A panel created by Mayor Eric Adams wants to consider using an “open primary” system for elections in New York City. Here’s ...

Various problems have reached such a critical point that federal authorities have stripped New York City of control over the ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams criticizes rival Mamdani's affordability proposals, contrasting their backgrounds and socialist policies ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked. In an ...

During Pride celebrations, the head of the Mayor's Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes was out and about.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has endorsed a proposal to shut down Rikers Island jail complex that holds 7,500 inmates. The facility, notorious for violence at the hands of guards and among ...

As the city’s public defender landscape heads toward a potential crisis, the city this week announced plans to create a new ...

The wrongful-death lawsuit against the two men comes after the inmates were awarded a combined $367,500 from New York City as ...