Conflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open ...

Several local Queens electeds and City Comptroller Brad Lander are calling on the city not to renew a contract with a borough ...

Two days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his ...

A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time ...

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

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

Supporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.

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

Eugene Kelty, Jr., a former firefighter who helped lead the evacuation of downtown Manhattan on 9/11 and who served as the ...

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

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

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 ...