With Donald Trump vowing mass deportations and Mayor Eric Adams meeting with the president-elect’s new “border czar,” Queens is poised to be the center of a fight over immigration.
Sex workers and activists in Queens say that the city and state’s plan to send more police onto Roosevelt Avenue to quell quality of life issues is both an overblown and potentially dangerous response.
Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the city would up its effort to cut down illegal vending, littering and sex trafficking on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue. But critics said the mayor’s dedication to cleaning up the notorious street in Western Queens sounded eerily familiar to his past efforts to cut back on crime on Roosevelt, leading some to wonder if the new plan will actually lead to any lasting change.
A handful of Queens organizations joined a total of 50 groups state-wide raising the call for voters to support a…
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A group of Queens leaders and transgender rights’ advocates have once urged state lawmakers to eliminate a prostitution-related loitering misdemeanor…
A statewide eviction moratorium ends Wednesday for tenants whose cases were adjudicated before the COVID-19 crisis, leaving roughly 14,000 New…
A new, 20,000-square-foot mural in Flushing Meadows Corona Park honors the courageous medical workers battling COVID-19 in the epicenter of…
The celebration at Neir’s Tavern lasted deep into the night Friday as patrons, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, toasted a…
Libraries will be an integral part of New York City’s 2020 U.S. census plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on…
