U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been posting detainees' mugshots and criminal histories at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, which has emerged as a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration enforcement.
But the agency’s own internal data paints a different picture of those inside Delaney Hall, where detainees have mounted a labor and hunger strike in recent weeks in protest of the conditions.
A Gothamist analysis of ICE data reveals that the vast majority of the roughly 10,300 people detained at Delaney Hall through March 10 — more than 70% — have no criminal history.
New Jersey is suing the private operator of Delaney Hall after the company refused to give state health inspectors full access to the facility, which Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is ultimately seeking to shut down.
Rebecca Bennett has won the hotly contested Democratic primary in New Jersey’s closely watched 7th Congressional District and will take on embattled incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. in the general election. In the state's 12th District, Dr. Adam Hamawy bested a field of 12 other Democrats to win the primary.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during his first appearance on WNYC’s "Ask The Mayor" on "The Brian Lehrer Show" yesterday, defended his decision to boost the NYPD's headcount.
A group of trans New Yorkers asked a federal judge yesterday to block NYU Langone Health from sharing their sensitive health information with the Trump administration.
The FDNY said major fires have more than doubled in the Bronx over the past two years, driven by a concerning rise in electrical system problems in aging buildings.
The black-crowned night heron is one of New York City's most common birds. Ecologists say it could vanish from local waters in 10 years.
NPR reports that former Rep. George Santos is under federal investigation for posting online that he'd be at the State of the Union address while allegedly betting on the prediction market Kalshi that he wouldn't be there.
The NYPD said it's looking for a man who recently passed notes to bank tellers at a series of Upper West Side banks and received between $0 and $1,700 in return.
"I’d rather have an empty seat than a Democrat": Republicans in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District had the awkward experience yesterday of voting for Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who's been absent for almost three months but ran unopposed in his party's primary.
A lot has happened to the Knicks in the decades since their last title. Like Patrick Ewing's entire career, for example. Carmelo Anthony. Linsanity. The “Go New York Go” song that you can’t get out of your head. Superfan Spike Lee. Timothée Chalamet. The fans have been through a lot.
The New York attorney general and the top prosecutors of six other Northeast states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over what they call a “blatantly unlawful” deal to cancel a $795 million offshore wind lease.
A summer of back-to-back mega-events — the NBA Finals, World Cup, Sail 250 boat parade — will saddle the NYPD with roughly $92 million in special-events overtime and security costs, and the federal government will reimburse only a fraction of it.
