The 2024 election for Queens’ Assembly seats may be a ways away – but that hasn’t stopped a number of incumbents and challengers from starting up their campaign efforts. Recent filings with the state’s Board of Elections show a number of potentially interesting Assembly races slated for next year in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreNew York State has a “dire need” for more trial court judges, according to a recently released report from the New York City Bar Association. In the report, which was released earlier this month, the city bar association calls on the New York State legislature to work toward repealing the state’s constitutionally prescribed cap on the number of judges that can be elected to the state’s Supreme Courts.
Just over 22-years ago, nearly two dozen firefighters from Maspeth’s Squad 288 and HazMat 1 firehouse were killed after they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, marking the largest loss of life from any single firehouse that day. Now, local officials are trying to get the century-old building where they served designated as a city landmark in their honor.
Read MoreThe New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America officially endorsed Claire Valdez in next year’s race for Assembly District 37 this weekend, potentially setting up a two-way race between the union organizer and embattled legislator Juan Ardila, who has yet to announce his bid for reelection.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams and the NYPD unveiled a new subway-patrolling robot on Friday, which, despite recent criticism of crime fighting bots, Adams hopes will get a warm reception from New Yorkers.
Stanley Richards, who several years ago became the first formerly incarcerated man to serve as a top executive in the city’s Department of Correction, was this week named the next president and CEO of the Fortune Society.
Read MoreThe Adams administration was grilled by the City Council over its contracting practices during the ongoing migrant crisis on Thursday, which comes as one of the companies contracted to provide city services to asylum seekers comes under major scrutiny.
Read MoreHours after Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Queens State Senator Michael Gianairis’ legislation to make early voting by mail a universal option available to New Yorkers, a group of Republicans and conservatives asked a court to put an end to the law before it can even be enacted.
Read MoreAfter a lower appellate court ordered state congressional district lines to be redrawn, the state’s highest court has ordered a stay until they make their own ruling.
Read MoreThe governor was in Queens on Tuesday to announce the start of construction of a major clean energy project that will begin in Canada and end in Astoria.
Read MoreAn injunction has been filed by Queens and Brooklyn electeds and residents against a planned migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in South Brooklyn.
Read MoreAs the ongoing migrant crisis in New York City intensifies with no signs of slowing down, as has the rift between various sects of city electeds with different strategies for fighting it, splintering Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of a united front.
Earlier this month, the Eagle attended a ride along with the Sheriff’s Department, and got an inside look at the joint operation to investigate smoke shops in Queens.
Read MoreFormer Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich, who also served for several months as a special advisor to the mayor and as the city’s Building’s Commissioner, accepted or solicited $150,000 in bribes over the course of several years and spanning several public offices, prosecutors alleged on Wednesday.
Read MoreDespite new DNA evidence that led to a group of judges ruling he had been wrongfully convicted of his estranged wife’s murder, Michael Robinson will be retried in the 30-year-old case, Queens prosecutors decided this week.
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