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 misses deadline to release Rikers shutdown plan
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The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed effort to shutter the dangerous jail complex without a clear path forward.
Read MoreQueens to host free fan World Cup watch party
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Initially announced as a paid event in December, the Queens Fan Zone at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be free to enter for World Cup fans.
Read MoreCity’s public defenders join national protest, call for more funding
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The city’s largest criminal legal aid organizations joined a national protest on Thursday, warning the constitutional right to counsel is being “systematically dismantled” as public defenders across the country struggle to keep up with mounting cases.
Read MoreAstoria community board approves controversial street plan
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Queens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to support a controversial redesign of a busy Astoria strip.
Read MoreNew York Foundation for the Arts funds Queens artists’ work
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More than 100 other Queens artists who had their work funded last month through the Queens Arts Fund.
Read MoreAdvocates call on mayor to fully fund Right to Counsel
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Outside Brooklyn Housing Court on Monday morning, tenant organizers and legal aid attorneys led a rally on the courthouse sidewalk in support of expanding the city’s Right to Counsel program, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Comptroller Mark Levine toured inside.
Read MoreQueens residents still in the dark on Sunnyside Yard
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Long Island City residents say they are still in the dark about Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump’s $21 billion plan to build over ten thousand homes atop Sunnyside Yard, a proposal that caught many by surprise when it was announced in February.
Read MoreCity to open long-delayed Bellevue jail ward as Rikers closure effort restarts
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The city on Wednesday will welcome patients to a long-delayed jail ward at Bellevue Hospital, finally putting to use a 104-bed unit that has sat unused since early 2025.
Read MoreCouncilmembers question Mamdani DOI pick on relationship with mayor
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Nadia Shihata, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the Department of Investigations, was questioned by councilmembers over her relationship with the mayor and her plans for the agency on Monday.
Read MoreAdvocates push city to revive long-ignored part of Rikers shutdown plan
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Advocates are urging the Mamdani administration to transfer a long-vacant Rikers Island jail facility out of Department of Correction control, saying the city must revive a jail decommissioning process that came to a complete halt under former Mayor Eric Adams.
Read MoreCouncil and mayor at odds over budget
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council began to butt heads Wednesday over how to address the city’s multi-billion dollar shortfall after the Council released its response to the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal.
Read MoreDetainee dies on Rikers Island as new leadership takes over troubled jails
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A 39-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Thursday, marking the first death in the dangerous jail complex this year and the first since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.
Read MoreStaffing woes continue to stall opening of completed Bellevue jail ward
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The city still doesn’t have a timeline to open an already-constructed hospital jail ward meant to hold detainees with serious physical illness, despite new leadership in City Hall and the Department of Correction, who say they are fully committed to reversing the massive delay.
Read MorePilots dead and dozens injured after plane crashes into firetruck on LaGuardia tarmac
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Two airline pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured after a plane crashed into a firetruck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.
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