With just three months remaining until the Democratic primary, six candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City ...

City agencies on Thursday held a design workshop at Borough Hall for the Queens jail, one of four facilities slated to ...

The MTA presented detailed plans for the Interborough Express (IBX), a major new rail project designed to improve transit in ...

Rikers Island will not shutter by the legally mandated deadline in 2027, according to a report released last week by the ...

Hochul’s proposal — which she argues would help stop criminal cases from being dismissed over “technicalities” — faces an ...

But this is not the case anymore. In fact, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey announced in late 2024 that LaGuardia ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

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

The city will be legally barred from using Rikers after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are fewer than 5,000 ...

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz explained that Stokes had harbored a longstanding resentment after being removed from Jones' birthday party in 2020 due to inappropriate behavior. This grudge ...

The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says one of the new jails being built to replace Rikers will now be dedicated to inmates with mental ...