Mar. 21, 2025 By Colum Motherway

The New York State Senate has passed Senate Bill S.1194-A, a bill aimed at improving consumer protection and promoting transparency in utility pricing. 

Mar. 21, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Mayor Eric Adams has announced the start of the public review ULURP process for the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, an ambitious proposal to rezone a significant portion of Downtown Jamaica and deliver thousands of homes and thousands of jobs to an area that has faced decades of disinvestment.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Athena Dawson

As spring arrives, New York City residents are invited to take part in a seasonal tradition that supports urban greening and environmental awareness.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Dean Moses

A parolee who spent nearly two decades in prison for raping a young girl in Brooklyn was arrested in Queens Thursday on public lewdness and sex abuse charges.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) has launched a one-year Overnight Truck Parking Pilot, providing regulated, metered parking for commercial trucks in industrial business zones on 56^th Road from 43^rd Street to 49^th Street in Maspeth.

Forbes Travel Guide named LaGuardia Airport as the nation’s best airport in October based on a survey of 5,000 hospitality and travel experts and the guide’s most well-traveled fliers.

On Tuesday, Port Authority executive director Rick Cotton accepted the Verified Air Travel Award in the recently completed Terminal C. The award is the latest in a long list of accolades given to LaGuardia throughout the course of the airport’s $8 billion transformation project that began in 2016.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

President Trump’s executive order on Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut down the cabinet department she oversees drew immediate backlash from New York Congressional Democrats.

A second teenager was collared for the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy during an after-school brawl at a Sunnyside McDonald’s restaurant last month.

Members of the NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a 16-year-old boy in the confines of the 110th Precinct on Thursday morning and transported him to the 108th Precinct in Long Island City, where he was booked for the murder of Julian Corniell of 159th Street in South Jamaica on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 14.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Dean Moses

Mayor Eric Adams charged on Thursday that his administration has made massive strides in getting those living with homelessness out of the subway system, even as some critics say the impact has been minor.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

A law allowing hundreds of thousands of noncitizens living in New York City to vote in municipal elections was struck down on Thursday by the state’s highest court.

March 20, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

LaGuardia Community College has announced Jennifer Jensen, the former curator of the Jackie Robinson Museum, as its new archive director.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Assembly Member Steven Raga has helped secure $750 million in funding for the preservation of Mitchell-Lama housing in the New York State Legislature’s “One-House” state budget proposals.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Queens locals interested in exploring possible Irish heritage can enter a free DNA test competition. 

Police from the 106th Precinct in South Ozone Park are looking for a purse snatcher who targeted a 53-year-old woman who had just finished shopping at a C-Town Supermarket at 134-16 Liberty Ave. in South Richmond Hill during the afternoon of Saturday, March 15.

The victim was loading groceries into her vehicle in the parking lot when the perpetrator approached her from behind and allegedly grabbed her handbag, which contained cash and credit cards, before running off down Liberty Avenue. The victim was not injured during the encounter, an NYPD spokesman said Thursday. He could not say how much cash was in the victim’s bag.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Spanning Sunnyside Yards and connecting Skillman Avenue to Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, the 39th Street Bridge has long been an eyesore covered in graffiti.

Spanning Sunnyside Yards and connecting Skillman Avenue to Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, the 39th Street Bridge has long been an eyesore covered in graffiti.

Now, thanks to a partnership between Council Member Julie Won and District Council 9’s (DC 9) Bridge Painter Apprenticeship Program, the bridge has been given a fresh coat of paint. The project, completed on March 13, marks the start of an ongoing effort to keep the bridge clean and graffiti-free.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Athena Dawson

The United States Postal Service (USPS) held an unveiling ceremony for a stamp of the late civil rights icon, Hon. Constance Baker Motley. 

March 20, 2025 By Jessica Militello

With the arrival of the first day of spring, warmer temperatures and longer days offer the perfect excuse to enjoy outdoor dining across the borough.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Colum Motherway

Senator Joseph Addabbo partnered with Northwell LIJ Forest Hills (NLIJFH) to bring an interactive health and injury prevention event to AKAL Care Social Adult Day Care in Jamaica. 

Mar. 20, 2025 By Colum Motherway and Athena Dawson

New York City’s new trash bin laws, which mandate that all residential waste be placed in secure containers, have encountered a rocky start, filled with confusion, complaints and logistical hurdles. 

March 20, 2025 By Dean Moses

Detectives are on the hunt for the unhinged woman who assaulted a 7-year-old boy and threatened his mother with a knife in a Long Island City subway station last month.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) is expanding its Regional Slow Zones initiative to Queens, reducing speed limits to 20 miles per hour in Broad Channel as part of a broader citywide effort to enhance traffic safety.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

As the race for New York City Council District 21 heats up, Make the Road Action, a prominent advocacy organization for immigrant and working-class communities, has weighed in with a key endorsement.

March 20, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

The commercial real estate agency Lee and Associates NYC announced that a 12-year lease had been facilitated for a dentist’s office in the South Tower of the Gotham Point mixed-use development in the Hunter’s Point South section of Long Island City.

A high-ranking member of the Queens-based “Black Rain” drug crew was sentenced Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court to thirty years in prison for his role in three cold-case murders across south Queens.

In August, Jerome “Sha” Jones, 60, of West Virginia, pleaded guilty to murder while engaged in narcotics trafficking for his role in the 1991 murder of Oscar Flow in Springfield Gardens.