After delays, new czar sees opening to revive Rikers closure push
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One-on-one with city’s new close Rikers czar Dana Kaplan.
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City appoints first ‘close Rikers czar’ to oversee delayed jail shutdown
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The city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long-delayed plan to shutter the troubled jail complex back on track.
Read More‘Trump Yard’: Locals worry they’ll be cut out of Mamdani, Trump Sunnyside Yard housing plan
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Western Queens locals are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to collaborate with President Donald Trump to build 12,000 units of housing in the World’s Borough, where the mayor once lived and where the president was raised.
Read MoreCity unveils plan to comply with jail oversight rules, solitary confinement ban
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City Hall last week unveiled a plan it says will finally bring the city into compliance with long-suspended jail oversight rules and a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers Island.
Read MoreMamdani taps Queens-raised official to lead budget office
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A Queens-raised official who manages the City University of New York’s finances was tapped by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to serve as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget on Thursday.
Read MoreFlight 587 families mark 24th anniversary
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Families of the victims of Flight 587, which went down in Queens 24 years ago this week, commemorated the anniversary of the crash in Rockaway on Wednesday.
Read MoreCuomo would abandon borough jails and rebuild Rikers if elected
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Former Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he would build new “state-of-the-art” jails on Rikers island in lieu of the four borough-based jails currently being built, if he is elected mayor.
Read MoreCouncil passes bill to require DOC to report detainee deaths
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The City Council on Monday passed a bill that they say will bring transparency to the way the city’s Department of Correction announces and shares information about detainee deaths.
Read MoreMayor suggests Rikers should stay open
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Mayor Eric Adams continued to stray from the city’s current plan to shutter Rikers Island on Tuesday, suggesting that he believes the troubled jail complex could remain open and be repaired, rather than shuttered.
Read MoreCity reaches milestone at Willets Point
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The city reached a major milestone last week in Willets Point when it completed construction of the structures of the first two buildings that will one day anchor the new neighborhood in Queens.
Read MoreAdams allows ICE back on Rikers
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The Adams administration said late Tuesday that they will soon allow federal immigration agents onto Rikers Island, a move critics say could violate New York City’s sanctuary city laws.
Read MoreCity expands commission to close Rikers: Lippman Commission grows as mayor’s position on jail’s closure shifts
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Over three dozen people have officially been appointed to serve on the second iteration of the Independent Rikers Commission, the group that has again been tasked with mapping a plan to shutter Rikers Island’s jail complex.
Read MoreConditional release commission has no commissioners
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It’s been two years since the city’s Local Conditional Release Commission was created – why is it still without a single commissioner?
Read MoreCity, state to transfer women and trans people off Rikers
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Around 230 incarcerated women and trans people will soon be transferred off of Rikers Island and sent to correctional facilities upstate, the governor announced.
Read MoreVaccine mandates begin, legal challenges to follow
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“It's a very tough pro-vaccination order.”
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