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The Q101R, meanwhile, was created in the 1980s to replace the Q101 service to Rikers Island, and originally ran non-stop between 21st Street–Queensbridge and Rikers Island. From 2005 to 2006, the routes were taken over by MTA Regional Bus Operations under the MTA Bus Company brand, and relabeled to their current designations in 2008.
Rikers Island consists mainly of men’s jail facilities that house around 6,000 people. Child-friendly exhibits will be added to those facilities over the next year, the museum said in a statement.
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).
Sources said the newfound chums devoted “quite a bit” of talk to reopening the Rikers ICE office — which closed after a 2014 sanctuary city law signed by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
On Wednesday, Holden said a necessary starting point is to reestablish a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers Island, which was shut down by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2015.
The 26th United States Colored Infantry, also called the 26th New York Infantry (Colored) was an African American infantry regiment, one of three colored troop units from the state of New York, 1 that fought in the American Civil War. The unit was organized on Riker's Island in February 1864 by the Union League Club of New York.
A federal judge has ordered New York City to draft plans to hand over management of its Rikers Island jail complex to a third-party receiver after holding the city's Department of Corrections (DOC ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of New York City. ... Rikers Island (7 P) Roosevelt Island (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Islands of the East ...