In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 ...

A 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail ...

The city this week rolled out its ambitious plan to redevelop a major section of Downtown Jamaica, two years after it first ...

A vast majority of criminal court judges in New York do not choose to publish the decisions they make in the cases they ...

Queens Representative Greg Meeks and Appellate Division Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson helped unveil a postage stamp of ...

It has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number ...

A pilot program from the state’s court system meant to reduce the ballooning population on Rikers Island has seen early successes, officials claim.

The MTA will soon hold a series of public town halls on their ambitious plan to build a light rail from Queens to Brooklyn, even as funding for the project remains in question.

Queens’ St. John’s University men’s basketball team has achieved a lot this year, and one they hope to add too that success ...

The City Council on Wednesday approved New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Citi Field.

For about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a ...

Activists and elected officials rallied in Albany on Tuesday to call for prison reforms after a 22-year-old incarcerated man ...