NYC Mayor Eric Adams comments on Democratic challenger Zohran Mamdani during an interview with Patrick Bet David: ERIC ADAMS: It’s really not out of nowhere. Those of us who were watching what was ...

The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

Families and criminal justice advocates have long urged jail officials to notify them about deaths and other emergencies in ...

Mayor Eric Adams “violated” the law when he blocked the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement in Big Apple prisons, a ...

A federal judge last week said the city was barred from fully implementing a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers ...

Adams affirmed that he does believe the Rikers Island jail complex should close and be replaced with borough-based jails. “Yes, I do,” he said.

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

Four bombshell lawsuits filed late Monday claim Adams and his top NYPD allies of running a department rife with corruption ...

Health officials told Lucy’s owners that she would have to leave the city. After the family, the neighborhood and its ...

Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island.

Mayor Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his ...

The lawsuits, by four former police officers, claim that a culture of cronyism ruled the department. James Essig, who was ...