Mar. 31, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The progressive New York Working Families Party (WFP) endorsed a slate of four candidates over the weekend in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race, hoping that voters would rank all of them while shutting out Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams. But can the party’s strategy, which seeks to take advantage…
Mar. 31, 2025 By Ramy Mahmoud and QNS News Team Despite being three weeks after the official date, Bayside’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade this past weekend brought the community together to celebrate Irish culture, with lively festivities and a large turnout. The parade, which was held on Saturday, March 30, marked its annual return,…
Mar. 31, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon NYC is preparing for its state-approved expansion of red light cameras this year. Officials said on Monday they will continue to use their current vendor to manage the city’s extensive automated traffic enforcement program. Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced that…
Mar. 27, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Democrats running to replace Eric Adams in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race pitched on Thursday their plans to combat President Trump’s threats to cut billions in federal funding for the city, which supports a wide range of vital programs. Queens State Sen. Jessica Ramos, in a rare Thursday…
Mar. 26, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The City Council approved a legislative package Wednesday afternoon to reduce the number of scaffolding structures on New York City streets. The package of five bills takes aim at the temporary steel and wooden scaffolding structures – known as scaffolding sheds – that line and darken thousands of…
Mar. 26, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller A conservative city lawmaker-led group filed a lawsuit on Tuesday night seeking to block Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes plan — a seismic overhaul of city zoning regulations aimed at building more housing across the five boroughs. In the suit, filed on Staten Island in Richmond County…
Mar. 26, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Community Education Council 26 (CEC 26) has approved a resolution urging the city to site a specialized high school at a school currently under construction on 88th Avenue in Jamaica in order to address a major shortfall of specialized schools in the borough. CEC 26 noted that Queens…
Mar. 24, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams insisted on Monday that despite having a barely visible re-election bid in the 2025 NYC Mayor’s race, he is unofficially campaigning for another four years at City Hall through primarily official public events. Hizzoner bristled at suggestions from reporters at his March 24 press conference…
Mar. 24, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller A City Council analysis of data that Mayor Eric Adams’ office released on its policy to involuntarily hospitalize those in apparent severe mental health crisis found that the practice is not working as intended and disproportionately impacts Black New Yorkers. The council’s findings, unveiled ahead of its Health Committee’s…
Mar. 24, 2025 By Colum Motherway Council Member Robert Holden praised a March 20 decision by the New York State Court of Appeals striking down New York City’s plan to let noncitizens vote in local elections. The Court’s 6-1 decision firmly rejected the City’s 2022 law, which had aimed to grant voting rights to…