John Surico, a journalist and activist, has been tapped to herald the QueensWay project into the future. He is the first ...

Defendants found unfit to stand trial can spend upwards of six months waiting on Rikers Island for a bed in an upstate ...

A judge this week ordered the city to temporarily halt overnight construction of its borough-based jail in Chinatown, ...

Former Queens City Councilmember Eric Ulrich used his influence in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to score his co-defendant’s daughter a high-paying job in the Department of Correction, recorded ...

Around half of the candidates running for a judicial position in Queens got the thumbs up from a pair of local bar associations, which aim to give voters insight into whether candidates have the ...

Days before Queens voters began casting ballots in this year’s general election, the City Council passed two pieces of legislation that aim to make it easier for detainees on Rikers Island to cast ...

After years of headaches brought on by incessant bumper-to-bumper traffic, Queens residents may be able to look forward to smoother rides on the long-troubled and construction-plagued Van Wyck ...

Queens voters turned out for the first two days of early voting in this year’s midterm elections in numbers that trounced recent years. According to the Board of Elections, 40,281 Queens residents ...