GOP Councilmembers Reintroduce Looter Legislation
The three Republican members of the City Council last week reintroduced legislation that would create civil penalties for looters and fraudsters during a local state of…
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Participatory Budget Committee Meets with Ulrich Fiscal Chief
Members of the Participatory Budgeting Committee last Thursday evening met with Gregory Mitchell, City Councilman Eric Ulrich’s (R-Ozone Park) budget director, to review ideas submitted…
Number of Guns Detected at Borough Airport Checkpoints Dipped in 2014
While the national numbers saw a significant increase, the amount of firearms detected last year by Transportation Security Administration staff at borough airports actually dropped…
MTA Board Approves Fare and Toll Hike
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board last Thursday voted to increase fares and tolls by 4 percent over the next two years, with the hike scheduled…
Delivery Driver Car Jacked, Pistol Whipped in Howard Beach
Cops this week were still hunting an unknown assailant who pistol whipped, robbed and carjacked a an area diner’s delivery driver last Friday night on…
Gov. Cuomo Details Ambitious Empire State ‘Opportunity Agenda’
Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week outlined his sweeping “2015 Opportunity Agenda” in Albany. Delivered at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Cuomo said his ambitious…
Editorial: Snowpocalypse Forecasts End with a Flurry
It’s hard to believe in the weather. Or rather, the weather reports, which are so important to so many people, and which have become so…
Even with Aid from FEMA Program, Dramatic Drop in Flood Insurance Rates Extremely Unlikely: City
Responding to a report in last week’s Forum detailing a federal program that could help reduce flood insurance rates in affected areas of the city,…
Assembly Leadership in Limbo After Silver Cuffed in Corruption Probe
As the smoke began to dissipate this week in the state Legislature, Assembly Democrats—those still standing, at least—were left with the gargantuan tasks of removing…
Focus on Families Shapes Katz’s First State of the Borough Address
If it’s good for our families, it’s good for Queens. It’s not only the motto at Borough Hall, according to Borough President Melinda Katz, but…
Borough Dodges Blizzard Bullet
Most of the borough this week was spared Mother Nature’s wintry wrath as a blizzard once projected to dump feet of snow on the city…
Baldeo Sentencing Delayed by ‘Continued Self-Hospitalization’
Albert Baldeo, the Ozone Park attorney, activist and candidate for public office who was convicted in August of seven counts of obstructing justice in a…
Flushing: Your Chinatown in Queens
Since the early 80’s, when the New York Times labeled Flushing “the new Chinatown,” the Korean population of Flushing has increased and a plethora of…
Editorial: When Moore is Less
On the heels of the Oscar nominations and the various controversies that came out of those announcements, it wasn’t altogether surprising that a movie like…
Brooklyn Man Charged in Brutal Bayside Push-in Robbery
A Brooklyn man last week was ordered held without bail on burglary, robbery and assault charges in an April 2014 home invasion that left an…