Editorial

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  February 20, 2026 Dwell

  Is Dignified Jail Design Even Possible?

  New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.

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  February 18, 2026 Center for NYC Affairs

  ‘Take a Leap of Faith And Build Your Wings On the Way Down’: What I Owe Stanley Richards

  In the unforgiving environment of New York City’s notorious correction facility on Rikers Island, I spent a transformative year, from 2009 to 2010, navigating the turbulent waters of incarceration.

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  December 17, 2025 Columbia Neighbors

  Year in Review: Top ‘Columbia Neighbors’ Stories of 2025

  Check out this roundup of reader favorites from 2025.

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  December 11, 2025 Amsterdam News

  How Harlemite Helen Taylor became an NYC champion for supportive housing

  “My new life is going to cost me my old one,” recited Harlemite Helen Taylor in a poem she wrote about moving on.

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  December 15, 2025 The Imprint

  Why is New York City So Safe? And What Can That Tell us About Achieving Safety Elsewhere?

  Over the past three decades, New York City has witnessed its crime and incarceration rates plummet to depths unthinkable in the crime and incarceration-ridden days of my youth growing up in Brooklyn.

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  December 05, 2025 McGill

  Internship Spotlight: Alexander Harshbarger – The Fortune Society

  I chose my internship at the Fortune Society in New York City because of my deep interest in law and commitment to justice reform.

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