Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race. His critics say his mayoralty would be ...

The Adams administration has repeatedly bashed the proposal the City Council approved in 2019 to close Rikers.

The vast majority of people detained at Rikers are waiting for their day in court and have not been convicted of any crime.

Eyewitness News has investigated the violence, the staffing levels, even the sexual abuse allegations inside Rikers Island.

NEW YORK — Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision ... to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island. In papers filed Monday with the appellate division ...

A federal judge has ordered an outside official to take over control of much of New York City's jail system after local officials failed to stem high rates of violence and long-standing dysfunction.

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

A federal judge on Tuesday said she is taking control of New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex away from city ...

Mayor Adams is exploring a move to abandon the current plan to close Rikers Island, and instead turn the borough-based sites intended to replace the notorious jail complex into housing ...

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is exploring a move to abandon the current plan to close Rikers Island, and instead and turn the borough-based sites intended to replace the notorious jail complex ...

NEW YORK — Attorneys for Mayor Eric Adams are appealing a court decision that’s temporarily blocking his administration from taking any steps to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers ...