With receivership looming, what could the future of Rikers look like?
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Part two of the Eagle’s deep dive into the history of Rikers and how it may impact the troubled jail complex’s future.
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A century of violence, chaos and death: Inside the troubled history of Rikers Island
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As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the Eagle is looking back at the history of the city’s troubled jail complex in an effort to understand how the city arrived at this critical moment.
Read MoreOn the way to QueensWay: City presents first look at new park planned for abandoned rail line
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The plan to build a park atop an abandoned train line in Central and South Queens may be a few years away from completion, but locals recently got a peek into what it may one day look like.
Read More‘You will be caught, you will be prosecuted’: AG rolls out crackdown on fraudulent Medicaid billings
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Dozens of companies that offer transportation services for disabled New Yorkers have been taking advantage of New York’s Medicaid program, Attorney General Letita James claimed on Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens jail construction rankles courthouse staff
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Those who drive to work at the Queens Criminal Courthouse say they are expecting their commute to become even more of a headache after the city shut down a large parking lot previously reserved for court employees.
Read MoreWith new criminal charges looming, Adams points to vague conspiracy
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In the face of news that federal prosecutors may soon bring additional criminal charges against him, Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday waved off the threat as nothing more than a conspiracy that he refused to elaborate on.
Read MoreBiden signs bill aimed combat flooding in Queens into law
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President Joe Biden signed a bill into law this week that aims to combat excessive flooding in Queens by sending close to $200 million to the borough to shore up its resiliency infrastructure.
Read MoreCrime is down, but more cops to hit city streets and subways
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Overall crime was down in 2024, the mayor and police commissioner said on Monday. However, that isn't stopping them from deploying more cops to the city’s streets and subways.
Read MoreQueens gets two new supervising judges
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Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas and First Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Norman St. George this week elevated six members of the bench to supervising judge appointments in New York City’s Criminal, Civil and Housing Courts, including two in Queens.
Read MoreNew bill aims to help DAs with discovery
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A new bill introduced in Albany this week aims to help prosecutors catch up with new discovery laws by giving them access to the online databases of police departments and other agencies.
Read MoreHolden’s deputy chief of staff to run for his seat
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Alicia Vaichunas, the longtime deputy chief of staff to Councilmember Bob Holden, is running with her boss’s blessing for his term-limited seat.
Read More‘Morally repugnant’: Guards stopped sick detainee from seeing doctors prior to her death, report says
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Correctional officers on Rikers Island refused to allow nurses to check on a 23-year-old woman for two days while she suffered a medical emergency inside an isolated cell, according to a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight board.
Read MoreTen teens shot outside Jamaica nightclub on New Year’s Day
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2025 started in horror for residents of Jamaica, as a mass shooting left 10 teenagers injured and the community reeling last week.
Read MoreThirty years later, Queens DA IDs murder victim
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Over thirty years after her dead body was discovered and her killers were brought to justice, Judy Rodriguez has officially been found.
Read MoreGov vetoes outgoing Queens pol’s final bill
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Governor Kathy Hochul in December vetoed the Jury of Our Peers Act shooting down what would have been the last bill made into law by now-retired Queens Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry.
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