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.

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 ...

Investigations into alleged abuses by Rikers Island officers will no longer be handled by the Department of Correction, ...

New York City has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million to settle lawsuits brought by the families of two men who died of ...

Plans to temporarily shut down a number of streets around the Queens Criminal Courthouse to facilitate the building of Queens ...

New York City has paid more than $5 million over the past few weeks to settle two suits alleging the city is responsible for ...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers say their client felt chest pains as jurors deliberated in his rape retrial. The disclosure ...

Harvey Weinstein‘s third New York rape trial has ended with a deadlocked jury and a state judge declaring a mistrial. The ...

Jurors deliberating in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial have been sent home early after the former Hollywood producer ...

The brother of a Staten Island deli owner killed in a 2023 robbery attempt has been cleared by a judge to confront a man ...