Jacob Kaye

Mets owner Steve Cohen's plan to bring a casino to Western Queens was overwhelmingly approved by all five community boards charged with reviewing the proposal under the city's land use review process.

As a potential federal takeover of Rikers Island looms over the city, a court-appointed monitor said in a highly anticipated report that violence and dysfunction has continued to plague the jail complex and the agency that runs it over much of the past year.

By Jacob Kaye Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday pitched a vague plan to turn one of the city's proposed – and extremely delayed – borough-based

A federal takeover of Rikers Island has never been more of a possibility.

The city officially broke ground on New York City Football Club’s future stadium in Willets Point on Wednesday, a little more than two years after Mayor Eric Adams first announced that the soccer club would one day build its future home in Queens.

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended his administration’s efforts to quell violence and disorder on Rikers Island, a little less than a week after a federal judge said she was leaning toward taking the jail complex out of the city’s hands for its failure to keep detainees safe.

A Rikers Island corrections captain was recently accused of regularly sexually harassing and assaulting an officer who worked under his watch.

Mayor Eric Adams was sued by the City Council on Monday for his refusal to implement a law banning solitary confinement in the city's jails.

Top officials in New York’s court system called on Albany to boost their budget next year by $268.2 million, bringing their total budget to $3 billion.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s promise to issue clemency on a rolling basis has stalled this year, concerning advocates who say hundreds of New Yorkers deserve a shot at release from prison.