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City Jail Population Surpasses 7,000, Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan
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 […]
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Trump Organization’s Criminal Record Clouds Its Bid to Reclaim Wollman Rink
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 […]
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Latest Trump Admin Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say
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 […]
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Comptroller Urges Cancellation of $20M Contract Extension for Indicted Eric Adams Campaign Fundraiser
This story was published in partnership with The Guardian. City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging the administration of Mayor Eric 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 […]
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