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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown took office in June 1991.

Queens has mixed emotions on DA Brown’s decision not to run for re-election

By Mark Hallum

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announcing a fraud arrest in 2014.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown won’t seek re-election after 27 years in office

By Bill Parry

Melva Miller (left) with Queens Borough President Melinda Katz during a lighter moment at a 2017 Queens Borough Hall meeting.

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Former Queens deputy borough president tapped to lead citywide civic group that’s focused on next Census

By Naeisha Rose

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UPDATED: Borough President Melinda Katz announces run for Queens DA

By Mark Hallum

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Long Island City

Katz calls on Amazon to front cost of BQX streetcar and other mass transit expansions in Queens

By Mark Hallum

Elmhurst

New Queens Vietnam Veterans memorial at Elmhurst Park is a long time in coming

By Mark Hallum

Photo by Bruce Adler

Jackson Heights

Queens senator Jose Peralta remembered as ‘fighter’ for immigrants and LGBT community

By Mark Hallum

The repainted Tent of Tomorrow at the New York State Pavilion, with the iconic space needles towering in the background.

Corona

Schumer & Gillibrand announce $16 million in federal funds to restore NYS Pavilion at Flushing Meadows

By Bill Parry

Queens borough president and religious leaders from across the borough condemned recent acts of hate nationwide at a Borough Hall vigil on Oct. 29.

Queens remembers victims of Tree of Life Synagogue shooting with candlelight vigil and prayer

By Carlotta Mohamed

Photo by Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech

Elmhurst

Mayor Bill de Blasio talks terrorism at opening of Express Care Clinic at Elmhurst Hospital

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech

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Woodside

Queens is ‘primed’ for new Amazon fulfillment center at former Bulova facility in Woodside

By Bill Parry

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Flushing

LIRR celebrates completion of big improvements to Flushing-Main Street station

By Mark Hallum

Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold "City Hall in Your Borough" in Queens on Oct. 22-26.

Politics

Mayor de Blasio will be running the city out of Queens next week during ‘City Hall in Your Borough’

By Bill Parry

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz

Politics

Queens boro prez blasts ‘misguided, anti-immigrant proposal’ from feds on public assistance programs

By Bill Parry

Councilman Eric Ulrich and city Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg celebrate the new streetlamps on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven.

Woodhaven

Woodhaven brightens up with new streetlamps along Jamaica Avenue shopping strip

By Carlotta Mohamed

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Politics

Premiere Queens Power List event showcases the most influential people in the ‘World’s Borough’

By Jenna Bagcal

Jennifer Weprin (at left) with Ellen Kodadek and Veronica Tsang during Flushing Town Hall's 2018 spring gala.

Queens cultural affair director to take the reins at Little Neck’s Queens County Farm Museum

By QNS News Team

A rendering of the Archer Green Apartments that will rise on the site of a former NYPD parking garage in Jamaica.

Jamaica

Ground finally broken on a new mixed-use Jamaica building with 380 affordable apartments

By Robert Pozarycki

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News

Queens event helps formerly convicted individuals during Katz’s ‘Know Your Rights’ Week

By Jenna Bagcal

Jamaica

First phase of emergency room expansion at Queens Hospital in Jamaica is wrapped up

By QNS News Team

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Repairs to the Queens Midtown Tunnel are ahead of schedule and under budget, Cuomo touts in LIC

By Jenna Bagcal

A young boy plays in the new sprinklers at Astoria Heights Playground

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Astoria Heights Playground reopens after a ‘long overdue’ renovation project

By QNS News Team

Platforms propping up retail shops on Lefferts Boulevard above the Long Island Rail Road tracks in Kew Gardens will be rehabilitated instead of razed.

Kew Gardens businesses spared wrecking ball after MTA picks repair plan for Lefferts Boulevard overpass

By Robert Pozarycki

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Queens Borough Board approves zoning amendment that would require hotel permits in manufacturing areas

By Jenna Bagcal

More from Around New York

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on sentencing of Donald Trump

DA Bragg prepares for Trump hush-money conviction to fizzle out a day before sentencing

Pride Center of Staten Island executive director Carol Bullock.

Staten Island Pride Center executive director Carol Bullock to step down

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Marjorie Parker, President and CEO of JobsFirstNYC

Free Kid and Family Activities in NYC: 10 Free Things to Do This Week

New York Family

Free Kid and Family Activities in NYC: 10 Free Things to Do This Week