From Sunnyside Post : The city is at last starting up the acquisition process for the former Phipps playground, part of the Sunnyside Gard...

From the NY Times : In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that Mayor Bill de Blasio traded favors for political donations...

From the Daily News : Mayor de Blasio avoided questions Sunday about his alleged intervention on behalf of a big campaign donor who threw ...

From the Daily News : The city official who approved lifting deed restrictions that allowed a Lower East Side nursing home to be flipped f...

From DNA Info : The city has struck a deal to build 38 affordable housing units on a formerly deed-restricted plot of land. The area, f...

From the Queens Chronicle : A Queensboro Hill family is pushing to make an unused city-owned lot at the intersection of 136th Street and ...

From the Forum : The final steps of the new Hamilton Beach boardwalk are being constructed and it could be opening up soon. The “boardwa...

From Triumph of Civic Virtue : Ever since plans to exile the Triumph of Civic Virtue statue to Brooklyn came to light, enquiring minds hav...

Dear QC, Some time back shortly after the Triumph of Civic Virtue had been removed, the tarp left over the site was tagged with graffiti, ...

From the Daily News : The controversial statue, “Triumph of Civic Virtue,” is long gone from its perch on Queens Blvd. — but its noisy leg...

From the Times Ledger : Taxpayers shelled out $100,000 to clean the exiled Triumph of Civic Virtue statue and help move it from its perch ...

Dear Queenscrapper, In our continual pursuit of the truth behind the circumstances of the removal of Triumph of Civic Virtue, we have rec...

From the Daily News : A crumbling, controversial monument on the grounds of Queens Borough Hall may finally get a long-delayed facelift. The...

From New York World : An abandoned parking lot in Harlem and a former airport in Flushing may not appear to have much in common besides weed...

From A Walk in the Park : Scrambling to contain the fallout from the Queens Borough Hall cherry tree scandal City Hall released a damaging e...

Impetuous decision has dire consequences Last week, park and community advocates including the Juniper Park Civic Association, Newtown Histo...

From the Daily News : The decaying marble statue that sits at Union Turnpike and Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens was crafted almost 100 years ag...

From the NY Post : Bah! Humbug! For as long as anyone can recall, a gigantic wreath adorned the Municipal Building across from City Hall eac...

From the Daily News : Talks to save a portion of the historic St. Saviour's property for parkland are heating up as the owner prepares t...