Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden made a trip to Queens to pledge the federal government’s support in addressing flooding issues in the borough, where nearly a dozen people died in flooded basements during Hurricane Ida.
Read MoreThe city reached a major milestone last week in Willets Point when it completed construction of the structures of the first two buildings that will one day anchor the new neighborhood in Queens.
Read MoreThe most diverse county in the nation is in a difficult spot in the age of a second Trump administration, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said during his annual State of the Borough address on Friday.
Read MoreConcert-goers and Forest Hills Stadium are celebrating after the city cleared the way for the show to go on at the Queens venue after a denied permit amid an ongoing local dispute threatened to derail the summer concert season. But how long that greenlight will stay up remains to be seen.
Read MoreThe MTA on Monday said that after years of starts and stops, drafts, final drafts, do-overs and approved plans, it finally has set a date for the implementation of its overhaul of Queens’ bus map.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards wants the city to get the Forest Hills Stadium concert season back on track after a permitting decision made by the NYPD last week cast it into doubt.
Read MoreIt has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number of health officials recognized the life-saving work of doctors and nurses at the “epicenter of the epicenter”
Read MoreFor about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a whole has been increasingly finding itself in.
Read MoreIt’s been five years this week since the first confirmed case of coronavirus was reported in Queens, which would soon become the epicenter of the pandemic that has since killed at least 1.2 million people in the U.S.
Read MoreAn interim deal has been reached between the Parks Department and a Black led nonprofit at Roy Wilkins Park that will allow the organization more freedom with programming and events within the Southeast Queens open space.
Read MoreQueens bus riders will soon see the MTA’s long-awaited bus route redesign take effect, over half a decade after the transit agency first began redrawing the public transit network in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreNew York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s $8 billion plan to bring a casino to Citi Field’s parking lot will head to the City Council for a vote after the City Planning Commission gave the project their stamp of approval last week.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed on Thursday reigning in New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a set of “political sanctions,” stopping short of removing him from office – for now.
Read MoreThe Department of Transportation on Wednesday yanked its approval of New York’s congestion pricing program, putting the future of the controversial toll into extreme doubt.
Read MoreThe massive migrant shelter on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in Eastern Queens will close in the coming weeks, state officials announced last week.
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