat” is being moved south to be turned into scrap metal.
A 57-year-old home health aide, is suing her landlord, Zara Realty, for “using the courts as a weapon, “ as well the landlord’s attorneys for rubber-stamping lawsuits against her.
Voices from Queens
“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.

Members of a community advisory committee created to weigh in on the plan to redevelop the Creedmoor campus in Eastern Queens were left out of discussions that resulted in the slashing of units associated in the project.