Mayor returns to Queens to unveil budget proposal
/
New York City Mayor Eric Adams returned to his alma mater in Queens on Thursday to unveil the final budget proposal of his term.
Read More
Cuomo and Speaker Adams backed by split Southeast Queens coalition
/
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
Read More‘Unsustainable’: QPL head warns that cuts could bring further woes to Queens’ libraries
/
Double the wait times to check out books, over 100,000 potential Sunday visits lost and dozens of early closures or delayed openings – Queens' public libraries are in dire straits after struggling through several months of budget cuts, officials said on Tuesday during a City Council budget hearing.
Read MoreJail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract
/
The city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.
Read MoreCouncil rails against Adams’ budget cuts
/
The New York City Council is pushing back on Mayor Eric Adams’ recent budget cuts to libraries, education, police and other agencies, arguing that their own projections show that new revenue can stave off the cuts.
Read MoreDonovan Richards is the right leader to take on the climate crisis
/
By Councilmember Justin Brannan
Read MoreA dozen Queens pols call for CNN to host climate town hall in the borough
/
Queens is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather because the borough contains such a large amount of coastline.
Read More
