Demand grows to make Rikers Island death reports public
Eight people have died behind bars this year so far, including three at the George R. Vierno Center, one of eight jails on Rikers Island. In 2022, city jails
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Eight people have died behind bars this year so far, including three at the George R. Vierno Center, one of eight jails on Rikers Island. In 2022, city jails
More than 200 raucous demonstrators rallied outside a former Staten Island nursing home Sunday, chanting, "Close the border!" to protest its possible conversion to an emergency shelter for migrants.
New York officials will transform an assisted living facility in Staten Island into a shelter for migrants in the coming months, reports say.
A name painted in big, bold yellow letters on the side of a crane that collapsed high above Midtown on Wednesday — LOMMA — was also attached to a pair of Manhattan crane disasters in 2008 that took the lives of nine people. James F. Lomma, who died in 2019, was the owner of New York Crane & Equipment, the company that owned the crane that caught fire and collapsed at 550 10th Ave. near W. 41st ...
The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member faced a reckless driving charge in California. His father, a New York City firefighter, was killed responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.