Jan 23, 2025 · The Queens Daily Eagle describes developments in the legal community, informs Queens residents of their rights and resources and provides a platform for borough-wide voices. Ultimately, we serve as a crucial guide to our borough’s legal system, a system that affects everyone who lives, works or visi

Nov 7, 2024 · Cassandra Johnson was elected by a wide margin to serve as the borough’s next Surrogate’s Court judge, a highly-regarded and sought after position atop one of the more powerful courts in the city.

Dec 18, 2024 · By Jacob Kaye. Toward the end of last year, Greg Mingo was feeling hopeful that hundreds of aging men and women in prisons across New York, some of whom he had met during his four decades behind bars, would soon have a real shot at getting released.

Nov 20, 2024 · By Ryan Schwach. Some members of the City Council are still hanging onto hope that the city will decide to resurrect an old train line that they believe would change South Queens locals’ lives for the better, rather than build a park along the elevated tracks.

Jan 14, 2025 · Queens officials want the city to slow down construction of a linear park on an old elevated train line in the borough that could potentially stop the line from being reactivated for transit. In a letter addressed to the mayor, a quartet of Southeast Queens elected officials said they want the city ...

Oct 4, 2024 · Queens’ waterfront will one day be connected from Long Island City to Fort Totten in Whitestone, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.

Sep 20, 2024 · The city's Department of Transportation said this week that the opening of the pedestrian-only lane on the Queensboro Bridge will again be delayed, a month after they told the Eagle that "no changes to the timeline" of the project had been made.

Jan 10, 2024 · On Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul delivered her 2024 State of the State address, discussing issues like affordability, housing and mental health. Her wider goals, outlined in a 180-page document, included a handful of plans that are specific to …

May 30, 2024 · By Jacob Kaye. Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election.

Sep 8, 2023 · Nearly a year after the mayor announced that his administration was choosing to build a park over a 3.5 mile strip of abandoned rail that cuts through Central and South Queens, a group of supporters hoping to revive the rail line rallied at City Hall on Wednesday.