While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail population.  Now, as he prepares to take office in just over a month and a half, a coalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani make good on […]

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After years of oversight, the court-appointed federal monitor for Horizon Juvenile Center said its work at the Bronx youth jail is “complete” in a report issued Friday. The monitoring, required as part of a major civil rights lawsuit settlement known as Nunez in 2015, had initially applied to the Department of Correction to address abuses […]

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On the eve of Zohran Mamdani’s election, an assistant commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs joined a wave of commenters smearing the young Muslim candidate as a terror sympathizer.  “Never forget,” read a meme Erick Salgado posted on his personal Facebook page, the words superimposed over a photo of the Twin Towers exploding […]

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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. In New York City, once proudly unwelcoming to guns, residents are arming up. Since June 2022, when a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision forced state lawmakers to relax longstanding restrictions, tens of […]

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In the final days of the mayoral campaign, a secretive political action committee called Put NYC First steered more than $8 million from deep pocket donors into independent spending committees attacking Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and, in some cases, supporting ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At one point, one of the independent spenders Put NYC First funded put […]

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