Concert-goers and Forest Hills Stadium are celebrating after the city cleared the way for the show to go on at the Queens venue after a denied permit amid an ongoing local dispute threatened to derail the summer concert season. But how long that greenlight will stay up remains to be seen.
Read MoreFor weeks, dozens of candidates in Queens have hit the streets to ask voters not for their support, cash or vote – but for their name, address and signature.
Read MoreDetainees on Rikers Island have continued to struggle to get access to the jail complex’s law libraries, a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight body found.
Read MorePedestrians and cyclists alike are getting tired of the delays to the plan to open a new pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge.
Read MoreSeveral residents of the South Jamaica Houses in Queens say that their names and signatures were forged on a ballot petition sheet collected by a canvasser on behalf of a group of local and citywide candidates attempting to get on the ballot for the upcoming June primary election.
Read MoreAnother round of federal cuts from the Trump administration are threatening projects meant to mitigate one of Queens’ most notable issues – flooding.
Read MoreThe Adams administration said late Tuesday that they will soon allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move critics say could violate New York City’s sanctuary city laws.
Read MoreThough a number of major questions remain about the city’s early efforts to bring a long-desired level one trauma hospital to the Rockaway peninsula, the city recently checked off a big to-do off their list – figuring out where it will be built.
Read MoreWhile funding for the ambitious Interborough Borough Express is still in limbo, the MTA is going full throttle on the proposed Brooklyn-Queens connector.
Read MoreWhen the Department of Transportation last week announced a new pilot program to address illegal truck parking, a group of elected officials in Southeast Queens were not only shocked to hear that their neighborhoods weren’t included in the program, but that there was even a pilot in the works at all.
Read MoreA Queens-led coalition of lawmakers and civic groups on Wednesday sued Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to stop the implementation of the City of Yes, the city’s largest zoning overhaul in decades which stands to serve as a major marker of Adams’ time in office, should it stand.
Read MoreThe summer concert season at Queens Forest Hills Stadium was cast into doubt this week after the NYPD said they wouldn’t issue permits or police the streets around the controversial music venue this year.
Read MoreFormer 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 MoreConflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.
Read MoreSupporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.
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