May. 5, 2025 By Shane O’Brien To mark Earth Week, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) awarded climate action grants to 17 resident-led projects across the five boroughs, including three in Queens, that focus on sustainability, food justice and environmental education. The Queens initiatives, sponsored by Rise Light & Power, include two community…
May. 4, 2025 By Dean Moses Mayor Eric Adams revealed on Sunday that some 500 bodegas across the Big Apple will soon be equipped with panic buttons, although he won’t say which shops would receive them to keep crooks on their toes. Holding up a panic button outside the Bronx’s Pamela Green Deli, located…
May. 4, 2025 By Adam Daly & Barbara Russo-Lennon Overcast skies did not stop over 30,000 bicyclists from taking part in the country’s largest charitable bike tour on Sunday. With the sun hiding behind clouds at times throughout the day, cyclists of all skill levels from all over the world flooded NYC on May…
May. 4, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon More cyclists and pedestrians are out and about as the spring weather heats up in New York — but the risk of collisions is also increasing with more traffic on the streets. Case in point, on May 1, a cyclist was struck and killed after he rode into…
May. 4, 2025 By amNewYork The Trump administration is once again under fire for targeting the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), a lifeline for thousands of 9/11 responders and survivors. On May 2, President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired 16 additional medical staff at the National…
May. 4, 2025 By Claude Solnik More than 500 former residents, relatives, people with disabilities, advocates, officials and others marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of a document that led to the closure of the infamous Willowbrook State School and ushered in a new era. They gathered on Friday, May 2 at the…
May. 3, 2025 amNewYork New York City and seven other local governments across the country have sued President Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), accusing the federal agency of placing unconstitutional and coercive conditions on critical housing grants. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and led…
May. 2, 2025 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Queens Supreme Court on Friday for the 2022 murders of his girlfriend, her son, and her cousin. Travis Blake, 31, of 155th Street, was convicted by a jury last month of first-degree murder…
May. 2, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams on Friday accused the city Campaign Finance Board of “poisoning the atmosphere” by releasing a letter via Freedom of Information Law this week notifying him that it has reason to believe his 2021 mayoral campaign broke the law. Adams made the remarks over a series…
May. 2, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Hard Rock International Chairman and CEO Jim Allen addressed hundreds of Queens-based vendors and small business owners Thursday morning at the Queens Theatre, outlining how they could play a key role in shaping the proposed $8 billion Metropolitan Park casino and entertainment complex near Citi Field—if the project…