Nearly two years after a social worker first alleged that correctional officers on Rikers Island regularly locked up detainees suffering from mental health issues for weeks or months at a time – ...

President Donald Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday they have agreed to move an ambitious plan to build 12,000 homes in Queens at Sunnyside Yard to a “new level.” ...

The 20-year-old’s death comes around a month after 36-year-old Christopher Rodriguez died after experiencing medical distress ...

The state is continuing to move ahead with its plan to build a 14-mile light rail connecting Queens and Brooklyn, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced this week that it was making ...

Queens officials in Jackson Heights want the city to fix longstanding dangerous road conditions along busy Northern Boulevard ...

The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease was discovered at a Forest Hills police station earlier this month, though the ...

Three new schools are set to welcome Western Queens students this week – but local education advocates say they’ll only make a marginal difference in addressing overcrowding in the borough’s schools.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, New York City released tens of thousands of pages of documents confirming previous city officials were aware of the potential health hazards first re ...

The city has yet to propose a new deadline to close Rikers Island’s dangerous jail complex, despite admitting that hitting the current legally mandated August 2027 deadline is all but impossible. But ...

Governor Kathy Hochul declined to commute the sentence of any of the more than 1,000 people in New York’s prisons who applied for clemency when she granted half a dozen pardons on Friday, angering ...

Queens’ streets were deluged with flood water twice in the last week – an increasingly common problem for borough residents as severe rainstorms become more frequent. On Thursday of last week, and ...

Even after federal immigration officials said they had finished large-scale sweeps across the city, reports of federal agents conducting arrests near a Woodside playground continued to pour in ...