Ryan Schwach

By Ryan Schwach In 2022, then-Assembly candidate Juan Ardila was an up-and-coming young progressive with a City Council bid under his belt

Judges are applauding a bill passed in Albany last week that would nearly eliminate the so-called “death gamble,” which they say forced them to choose between staying on the bench or retiring for the sake of their family's financial future.

The fight over Governor Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing pause came to a head at the foot of the Queensborough Bridge on Friday as a local Queens pol who has long been opposed to the now-delayed toll sparred with transit advocates and prevented a local city councilmember supportive of congestion pr

It’s been over a decade since Rockaway’s Peninsula Hospital shuttered its doors. The closure was the start of what locals have described as a dwindling and inadequate healthcare system in Queens’ southernmost community, which often posts among the highest rates of child mortality, shootings and homi

The race to represent Flushing-centered Assembly District 40 appears to be a tight one, with incumbent Assemblymember Ron Kim locked in a competitive primary to represent the heart of Queens' Asian American community.

By Ryan Schwach When the Jury of Our Peers Act – which allows people with past felonies to serve on juries – was passed in Albany earlier this month, it had an extra meaning for the state assemblymember who sponsored it.

New York’s heat wave may have broken just before Tuesday’s primary elections, but a number of contested races throughout Queens had yet to cool down. Across the World’s Borough on Tuesday, a relatively small number of voters headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a number of hotly contested De

After being closed down for renovations last summer, the Astoria Park pool, the city’s largest swimming pool, mostly opened up to the public again Thursday, along with public pools throughout the five boroughs.

Tenants who lived in a Sunnyside building before it was destroyed by a fire late last year will receive another six months of temporary housing from their landlord, who faced public pressure in recent days to extend the tenants’ housing after initially threatening to end it. &