The 2019 Charter Revision Commission is considering a menu of changes to the city’s land-use system, including the possibility of requiring a comprehensive plan.
The Queens Detention Facility is New York City’s only privately run detention facility. It houses over 200 federal detainees for the US Marshals Service.
Jumaane Williams has had to articulate how he would manage a citywide office with potentially sweeping focused but fairly limited resources.
The former speaker joined Max & Murphy to talk about NYCHA, the need for a woman’s voice at the citywide level, and what she thinks of the anti-gay comments of a Bronx Councilmember.
The Parole Board is missing commissioners and staff, most parole applications get shot down and hundreds who have served long sentences have no hope of getting out.
There’s a Neighborhood Advisory Council in each of the four boroughs where the de Blasio administration plans to build a new jail facility to facilitate the closing of Rikers Island. Here’s what we know about their membership.
‘Nothing sends a bigger signal that the city is cravenly committed to a system of mass incarceration than the construction of giant new jails in the city’s thriving neighborhoods.’
After a video emerged showing a violent arrest, officials rushed to free Jazmine Headley from jail. But why was she behind bars before anyone had a chance to investigate the charges that put her there?
City Limits spent its 43rd year doing what it has always done: Digging deep into complicated stories that matter to the city we love.
‘Some of the city’s most tireless and tenacious police reform advocates are Black women whose loved ones were killed by the NYPD.’