The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

Becca Amos, a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and florist, and floral designer Meredith Wheeler, owner of Secret ...

NEW YORK — As Rikers Island continues to be in turmoil, lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to consider emergency relief to alleviate conditions on the island.

The recognizable duck portraits that once hung in the dining room of Pure Food and Wine now live in an apartment a block and ...

Minimalist city building game Islanders New Shores is finally here, with a mountainous roadmap also planned throughout the ...