Kathy Hochul. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Greg B. Smith | October 11, 2023 Mayor Eric Adams has asked a judge to let him suspend the city’s 42-year-old obligation to provide a bed to anyone who requests it, as migrants overwhelm the city’s shelter system. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday enthusiastically embraced New York City’s request […]
Editorial credit: Twin Design / Shutterstock.com New Legislation Would Limit Social Media Features Harmful to Teen Mental Health, Prevent Collection of Children’s Personal Data Legislation Comes as Mental Health Issues Among Vulnerable Teens Have Doubled in Recent Years NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, Governor Kathy Hochul, State Senator Andrew Gounardes, and […]
Rudely Brito. Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan and Haidee Chu | October 8, 2023 Around a dozen migrant families desperate to move out of a Staten Island shelter said they were scammed out of thousands of dollars by an employee of the shelter, who promised them leases and furniture in newly renovated apartments, THE […]
By Edgar Ayala | Oct 7, 2023 A “soft coup” is underway in Guatemala, where the sitting leader is conspiring behind the scenes to prevent the transition of power to the rightful winner of the last election. You don’t see the army on the streets, and there are no speeches being delivered by a military […]
The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn Addresses Dual Crises of Housing and Public Health Through Data-Driven Land Use, Policy, and Budgetary Recommendations Almost Every Major City in the World Has a Plan to Guide Growth and Development – Except New York City BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso today released “The Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn,” a […]
HELP ran an intake center in East New York for single women entering the homeless shelter system, Oct. 3, 2023. Alex Krales/THE CITY By Greg B. Smith and Gwynne Hogan | October 3, 2023 The revised plea from City Hall would suspend the decree under more tailored circumstances, but advocates say it still amounts to […]
Editorial credit: quiggyt4 / Shutterstock.com By Alex Zimmerman | October 3, 2023 New York City botched its communication to schools in response to last week’s record rainfall, Chancellor David Banks acknowledged on Tuesday. He vowed to conduct a review of what went wrong. Hours after the school day began last Friday, Mayor Eric Adams and […]
By Amir Khafagy | October 2, 2023 The National Labor Relations Board unrolled several new policies to safeguard the rights of undocumented workers organizing their workplaces. In February, a slim majority of the workers at Lodi, the upscale Italian restaurant in Rockefeller Center founded by the Uruguayan-born chef Ignacio Mattos, whose menu includes a single […]
School buses. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Michael Elsen-Rooney, Amy Zimmer, Alex Zimmerman, and Chalkbeat | October 2, 2023 The first time many school administrators heard about a shelter-in-place directive was when a top Education Department official emailed at 1:56 p.m.to tell them it “has been lifted.” As flood waters rose Friday in many parts of […]
By Clayton Guse | October 1, 2023 A top advisor to Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday called for the federal government to “close the borders” in order to prevent more migrants from coming to New York City. “We need the federal government, the Congress members, the Senate and the president to do its job: close […]