NEW YORK — On a mid-September day in 2008, Marvin Mayfield, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, discovered a part of the borough he had never seen. The revelation came while he was being taken off a ...
NEW YORK — Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn't until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating ...
A decommissioned barge that once served as a “floating jail” nicknamed “the Boat” will be removed from its current location on the Bronx waterfront to make way for a new marine cargo terminal that New ...
City leaders, members of the clergy and activists want to dry-dock a floating jail off the South Bronx once and for all. They rallied Thursday to demand the closure of the Vernon Bain Correctional ...