When we finally caught up to him, the rap legend went deep on Tha Carter VI, his family, the Super Bowl, and much more — ...

The housing model provides a stable residence that formerly homeless people with mental illness and addictions can’t “fail ...

Arrests rose after the height of the pandemic and more people ended up on Rikers Island. Yet major crime started decreasing drastically since last summer but the jail population continues to rise.

The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid ... transition from the troubled jail system to new borough-based ...

New York City lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the ...

New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent demands placed on Mayor Eric Adams by the Trump administration.

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 Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about the construction of a new borough-based jail in his own district.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams ‘ administration is allowing federal immigration officials to operate at Rikers Island to work on gang and drug-related criminal investigations in the city’s largest ...

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 ...