Almost a decade ago, plans were made to shut down Rikers Island for good. Here's the deadline the city was given to shut its ...

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a new Close Rikers czar charged with leading efforts to shutter the city's ...

As New York City’s first ever “close Rikers czar,” it’s Dana Kaplan’s job to get the notorious jails complex shut down ASAP.

The final beam was placed Wednesday atop the $3 billion Brooklyn borough-based jail, which will one day be the first facility ...

For the first time in the city's history, New York's top leader celebrated Ramadan with Muslim men at Rikers Island, New York City's massive jail complex. Zohran Mamdani is the city's first Muslim ...

Houlder and Hawkins are set to return to Bronx court on July 1. The pretrial phase could surface more of the surveillance ...

“These defendants are accused of using pepper spray on inmates in violation of department guidelines,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “To cover up these alleged violations, ...