Two detainees die within a day on Rikers
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Two detainees died on Rikers Island in quick succession of each other on Monday and Tuesday as the jail’s top officials were across the Atlantic, touring jails in Europe.
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Queens riders rejoice LIRR return after strike
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Long Island Rail Road riders in Queens rejoiced on Tuesday as the nation’s busiest rail line started up again after a worker strike suspended train service for three days.
Read MoreFirst buildings open in massive Willets Point redevelopment
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City officials and private developers cut the ribbon on Willets Point Commons, an 880-unit affordable apartment complex on the outer edge of what will one day be an entirely new neighborhood in Willets Point.
Read MorePublic defense orgs condemn treatment of woman who gave birth in Brooklyn court
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A coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.
Read MoreLIRR strike causes massive headaches in Queens
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Queens, home to four times as many LIRR stations as the rest of the boroughs combined, felt the pain on Monday as the LIRR workers’ strike entered its third day – and first weekday.
Read MoreRockaway pol calls for city to fund trauma center
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When Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out his $124 billion executive budget proposal last week, it did not include any continuing funds for a new trauma center on the Rockaway peninsula. Now, local officials are calling for the money to be restored in the city’s final fiscal agreement.
Read MoreMetropolitan Park casino construction running months behind schedule
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Steve Cohen’s New York Mets are off to a slow start this season – and so is his $8 billion casino project, which is already more than five months behind schedule.
Read MoreNew York’s top court decided cases more quickly last year, report says
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The state’s top court concluded cases at a faster rate in 2025, continuing a trend that has begun to emerge under Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, according to a new report.
Read MoreQueens begins to imagine a new future for Aqueduct
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An entirely different type of starting gun was fired at Aqueduct Racetrack this week as the state began soliciting public feedback about what to do with the massive plot of state-owned land when it becomes empty later this year.
Read MoreCity to speed up LaGuardia bus ahead of World Cup with new Jax Heights bus lane
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While New Yorkers and potential visitors are bracing for transportation headaches when the World Cup comes to town in June, City Hall is hoping to ease the pain and speed up buses in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreQueens officials relieved after mayor axes property tax increase threat
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Property tax increases that officials claimed would have greatly harmed Queens residents will not be included in the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday as he rolled out his $124 billion executive spending proposal.
Read MoreQueens rep introduces bill to keep migrants out of courthouses and away from feds
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A Queens representative proposed legislation that would give migrants the option to attend legally-mandated court appearances virtually and potentially avoid arrest by federal immigration officers. But the bill faces an uphill climb in the conservative legislature.
Read MorePrison watchdog agency lacks enough commissioners to fulfill duties
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While an expansion of the state’s prison oversight agency went into effect over the weekend, the agency cannot function until the governor and legislature appoint new board members, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreCourt-appointed manager to take over troubled Rikers misconduct investigations
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Investigations into alleged abuses by Rikers Island officers will no longer be handled by the Department of Correction, according to a new organizational structure that puts a court-appointed remediation manager in charge of probing misconduct inside the jails.
Read MoreAfter 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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