Manhattan Judge Mary Rosado issued the temporary restraining order at the request of the City Council, which sued to block ...

A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt discussions with the Trump administration allowing federal ...

The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid Mayor Eric Adams’ office slammed as a “redundant, bureaucratic ...

Lawmakers and criminal justice experts excoriated Mayor Eric Adams and his administration on Wednesday for their handling of a stalled plan to close Rikers Island. “Now is the time for strong ...

released an updated blueprint to close Rikers Island. The publication is timely: just three months into 2025, five people have already died in the city’s jail system. Our original 2017 report ...

CITYWIDE — NEW YORK CITY MUST ADVANCE STEPS THAT WILL SUPPORT THE PERMANENT CLOSURE OF RIKERS ISLAND and a successful transition to a borough-based jail system, says the City Council ...

NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by ...

The New York City Council filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to stop the Adams administration's move allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on Rikers Island. First Deputy Mayor Randy ...

Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind. The 55-year-old from Washington Heights is halfway through an eight-month sentence ...

FILE - The Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (Seth Wenig ...

April 16 (UPI) --Disgraced ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein filed an emergency request Wednesday to be sent to Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island due to a "tongue infection." "My clients ...