The city blew past a legal deadline Friday to release a detailed plan for closing Rikers Island, leaving its long-delayed ...

Despite not being convicted of the top murder charge, the man who shot and killed an NYPD officer in Queens was sentenced to ...

A Queens judge dismissed an alleged petition fraud case against Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar on procedural grounds on ...

Two of Queens’ more tenured elected officials are now running unopposed in this year’s primaries after their opponents failed ...

Initially announced as a paid event in December, the Queens Fan Zone at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be ...

The city’s Department of Correction may soon begin to implement parts of a local law banning solitary confinement in the city ...

The grandson of infamous mob boss John Gotti was sentenced to a little more than a year in federal prison on Monday for using ...

The first full-fledged casino in New York City opened on Tuesday in Queens, less than six months after the state approved the ...

The city has appointed its first-ever “close Rikers czar,” tasking a longtime criminal justice reformer with getting its long ...

The final beam was placed Wednesday atop the $3 billion Brooklyn borough-based jail, which will one day be the first facility ...

Hundreds gathered in Roy Wilkins Park on Monday evening to mourn the death of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre, who was shot and ...

Officials broke ground on a new Queens housing development on Friday at a site nearly the size of similar housing projects at ...