Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( tuesday, october 5 rikers [Dispatch From Rikers Island: ‘It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There’]( Detainees, correction officers, and officials talk about the new state of emergency. Photo: ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE NUÑEZ INDEPENDENT MONITOR New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has long been a dysfunctional, violent place. But 2021 has been particularly bloody. So far, 12 detainees have died there, at least five of them by suicide. There were 39 stabbings and slashings in August, compared with seven last August, according to a late-September status report by court-appointed federal monitors. The monitors, appointed in the settlement of Nuñez v. City of New York, a 2011 class-action suit filed by Rikers detainees, have described the situation as “nothing short of an emergency.” That “emergency” is marked by “violence among incarcerated people, violence at the hands of staff, and violence toward staff, in addition to a disturbing rise in self-harming behavior.” The status report also cites “failures to properly secure doors on cells, vestibules and control stations.” [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [The Academy Museum’s Orb Is Like When the Trailer Is Better Than the Movie Bursting Renzo Piano’s big L.A. bubble.]( By Justin Davidson and Alissa Walker [Plane vs. Bird: The Dark Side of Human-Aviation Relations The surprising insights of an FAA manual on wildlife management.]( [Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square The anti-vaccine-mandate protest went from the Department of Education to the Australian Consulate.]( By Choire Sicha [An Urbane Connecticut Farmhouse The architecture firm Husband Wife’s clients didn’t want their country house to be too country.]( By Wendy Goodman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman and the [Listings Edit newsletter](, a digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved