Jacob Kaye

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.

Kimberly Osorio, the media personality who allegedly hid a cell phone for a Queens man accused of helping to steal $400,000 from legal nonprofit Queens Defenders, asked a judge to toss much of the evidence federal prosecutors plan to bring against her at trial.

The grandson of infamous mob boss John Gotti was sentenced to a little more than a year in federal prison on Monday for using his Queens auto parts company to bilk a COVID-19 loan program out of more than $1 million.

Flyers calling for recruits to join a far-right Jewish group once dubbed a terrorist organization by the FBI were recently spotted in Queens, plastered to a parking meter across the street from the office of the borough's top cop.

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.

The city's Department of Correction may soon begin to implement parts of a local law banning solitary confinement in the city's jails, nearly two and a half years after the bill was first passed.

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.

The state this month will begin planning its redevelopment of Queens' Aqueduct Racetrack, which is set to be one of the largest empty plots of state-owned land when the horse racing complex closes its tracks for good in June. Planning for the massive redevelopment of the approximately 100-acre site...

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. According to a new court filing first reported by the Eagle, Nicholas...

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.