Mayor Adams Is Sued Over Failure to Comply With New Housing Laws The City Council is expected to join the Legal Aid Society in their lawsuit to force Mr. Adams to implement laws aimed at reducing homelessness.
New York’s Migrant Crisis: 600 Days of Chaos, Fury, and Mistakes More than 150,000 people have arrived in less than two years, throwing the city into crisis. Missed opportunities made things even harder.
Rikers Detainees Were Kept Locked in Cells After Fire Broke Out A report by the Board of Correction found that eight people remained in their cells for a half-hour while smoke spread through a housing unit.
Two Men Are Exonerated in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.
Federal Prosecutor Formally Seeks Takeover of Rikers Island After a judge agreed to hear arguments on the issue, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor joined the Legal Aid Society and other lawyers representing people detained in the jail complex in calling for a takeover.