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The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high as the target number needed for the longstanding plan to transfer incarceration operations to four borough-based jails.  Department of Correction officials blame a host of factors: the state prison strike jamming so-called […]

The Trump Organization’s bid to again operate Central Park’s iconic Wollman Rink after its removal in the wake of the 2021 Capitol riots will, if selected, have to skate past the company’s criminal record to win a city board’s approval. Getting clearance will require a city committee to overlook the company’s 2022 conviction on criminal

In February, House Republicans passed a budget that President Donald Trump described as “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” It lays out Trump’s plan for federal money: tax cuts for the wealthy and increased military spending paid for by cuts to social services.  Currently, the bill must pass the Senate before becoming law. And even though Trump’s

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The Trump administration’s new demand that the MTA fork over publicly available data on transit crime amounts to little more than “shadowboxing and bluster” in its latest battle against the transit agency, critics said Wednesday. In a Tuesday night letter to the head of the MTA, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy set a

This story was published in partnership with The Guardian. City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging the administration of Mayor Adams to nix a contract extension that would steer nearly $20 million to a hotel owner who was indicted last month in an alleged corruption scheme involving one of her government-funded Queens properties. The hotel owner,

In his first term as New York City mayor, Eric Adams set out to establish himself as a friend of labor, quickly settling contracts with the city’s largest public sector unions, establishing a remote work pilot for some civil servants and securing Staten Island Ferry workers their first raise in more than a decade. Under

Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign severely lags behind his competitors in the latest fundraising haul, as his base appears to be dwindling months before the primary. The incumbent raised $36,121.34 between Jan. 12 and March 13 — but had to give back more than $21,000 to donors who’d already maxed out on giving or had

Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Homeless Services is trying out new rules that would create new grounds for kicking residents out of city shelters, THE CITY has learned.  A copy of a draft proposal for “Enhanced Client Placement Support” obtained by THE CITY would let DHS deny adults a placement in shelters if they fail

The CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. The country’s largest private funder of biomedical research has cut its funding for a program at Queens College that had focused on making science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive and engaging for students of diverse backgrounds, the college confirmed