A former jail on a South Bronx barge is slated to be dismantled to make way for the planned Hunts Point Marine Terminal.

Two inmates died at the Rikers Island corrections comples on Friday. Helayne Seidman Less than an hour later, James Maldanado, 56, suffered a medical emergency at approximately 4:30 p.m. while on ...

Rikers Island is set to close in he coming years and to be replaced by the opening of new borough-based jails. The Bronx County jail is due to open on the grounds of the former Lincoln Hospital and ...

Separately, NYC Department of Correction (DOC) recently announced that two additional people died on or in transit to Rikers island on the same day, June 20. Norwood News previously published an op-ed ...

Officers observed 37-year-old Benjamin Kelly in medical distress at the Eric M Taylor Center on Rikers Island before 3 p.m. and provided medical assistance. He was pronounced dead 31 minutes later.

Two prisoners died just over an hour apart Friday — one at Rikers Island, and one after a medical emergency on a bus en route to the facility — city correction officials said. The deaths ...

The U.S. barge market is facing a retirement cliff, which could impact ag transportation logistics, one analyst warned. Ken Eriksen, managing member and strategic adviser at Polaris Analytics ...

Last October, government officials said they were working to remove a partially sunk barge in Fat Hogs Bay after opposition member Marlon Penn claimed East End residents had been complaining about the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a criminal scheme described by local law enforcement officials as the “first-of-its-kind,” two men allegedly attempted to smuggle liquefied narcotics onto Rikers ...

Just after 10 a.m. on June 18, the Bettendorf Fire Department responded to the Mississippi River in the 2900 block of Deport Street. BFD said a barge was on fire along the shoreline.

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Australian researchers have issued a final report on a decades-long search for a famous shipwreck believed to be off the coast of Rhode Island. Researchers confirmed the ...