managing editor of the @QueensEagle. jacobk@queenspublicmedia.com.
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A group of disabled transit riders and accessibility advocates want the MTA to push the reservation deadline for its Access-a-Ride paratransit service several hours back, from 5 p.m. until 11:59 p.m., the night before the day of their scheduled trip.
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The existence of "deadlocking" mentally ill detainees on Rikers Island continued to be debated during a City Council hearing today.
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“I’m a realist. I am not about chasing clouds. This isn’t ‘I want to talk to my boy Donny on a sidechat about $20 billion.’”
Councilmember @juliej_won on Sunnyside Yards and the "new level" of conversation between the Trump admin and City Hall
Mamdani and Trump advance plan for 'new neighborhood' above Sunnyside Yard in Queens
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Mamdani supported Orkin throughout his primary run against Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar without ever formally granting endorsement, as @petersterne reported. Kind of funny to do that now, as he faces underfunded Republican opposition in a safe blue Queens district.
I am proud to endorse David Orkin for Assembly District 38. David will be a tireless champion for our affordability agenda in Albany. We’re 46 days out from Election Day; will you help us get out the vote?
Election Day is November 3. Early Voting begins on October 24th and runs through November 1st.
Canvass with us 📋 act.david4queens.com/map
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Last year, @Documentedny visited a playground in Queens where day laborers expressed fear about the incoming Trump administration.
Those fears came to a head on Sep. 1, when ICE raided the playground and arrested eight.
New form me.
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Mayor Mamdani will roll out a new 10-year Vision Zero plan today that pledges to expand the use of Sammy’s Law to entire neighborhood, stand up a super speeders program and explore pedestrian only or pedestrian priority districts.
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A first for Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards – getting seriously criticized by those leading Rikers' reform efforts.
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Check out the story here
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Today’s New York Playbook has the news on former Sen. Mike Gianaris’ new job politico.com/newsletters/new…
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In a scathing letter to a judge, Rikers' federal monitor says he has "grave concerns" that top DOC officials are "actively engaging in efforts to evade transparency and impede cooperation and collaboration" with the monitor and remediation manager.
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The monitor took particular issue with a message sent to top staffers on behalf of DOC Commish Stanley Richards – "No idea, strategy or work is to be communicated to the remediation manager, monitor or City Hall without [Richards] being briefed beforehand," it said.
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SCOOP: The City Council is drafting a bill to extend the deadline to close Rikers, which everyone has said can't be closed by August 2027.
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A man died in the city's new jail ward for detainees with serious medical needs in Bellevue Hospital today, marking the first death in the unit.
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A man in "medical distress" died while held at the new Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital today. He is the sixth person to die in Department of Correction custody this year.
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A powerful story on the complicated questions of clemency — thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/…
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At a Brooklyn Democratic Party convention last night, Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her group made a break for it out a side door, hiding under a blue tablecloth, only to realize it opened onto an enclosed patio.
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NEW: A people’s guide to the ‘Commie Corridor’ of Brooklyn and Queens
Lots of interesting tidbits along this tour with @MichaelLangeNYC
Like @unionGustavo’s lunch with an unlikely titan of business…
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The former head of Queens Defenders and her ex-husband were sentenced to prison after siphoning off over $656,000 from the nonprofit, “effectively destroying" the organization that once represented tens of thousands of low-income clients in Queens.
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Schneps reporters just won our union election in a landslide!!!!! I'm so incredibly proud of my colleagues who organized tirelessly for a year and a half for this!!! Ready to fight for a livable wage, affordable health insurance, and editorial integrity!!!!!
Schneps workers WON our union! After our NLRB election today!!
We’re so excited to be a part of the NewsGuild. Tell Schneps management to join us at the bargaining table and stop trying to exclude workers from our union now!
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