Detainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their ...

A former Rikers Island correctional officer was cuffed by federal authorities last week after prosecutors said she smuggled ...

The family of a man who committed suicide on Rikers Island last year said in a new lawsuit that the city and its Department ...

It will be some time before locals can bike and walk the planned Queens Waterfront Greenway, but the city started the ...

With the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island now less than three years away, top court officials this ...

A major developer has plans to build two nearly 50-story towers in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Central Queens ...

"I support the Treatment Not Jail Act, legislation that promises to extend the healing my team witnesses every day to ...

Republican candidates challenging Queens Democratic state lawmakers in November’s general election are spending big, new ...

Xiaoning Zhang, a Chinese national who was found guilty of murdering her former Queens-based immigration lawyer, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on Wednesday.

Xiaoning Zhang, a Chinese national who was found guilty of murdering her former Queens-based immigration lawyer, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on Wednesday. Those speaking at the 27-year ...

Queens’ waterfront will one day be connected from Long Island City to Fort Totten in Whitestone, according to the city’s Department of Transportation. Officials with the DOT said this week that plans ...

Xiaoning Zhang, a Chinese national who was found guilty of murdering her former Queens-based immigration lawyer, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on Wednesday.