By Charles Lane and Jessica Gould | February 21, 2024 | Gothamist New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that he was canceling an expected third round of agency spending cuts and allowing agencies to restart some hiring — a move he said was possible due to higher-than-anticipated tax revenues and additional cuts to migrant-related spending. […]
Migrants sleep in makeshift shelters overnight outside the St. Brigid reticketing site in the East Village, Dec. 11, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 16, 2024 Nearly a thousand migrants waiting for a new shelter cot spent a recent night on the streets or in trains, according to an internal poll conducted by […]
Dozens of migrants waited in the cold outside the St. Brigid re-ticketing site in the East Village, Nov. 28, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 14, 2024 The Adams administration intends to close by Feb. 26 the five overnight waiting rooms where hundreds of adult migrants have spent nights on the floor or in […]
Editorial credit: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 New York, NY — A recent article in The New York Times highlights how New Yorkers are helping migrant families find housing and ensuring their children have access to basic needs. New Yorkers understand the mutual benefits behind helping migrants and that if the state wants […]
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is supporting a plan approved earlier this month by the state’s Civil Service Commission that could help fill many of the roughly 10,000 unfilled positions within state agencies. The effort would speed up the process for both qualified New Yorkers and new migrants who have legal permission to work to apply for state […]
Karolynn Diaz, left, and Alejandro Arango return to the Row Hotel after their 60-day evictions, trying to reclaim items the hotel staff said would be stored, Jan. 31, 2024. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 2, 2024 After nine days waiting at the Roosevelt Hotel migrant intake center to get placed in a new […]
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 19, 2024 | Documented The migrant men lay their blankets on the wood floor, where they would spend the night. Many had not been able to shower in more than a week. Others said they felt sick as their coughs echoed through the room. The recent snowstorm added […]
Editorial credit: Mircea Moira / Shutterstock.com By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 17, 2024 |Documented As snow fell on New York City Tuesday morning, dozens of migrants continued to wait outside the city’s reticketing center at the now-closed St. Brigid’s Catholic School on East 7th Street in below freezing temperatures. They wore beanies, […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Tim Balk, Evan Simko-Bednarski, and Tea Kvetenadze | NY Daily News ALBANY — Gov. Hochul on Tuesday proposed a $233 billion budget that would include about $2.4 billion for the city’s migrant crisis, vowing not to raise taxes but declaring that the state “must support the City of New York in this […]
Migrant families prepare to leave the Roosevelt Hotel shelter after receiving their 60-day notices, Jan. 16, 2024. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | January 17, 2024 Pregnant migrants in their third trimester and women with newborn babies will get a reprieve from shelter evictions until their babies turn six months old, city officials told THE […]