The Ship That Slammed Into the Brooklyn Bridge Has Been Repaired

The Cuauhtémoc, a Mexican Navy training vessel, is expected to leave New York after four months in a Staten Island shipyard.

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N.Y.C. Jail Official Broke Sanctuary Laws by Helping D.H.S., Report Says

A Department of Correction investigator improperly provided information to federal agents about two immigrants, a city watchdog agency found.

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Some Rikers Detainees Are Illegally Isolated, Lawsuit Says

A lawsuit claims that two areas in the New York City jail are designed so that detainees are effectively in solitary confinement, in violation of state law.

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‘Gridlock Sam’ Gives Back

Samuel Schwartz, a former city transportation official and longtime columnist writing about New York traffic, is donating $1 million to start a transportation research center at Hunter College.

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Detainee Dies at Rikers, the Fifth Fatality in 2 Weeks in N.Y.C. Lockups

The authorities said the man had a seizure. The previous death, of a pedicab driver held in a precinct cell, has been ruled a suicide.

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Taxi Driver Runs Over Man Who Once Escaped Custody on a City Bus

James Mossetty was dragged for 10 blocks by the taxi, whose driver was arraigned on charges that he left the scene.

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N.Y.C. Man Is at Least Fourth Person to Die in Custody in Just Over a Week

A Turkish-born pedicab driver who was arrested on Friday night was found unconscious and unresponsive in a police station house cell. He later died at Bellevue Hospital.

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Rikers Detainee Becomes Third Person to Die in N.Y.C. Custody in a Week

Days before the death of the man, Jimmy Avila, another detainee was pronounced dead in his cell at the troubled city jail complex, and a third died in police custody.

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A Lawyer Was Wrongly Charged With Bringing Drug-Laced Papers Into Rikers

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the papers again.

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Public Defender Is Charged With Smuggling THC-Laced Paper Into Rikers

Bernardo Caceres was at New York City’s jail complex to meet with a client when an envelope he had drew the attention of a Correction Department dog, officials said.

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