The NYPD has embraced Facebook and Twitter to investigate alleged gangs — but will the evidence hold up in court? ⧸ Full Story

New York set to get neighborhood-level maps of incidents reported to police — though many details, including the level of NYPD cooperation, remain to be determined ⧸ Full Story

New York's chief judge calls for unshackling more defendants from jail while they await trial. But are local governments committed to buying their freedom? ⧸ Full Story

Hundreds of Rikers Island inmates are in solitary confinement, under conditions that can cause serious psychological deterioration. Rasaun Bullock's torments during 49 months in the hole cost him his right to a speedy trial. ⧸ Full Story

New and improved statistics from City Hall reveal fresh details about how the city works — from jail violence to your chances of surviving cardiac arrest ⧸ Full Story

Bayview Correctional Facility evacuated after Sandy and is now slated for shutdown — leaving inmates without programs that help them break free ⧸ Full Story

How does a plunging New York City murder rate look from a global perspective? We chart the numbers by neighborhood - from Libya to Poland to Vietnam. ⧸ Full Story

Rikers Island is home to a surge of mentally ill inmates, hundreds of them assigned to live in isolation. Did the city miss a chance for better treatment? ⧸ Full Story

Grassroots organizations offer well-grounded alternatives for donors looking to help storm-stricken communities ⧸ Full Story

When Congress repeatedly stalled a study to shore up the Rockaways’ beaches, a local electrician decided his community couldn’t afford to wait for action any longer ⧸ Full Story

Past natural disasters suggest a post-hurricane lull may be the calm before a second storm: a coming spike in crime ⧸ Full Story

At the Park Slope armory, volunteers care for hundreds of people with special needs displaced from the Rockaways by Sandy ⧸ Full Story

Six days after the storm, aid begins to trick in from Sikh temples, van lines and kids running up and down high-rises ⧸ Full Story

What New York City can learn from from its history of fictional destruction and resurrection ⧸ Full Story

Staff stayed in deluge overnight to ensure safety of inhabitants, including orphaned calf Mitik ⧸ Full Story

Relief agency must coordinate regional relief efforts from storm-locked Manhattan ⧸ Full Story

Dollar vans roll through Flatbush past open stores, carrying passengers who've 'seen a lot of hurricanes" ⧸ Full Story

The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long? ⧸ Full Story

At public hearings, New York State seeks to end licenses for nuclear plant supplying much of the city's electricity ⧸ Full Story

In which we navigate the multiple databases used by New York City courts and update our summonses map to include data from community courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan ⧸ Full Story