Cops said the 19-year-old confessed to stabbing his mother’s live-in boyfriend, Anthony Casalaspro and sawing off his head ...

After his mother died in 2022, Selwyn Bernardez spiraled into a grief- and drug-induced psychosis, roaming the New York City subway system with a samurai sword. He struck a panhandler, landing him on ...

NEW YORK - In the shadow of a massive jail, a leafy Chinatown park welcomed New Yorkers playing mahjong, basketball and ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently proposed abandoning the borough-based jail plan in favor of rebuilding new facilities on Rikers Island.

An architect’s renderings of “humane” new detention facilities for the island intrigued a Chinatown audience opposed to a ...

The officer failed to provide lifesaving aid to the 43-year-old man as he had a seizure in a cell, according to an official report.

Oct. 10, 2025 – 23:47 – House Republican leadership won’t be whipping its rank-and-file members to vote against a bill to ...

US may oversee 200-strong force of Qatari, Egyptian, Turkish, Emirati troops in Gaza if ceasefire progresses, per senior US ...

When Andrew Cuomo was governor, he pushed then-Mayor Bill de Blasio to speed the shutdown of jails on Rikers Island. He ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become ...

Andrew Cuomo said during Crain's mayoral forum Wednesday morning that he wants to rebuild — not close, as is planned — the ...