In an effort to address the drowning issues that have plagued her community for years, Rockaway Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers has introduced legislation that requires the city to establish an annual report on drowning incidents.
Read MoreEastern Queens State Assemblymember Daniel Rosenthal announced last month that after six-years in office he would be resigning to take a new nonprofit job. On Friday, his resignation became official. He spoke with the Eagle during his last week in office
Read MoreA federal judge ruled this week that the city must pay nearly $143 million to over 40,000 people who were held in a city jail longer than they should have after having posted bail.
Read MoreThe City Council took a rare step on Thursday and voted to override the mayor’s veto of a package of housing bills recently passed by the legislative body.
Read MoreThe redevelopment of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus is still in its infancy and it will be years before shovels go in the ground. However, pushback over potential plans to bring affordable housing to the 55-acre campus has already begun.
An appeals court ordered the state’s failed redistricting commission to redraw the state’s congressional maps on Thursday, ruling that the maps used for the 2022 election not be used again in the future.
Read MoreThe city is looking for feedback from New Yorkers about how it should proceed with its plan to redevelop Downtown Jamaica.
Read MoreWith Fiscal Year 2024 now underway, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is celebrating funding allocated to Queens parks and libraries by his office in the previous year.
Read MoreSmoke from Canadian wildfires fell over the city, which gave the majority of the five boroughs, including Queens, a hazy, orange tint, and brought the worst air quality the city has seen since the metric began being recorded. To members of the New York City Council, just as confounding as the color of the skies was the Adams administration’s response to the emergency. And so, on Wednesday, city councilmembers grilled agency heads on the city’s response to the unprecedented event.
Read MoreScaffolding is a daily fixture in the lives of most New Yorkers – but nowhere is that more true than at the Queens Supreme Courthouse in Downtown Jamaica.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul took steps to protect New Yorkers against hate crimes this week, allocating $51 million of state funds into safety and security, and also signed a bill from a number of Queens electeds into law.
Read MoreAs a result of a recently passed bill signed into law by the governor, over a dozen senior judges throughout New York State will soon be repaid for a multi-month period in 2022 in which they were temporarily laid off.
Read MoreÉmilia Decaudin, a 24-year-old democratic socialist who became one of the state’s first openly transgender district leaders in 2020, announced this week that she’s mounting a bid to unseat Juan Ardila in the Assembly.
Read MorePizza recently became a hotter topic than usual in New York after some believed that a new city edict aimed to help air quality would create a crackdown on the city staple, unfairly punishing pizza slingers and lovers alike. Now, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, who authored the bill as a councilmember in 2015, is looking to clear the air.
Read MoreThomas Abreu, a 25-year-old from Brooklyn, shot four people – one in Brooklyn and three in Queens – on Saturday, killing 87-year-old Hamod Ali Saeidi, who was out on a walk on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill.
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