The City Council’s “Common Sense Caucus” toured Rikers Island on Tuesday, where they touted supposed improvements to the notorious detention complex standing in direct contrast to a daming recent report from a federal watchdog that sharply criticized the conditions at the facility.
Police said a 29-year-old man from Pelham Parkway has been arrested on hate crime and other charges for tossing a brick through the window of his neighbor's building during the Passover holiday on April 7.