A 22-year-old Rikers Island detainee says jail staff “effectively sterilized” him by prescribing him an antidepressant that gave him a painful, five-day erection — and ignoring his ...

Prosecutors said the defendant — listed in jail records at 5-feet-8 inches-tall and weighing 180 pounds — grabbed a kitchen ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

After the Iran bombings, more officers were placed at religious, cultural and diplomatic locations, Mayor Eric Adams said. The M.T.A. and the Port Authority have activated counterterrorism protocols.

The city is a mess,” said Audrey Harkins, a feisty Battery Park City resident who stands 4-foot-11 and weighs 115 pounds ...

Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark ...