Mayoral hopeful and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that he would seek to keep Rikers Island open as mayor, bucking a 2019 law requiring the jail complex to close and be replaced with four borough-based jails by 2027.
Cuomo, running for mayor as an independent after losing the Democratic primary in June, revealed during a Crain’s New York Business mayoral forum on Wednesday that he wants to replace the crumbling facilities on Rikers with new “state-of-the-art jails.”
