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Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [1] [2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [3] that contains New York City's largest jail. [4] [5]Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
South Brother Island (East River) Pelham Islands, historical name for a group of mostly uninhabited islands in western Long Island Sound. The Blauzes; Chimney Sweeps Islands; City Island, only inhabited island in the borough; Hart Island; High Island; Rat Island; Rikers Island (East River), location of New York City's jail
Technically, Rikers Island is in the Bronx since New York City took it over from Long Island City in 1884, after it had annexed the South Bronx but before it consolidated Queens. However, like Astoria Heights, Rikers Island gets its mail from the East Elmhurst ( ZIP Code 11370) station of the Flushing Post Office.
Anna M. Kross Center; Arthur Kill Correctional Facility; Bayview Correctional Facility; Benjamin Ward Visit Center; Bridewell (New York City jail) Brooklyn Detention Complex
Rikers Island Bridge (officially named Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge) is a girder bridge that connects Rikers Island in the borough of the Bronx with the borough of Queens in New York City. The bridge begins in the Ditmars Steinway area in Astoria, Queens , near the intersection of Hazen Street and 19th Avenue, and continues to the south ...
A federal judge ruled that New York City was in violation of 18 different provisions of a court-enforced plan to clean up the infamous Rikers Island jail complex.
Two high-ranking federal immigration officials on Thursday backed a new call to reopen an ICE office at Rikers Island that was shut down by City Hall in 2015. ... Google parent Alphabet plans $75 ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...