Jacob Kaye

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.

A man who was arrested for allegedly threatening Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a series of voicemails pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor aggravated harassment charge on Wednesday, avoiding a 60-year prison sentence he once faced.

Free World Cup watch parties will be held across the World's Borough over the course of the upcoming tournament, officials said on Monday.

For the second time in around three decades, a Queens jury found Michael Robinson guilty of murdering his estranged wife.

For the second time in around three decades, a Queens jury found Michael Robinson guilty of murdering his estranged wife. The verdict, which was reached la

While the federal monitor tasked with tracking conditions on Rikers Island appears optimistic about the leadership of the two new officials in charge of the city's jails, violence in the troubled complex remains high, the monitor said in a new report