City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced a major new step in the contentious effort to close Rikers Island — marking the latest development in the decades-old push to shutter the notorious jail complex.
As doubts and infighting run rampant among various stakeholders, Speaker Adams announced Friday the creation of the Independent Rikers Commission 2.0 to lay out an updated roadmap for closing the jail facility, which will help overcome the obstacles toward shuttering Rikers by the August 2027 deadline mandated by the first iteration of the commission.
