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 doors.
Mayor Mamdani officially named Dana Kaplan the inaugural Close Rikers czar on April 28. She has spent a decade working to ...
The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...
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. That’s a tall task under the best circumstances. And at this point it’s a ...
Rikers Island, one of the most notable jails in the United States, has been slated to close for almost a decade. But with a closure deadline rapidly approaching, many have said that the city hasn't ...
For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive complex’s walls and all of us beyond them. Under city law, the Mamdani administration must produce a plan to ...
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hiring someone to oversee the closure of New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail. On Friday, the mayor’s office listed a job opening for a ...
News 12's Heather Fordham sits down with David Estrada, the executive director of the Sunset Park Business Improvement ...
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – A new facility is opening for Rikers detainees with “complex medical needs” at a Manhattan hospital, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. Some 104 detainees will move to the ...
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