The City Council’s “Common Sense Caucus” toured Rikers Island on Tuesday, where they touted supposed improvements to the notorious detention complex standing in direct contrast to a daming recent report from a federal watchdog that sharply criticized the conditions at the facility.
New Yorkers are continuing to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the mayhem at Union Square last week, with local officials now calling for accountability and demanding answers in response to the chaos.
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Gotham Gazette is an online publication covering New York policy and politics as well as news on public safety, transportation, education, finance and more.