A coalition of activists sued the Department of City Planning in June in an effort to halt the Special Flushing Waterfront District development, but the plan was approved by the City Council in December anyway.
Now, the activists are adding the Council to its lawsuit.
Two young people from Queens were killed and two more injured in a late-night crash last weekend on the Northern State Parkway in Suffolk County.Husein Radoncic, 26 of Astoria, and former Queens resident Sasha Stopanjac, 22, of Liberty, NY, w…
Starbucks is planning to come to Whitestone whether the neighborhood likes it or not — and many don’t.“Small businesses are what we’re all about and we always want to show unity and support for all of our businesses. Not to take away from Sta…
Hailing Chen immigrated to Queens from China when he was 14 years old. He learned English from near-scratch, worked as a busboy throughout school and ultimately graduated from St. John’s University. Yet, he found it incredibly difficult to fi…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board has approved a set of toll hikes amounting to just over 7 percent on average at nine bridge and tunnel crossings.The hikes, approved in a meeting on Thursday, will go into effect on April 1.
City officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are asking residents to avoid unnecessary travel through Friday because of a storm that is forecast to drop between 4 and 9 inches of snow by Friday evening.
Jaslin Kaur is on a mission to make politics accessible to all, especially for the city’s most vulnerable populations.The 24-year-old District 23 City Council candidate became well acquainted with the inequities many face in the borough throu…
After years of complaints, many revolving around reckless driving, the Stop & Shop parking lot at Atlantic Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard in Ozone Park is getting a set of gates to prevent cars from entering at night.Regency Centers, the …
A stretch of 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights last spring became the first section of roadway in a part of Queens hard hit by the Covid pandemic to be closed to most motor vehicle traffic.And unlike some corridors in the Open Streets program, w…
Community Board 11 members are opposed to the incoming Douglaston women’s homeless shelter, but not necessarily for the reasons one might think.“What these women need is a place with food, shelter and access to the subway where they can have …
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