Zachary Groz is a freelance journalist based in New York. He previously served as co-editor-in-chief of The New Journal, an ...

After Eric Adams on Thursday morning became the first sitting New York City mayor in over 150 years to face criminal charges, ...

A landmark reform law was meant to overhaul carceral punishment in New York. Getting prisons to follow it has been an uphill ...

As the state's plans to get New Yorkers out of their cars stall, Governor Hochul is championing a highway expansion in the ...

That perpetual punishment is often enacted “in the name of victims,” who can offer statements to place in someone’s parole ...

New Yorkers were no exception, taking the wheel in large numbers and leaving the Metropolitan Transit Authority, North ...

If you’ve scrolled through social media lately, there’s a good chance you’ve seen an ad for rooftop solar. The latest government incentives are so generous, some ads claim, that you can get a new roof ...

Brandon Stradford was nearly two hours late to his first day as a commissioner on New York’s Board of Parole. He said he’d accidentally slept in. It was a rocky start to his first high-level ...

It was the fall of 1978, and the 13-year-old boy was reluctant to attend his counseling session. Vincent Festa, the school psychologist at Herricks Middle School and High School in North Hempstead, ...

Standing on the steps of City Hall in September 2022, David Do, the chair of New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), looked positively ecstatic. Grinning widely, Do pumped his fist to the ...