New York State finally has a plan to turn the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center into thousands of units of housing. It will also have full power to approve the plan — angering neighbors who feel they’ll be sidestepped on a project that could transform the low-density neighborhood in eastern Queens with “tall monstrosities” up to eight stories […]
Haidee Chu
Haidee is THE CITY’s Queens reporter, where she covers the latest news out of the city’s largest borough.
Posted inCongress
Queens, L.I. Pols Gear Up for Special Election Fight After Santos Ousted
George Santos has officially been expelled from Congress — and local party officials in Queens and Nassau County are already hurrying to vet and get a candidate out the door to represent the swing district with a national spotlight. The race to replace him is imminent: State law requires the governor to declare a special […]
Posted inQueens
Vendors Return to Corona Plaza — With Tough Competition for Just Over a Dozen Stalls
Aleyda Vivar woke up at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning to do something she hasn’t been able to for about four months: Gather up storage boxes full of blue-and-white ceramics, gabán ponchos, and other artisanal goods from her home state of Puebla, Mexico to sell at Corona Plaza in Queens. “We woke up, and we gave […]
Posted inQueens
Who Wants Rep. George Santos’ Seat? A Candidate Guide
Rep. George Santos has “embellished” his resume, allegedly filed false campaign finance reports and improperly used campaign funds for OnlyFans and Botox. But one thing he won’t be doing is running next year to keep his seat in New York’s third congressional district — where 17 candidates have already filed to run for the swing-district vacancy […]
Posted inEric Adams
Mayor’s Asian Affairs Liaison Raised Big Money — and Big Questions About Her Conduct
In March 2021, a 33-year-old tech worker from Flushing, Queens, joined Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign as a volunteer, working regularly with an effusive and understatedly powerful member of Adams’s inner circle named Winnie Greco. Shortly after Adams got to City Hall, Greco, by then on the city payroll as the mayor’s $100,000-a-year director of Asian […]
Posted inQueens
Principal ‘Covered Up’ After Second Grader Brought Knife to Target Classmate, Say Parents
Parents are calling for the ouster of the controversial principal of P.S. 398 in Queens, who did not inform them on the day that a student brought a kitchen knife to school and told other kids he intended to use it at lunchtime to attack a fellow second-grader he may have considered a romantic rival. […]
Posted inTaxi & Limousine Commission
App Drivers Rush to Get Green TLC Licenses Before Judge-Ordered Stop Hits
An Uber driver makes a frantic phone call in Mandarin to gather information for paperwork. More than 20 staff members at Primetime Brokerage fields questions from swarms of anxious listeners that surround them. Such was the scene at the taxi and rideshare service agency based in Sunnyside, Queens Thursday afternoon, as dozens of Uber and […]
Posted inElections
Bronx GOP Council Win Adds Historic Note to Otherwise Quiet Election Night
Republicans in the City Council got a surprise win in Tuesday’s election, as a progressive Democrat in a politically mixed area of The Bronx couldn’t hang on to her Throggs Neck seat. Elsewhere in the city, Democrats appeared to hold on to competitive southern Brooklyn seats and exonerated Central Park Five activist Yusef Salaam sailed […]
Posted inElections
Republican Council Candidates Hope To Pick Up Seats in Low-Turnout Election
There’s one more day to vote in New York’s off-year local election. So far, it’s been an off year for turnout, too: hardly 85,000 of the city’s nearly 3.5 million voters came to the polls during the early voting period, which ended on Sunday. With few people showing up to vote, there’s room for surprises, […]
Posted inImmigrants
Miss Immigrant USA, Whose Contestants Often Appear With Adams, Cancels Its Crowning
They’ve been photographed repeatedly with Mayor Eric Adams. They’ve volunteered their time at more than 100 government and civic events in the last three months. They are contestants in Miss Immigrant USA, where many traditional beauty pageant rules do not apply. Here, contestants representing different countries of origin are judged not by their age or […]