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2. Rikers Island - Wikipedia

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   Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [1] [2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [3] that contains New York City's largest jail. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).

3. Northeast Airlines Flight 823 - Wikipedia

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   Survivors. 81. Northeast Airlines Flight 823 was a scheduled flight from New York City 's LaGuardia Airport to Miami International Airport, Florida, which crashed shortly after takeoff on February 1, 1957. The aircraft operating the service was a Douglas DC-6 four-engined propeller airliner, registration N34954, [1] which entered service in 1955.

4. Jonathan Frakes - Wikipedia

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   2. Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, voiced David Xanatos in the Disney television ...

5. Rikers Island, one of America's most notorious jails, is now ...

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   Rikers Island, a 413-acre island in the East River between Queens and the Bronx, houses an estimated 6,000 inmates, the majority of which are awaiting trial and have not been convicted of a crime ...

6. Shuttered Rikers Island jail had secret lounge, stashes of ...

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   Inside a shuttered Rikers Island jail, city investigators in November 2020 discovered a secret lounge with leather couches and a giant TV screen, caches of Correction Department equipment ...

7. 25 Hours in a Cell: Rikers Island Is Worse Than You Think - AOL

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   Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyEarly Saturday morning, 28-year-old Erick Tavira died by apparent suicide in his cell while awaiting trial inside the sprawling jail ...

8. North and South Brother Islands (New York City) - Wikipedia

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   The Bronx. North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City 's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once the site of the Riverside Hospital for quarantinable diseases but is now uninhabited. [1] The islands had long been privately owned, but was purchased by the ...

9. NYC’s Rikers Island jail opens kid-friendly visitation room ...

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   Rikers Island consists mainly of men’s jail facilities that house around 6,000 people. Child-friendly exhibits will be added to those facilities over the next year, the museum said in a statement.