City Agencies News

Few Have Left Prison Under Hochul Early-Release Push

April 29, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 30, 2025, 9:00 a.m.

Just 151 people have left state incarceration out of hundreds potentially eligible as state grapples with a shortage of correction officers. Housing restrictions are a big reason why.

The Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.

Jails

Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers

April 3, 2025, 5:47 p.m.April 3, 2025, 5:47 p.m.

Some 500 people waiting to be sent to upstate prisons won’t be moved until at least late April, THE CITY has learned.

Trucks were parked longterm along Rockaway Boulevard near JFK Airport.

Streets

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

March 27, 2025, 8:17 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:32 p.m.

Residents there say they’ve seen more illegally parked tractor trailers in recent years that compromise street safety and hurt businesses.

An MTA police officer watches people enter a turnstile at Penn Station.

Transit

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

March 19, 2025, 1:29 p.m.March 19, 2025, 8:56 p.m.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the feds will cut funding to New York City Transit if they don’t get information on how New York will reduce subway crime.

Gov. Kathy Hochul walks out of Marcy Correctional Facility with barbed wire behind her. She walks with a man in a grey suit on the right and a woman in a beige suit on the left.

Criminal Justice

Prison Deaths and Strike Chaos Reveal Backsliding on Basic Reforms

March 17, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 14, 2025, 4:54 p.m.

A promised prison overhaul is on a collision course with New York’s long history of keeping basic information about abuses and killings hidden from the public

A rendering shows plans for an echo-friendly affordable housing development at 1946 E. 7th St. in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

Climate Change

Brooklyn Senior Housing Project First to Get on Green Fast Track Approval Process

March 3, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 2, 2025, 11:50 a.m.

A development in Homecrest takes advantage of new rules aimed at halving pre-planning review for some environmentally sensitive apartment projects.

Corrections officers hold a picket line outside Green Haven prison.

Labor

Tentative Agreement to End State Prison Strike Rolls Back Solitary Reform

Feb. 28, 2025, 1:50 p.m.Feb. 28, 2025, 2:02 p.m.

Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to temporarily suspend a rule limiting the use of solitary confinement to 15-days and to pay officers extra money to work overtime on weekends.

Governor Hochul wears a dark navy suit and holds a black folder. A man is on her right in a grey suit and her left a woman in a dark green jacket. The red brick prison entrance reads Marcy Correctional Facility behind them.

Incarceration

Upstate Prison Staffers Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks

Feb. 20, 2025, 2:17 p.m.Feb. 20, 2025, 6:43 p.m.

Brooks, 43, was repeatedly punched and kicked by guards who held him down on a medical bed inside an upstate prison on Dec. 9.

Transit

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Feb. 19, 2025, 12:43 p.m.Feb. 21, 2025, 4:35 p.m.

MTA and Hochul seek court intervention following Federal Highway istration's withdrawal of for the tolling program, while president declares: "LONG LIVE THE KING!"

Department of Citywide istrative Services Deputy Commissioner Jesse Hamilton waits for a subway at the Bowling Green station.

City Hall

Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City , Suit Alleges

Feb. 13, 2025, 11:40 a.m.Feb. 14, 2025, 10:54 a.m.

The Adams ally, his real estate buddy Diana Boutross and former Adams advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin all vacationed together in Japan — and had their phones seized by law enforcement when they returned.

City Agencies

Few Have Left Prison Under Hochul Early-Release Push

Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

Prison Deaths and Strike Chaos Reveal Backsliding on Basic Reforms

Brooklyn Senior Housing Project First to Get on Green Fast Track Approval Process

Tentative Agreement to End State Prison Strike Rolls Back Solitary Reform

Upstate Prison Staffers Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City , Suit Alleges

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