Queens NY

Letitia James issued a consumer alert Friday, reminding residents that retail stores and food businesses...

The New York Working Families Party’s state officers voted not to endorse Chuck Park’s Democratic primary challenge against Rep. Grace Meng on Thursday, two people familiar with the process told City & State. It’s a rare example of WFP’s leadership acting against the recommendations of both a local WFP chapter and...

More than 31,000 impaired driving arrests were made across the state in 2024, highlighting the continued prevalence of drunk driving, according to the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research. The ITSMR also found that of the over 3,400 crashes involving an impaired driver in New York State, 15 percent...

The state has contracted with the Center for Gun Violence Prevention team at Northwell Health to begin a pilot program that screens for firearm access and risk in ER settings. — ALBANY | Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced the launch of a first-in-the-nation pilot program to integrate firearm access and injury risk...

NEW YORK — New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new pilot program that will add firearm access and injury risk screenings to emergency department visits, aiming to prevent violence before it happens. The $1.5 million investment from the New York State Office of Gun Violence Prevention will expand...

For the second time this week, there was a $1 million dollar Powerball winner in New York State.

Crown Heights history is at risk. New York State politicians are pushing to demolish the historic Kingsbrook Synagogue — one of the oldest Shuls in Crown Heights — and replace it with yet another homeless shelter. The elected officials are funding ‘One Brooklyn Health’, which oversees Kingsbrook Jewish...

Assembly Member Claire Valdez has joined several elected officials to sign an open letter calling on Con Edison to “stop hindering the development” of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in New York City, with critics claiming that the energy company has made it “prohibitively expensive” to connect systems to New...

Subway ridership still trails pre-COVID pandemic levels — by a whopping 25% — even as transit officials rush to credit congestion pricing for getting New Yorkers back on the public transportation system. A recent report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC), finds that New Yorkers took...

“Homeless and at-risk New Yorkers need a lifeline in the immediate term, and the governor must join the Assembly and the Senate in expanding the HAVP pilot to $250 million.”. The high cost of housing is a major driver of low-income New Yorkers’ economic precarity. In each year since 2022,...