A bill introduced by a Queens assemblymember that would create a reentry program for New York’s prisoners to prepare them for their eventual release began making its way through the state legislature on Wednesday.
Read MoreCivil legal services for New Yorkers could be severely reduced in the coming years if the governor does not increase the spending authority for a public fund that keeps legal nonprofits afloat, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreA man was arrested for an alleged antisemitic attack on a Queens rabbi in Forest Hills on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis” that rivals the Great Recession, blaming his predecessor for four years of shoddy budgeting practices that has left the city with a bleak financial outlook.
Read MoreMayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed Sharun Goodwin to lead the city’s Department of Probation, which has been led by controversial Commissioner Juanita Holmes for the past three years.
Read MoreTwo Queens representatives took heat this week for votes that appeared to support Immigration Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has come under fire after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in the past month.
Read MoreAfter more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail system from City Hall, appointing a former CIA agent and correctional expert to assume sweeping authority over Rikers Island and the Department of Correction.
Read MoreA man who cops claimed was emotionally disturbed was shot by NYPD officers in Briarwood on Monday.
Read MoreThe World’s Borough was battered by an intense snowstorm along with much of the country over the weekend, leaving locals to dig themselves out of the mounds of powder and slush on Monday.
Read MoreMoney is already pouring into campaign coffers despite there being more than six months before most Queens voters head to the polls for the June primaries.
Read MoreJail watchdogs found that correctional officers and medical staff on Rikers Island abandoned their posts and failed to check in on suicidal detainees in the lead up to a number of deaths in the dangerous jail complex last year.
Read MoreA Queens couple is suing a child care center for allowing the abuse of their son to go on for years.
Read MoreA former elected official from Queens is running for office once again – but not in his longtime home.
Read MoreA&E Real Estate, a notorious landlord that recently entered a $2 million dollar settlement with the city and has several buildings in Queens, topped the public advocate’s list of the worst landlords in the city.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the former executive director of Queens Defenders, appeared prepared on Tuesday to plead guilty to federal fraud charges – until she suddenly wasn’t.
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