City is No Home for Styrofoam
It seems that in just over a year in the big chair at City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio has become familiar with the give…
It seems that in just over a year in the big chair at City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio has become familiar with the give…
Mayor Bill de Blasio, joined by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, other elected officials and civic leaders on a damp, overcast Monday morning in Flushing,…
Mayor Bill de Blasio this week proposed a major reform of the city’s corporate tax structure, modernizing what he called an “outdated system,” providing tax…
Port Authority representatives on Monday visited the Borough Board in the second-floor conference room at Borough Hall to detail Cross Harbor Freight Program options and…
The other side of sports, the seedy underbelly pockmarked with athletes behaving badly, dominated the narrative of the kickoff of the National Football League’s 2014…
With the arrival of the third allocation of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funds—a little more than $994 million—the Mayor’s Office of Recovery…
Passionate pro-police, anti-administration prose delivered on the steps outside Borough Hall briefly heated up a bitterly cold Tuesday afternoon as activists, union and civic leaders,…
In the wake of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson’s recent bust of a major gun smuggling ring, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer will this week call…
Rotary club members of Queens and Brooklyn, nonprofit leaders, government representatives and elected officials on Tuesday evening gathered for dinner at Prima Pasta Cafe in…
In October 2012, residents evacuating Superstorm Sandy were directed by emergency personnel to one area, while signs clearly indicated another. Confusion ensued. Those evacuation signs…
Mayor Bill de Blasio last week reappointed seven judges—four of whom reside in Queens—to the city’s civil, criminal and family courts. De Blasio reappointed three…
On the last day of 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted pardons to two men, one of whom calls Queens home, after each “contributed positively to…
Mario Cuomo, a boy from Briarwood who went on to become the 52nd governor of New York, died of natural causes due to heart failure…
It has unquestionably been a difficult few weeks for the rank and file of the city Police Department. On Dec. 20, two officers were gunned…
In an effort to memorialize two slain city police officers and show continued support for the NYPD, the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder…