BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | We asked. The mayor answered. The Village Sun recently had a virtual interview with Mayor Adams as part of his ongoing…
Posts tagged as “Rikers Island”
BY ERIC ADAMS | This week, our children headed back to school for the first day of the new school year. School supplies have been…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | It’s time to close Rikers — now! That was the message of a group of Rise and Resist protesters in…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | A drug user whose sometimes-dangerous exhibitionist antics have kept Sixth Precinct police on their toes, is now cooling his heels…
BY ERIC ADAMS | When I came into office as New York’s 110th mayor, there was no question that the city’s main jail, Rikers Island,…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Two concerned councilmembers are calling on the city to move female detainees currently held at a jail facility on Rikers Island…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Marching through the streets of Lower Manhattan on their way to Police Headquarters in the Civic Center, five protesters demanded justice…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Armed with posters, megaphones and boxes of Dunkin doughnuts in hand, community members from across Lower Manhattan gathered at the break…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Chanting “Mayor Adams — no new jail!” a flood of hundreds of fired-up protesters marched through the streets of Chinatown on…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | “While most Chinatown businesses focus on food, health and medicine, this Chinatown dig specializes in mass incarceration,” activist and comedian says…