The City Council is considering striking the words “alien,” “illegal alien,” and “illegal immigrant” from the city books and replacing it with the more contrite... Read More...
Mayor Bill de Blasio has officially announced the date for the special election for the Queens Borough President Office on Thursday.
Councilmen Costa Constan... Read More...
To celebrate the growing Southeast Asian and Indo-Caribbean population in Queens, two thoroughfares were proposed for street co-namings for the Gurdwara and Pun... Read More...
Queens District Attorney-elect Melinda Katz presided over her last ribbon cutting as borough president for the new Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst ... Read More...
Airport workers at John F. Kennedy International Airport that were hired from Eulen America, an airline contractor, were let go last month and demanded their pe... Read More...
The city's Committee on Environmental Protection will hold an oversight hearing at the Council Chambers on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Manhattan, to gain clarity on... Read More...
Dermot Shea, a nearly 30-year NYPD veteran from Sunnyside, was sworn in as the 44th police commissioner at One Police Plaza on Monday.
Shea is taking over th... Read More...
Earlier this week, elected officials throughout Queens reached out to MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye and NYC Transit President Andy Byford about changes to a... Read More...
The Commission on Gender Equity kicked off 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence on Monday along with other city agencies for the global initiative ... Read More...
Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) was on the steps of City Hall on Thursday advocating for increased safety measures that would require residentia... Read More...
Over the weekend, U. S. Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed that the Department of Justice failed to implement a law that would give schools and after school programs i... Read More...
Gregg Bishop, the commissioner of the city's Small Business Services division, announced on Wednesday that the WE NYC program is now offering credit to women en... Read More...
