Queens Daily Eagle

“Darren Mack, the co-director of the criminal justice advocacy group Freedom Agenda, blasted the mayor for his 11th-hour pitch on Tuesday. "New Yorkers have been consistently calling on the mayor to fund our city's mental health infrastructure to scale... now he has an idea to basically recreate the asylums that were shut down decades ago, and conveniently impede closing Rikers in the process?"

Gay City News

“’Being recognized by Gay City News is incredibly important and validating because [there have] been so many ups and downs [since COVID-19],’ said Amy Leipziger, the Project Director for the Free to Be Youth Project.”

The City

“The isolation and deprivation of Rikers is designed to feed a cycle of violence, not interrupt it,” Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, told THE CITY.

The City

“The isolation and deprivation of Rikers is designed to feed a cycle of violence, not interrupt it,” Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, told THE CITY. “If we want safer communities, we can’t achieve that by sending people to fight for their lives on an out-of-site, out-of-mind penal colony.”

Gay City News

"Adam [is] a young transgender man that came to us because his food stamps had been erroneously cut off, leaving him few options to support himself. Had we not stepped in, he would have had difficulty obtaining food sufficient to survive on.”

NY Daily News

“Darren Mack, co-founder of...Freedom Agenda questioned Goldsmith’s claim that judges don’t decide where defendants are placed. “Judges know where they’re sending the people they remand or set bail on, and they know what’s likely to happen to the people they send to Rikers.”

Nashville Scene

“Free to Be Youth, a legal services program for low-income and homeless LGBTQ youth in New York City, is partnering with Nashville’s Oasis Center to send care packages to youth in need.”

New Amsterdam News

"Mohamed Attia, managing director at the Street Vendor Project, said that while DSNY’s enforcement already exists elsewhere, the ballot measure greenlights agency deployment against vendors in city parks.”

NY Times

"The Safety Net Project's... lawsuit accuses the city of routinely violating its own policy on cleanups, which says the city must offer to store certain types of confiscated property for up to 90 days and give the owner a voucher to claim it.”