Queens Defenders, the World’s Borough’s largest public defender organization, is facing an uncertain future after the city ...

Paralegals, legal assistants and other support staffers at Queens Defenders have begun to unionize, an effort that began ...

The summer concert season at Queens Forest Hills Stadium was cast into doubt this week after the NYPD said they wouldn’t ...

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 ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

Conflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open ...

Mayor Eric Adams spent the first three years of his mayorality largely ignoring the city’s original plan to shutter Rikers Island’s jails and replace them with four borough-based jails by 2027. Now, ...

Several Queens candidates in crowded races for the mayor’s office and the City Council were approved for matching funds by the city’s Campaign Finance Board on Monday morning, while some also ...

The city this week rolled out its ambitious plan to redevelop a major section of Downtown Jamaica, two years after it first began exploring the idea of overhauling the area that has been plagued by ...

Eugene Kelty, Jr., a former firefighter who helped lead the evacuation of downtown Manhattan on 9/11 and who served as the longtime chair of Queens’ Community Board 7, died over the weekend after a ...

In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the ...