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Migrant families at NYC shelter

NYC will allow migrant families to remain in same shelter after expiration of 60-day limit: Mayor Adams

Posted on November 18, 2024

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NYC to end migrant debit card program as shelter numbers decline: Mayor Adams

Posted on November 8, 2024

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Times Square safe despite ‘Little Devils’ street gang activity, NYPD brass stresses in effort to dispel public fear

Posted on October 23, 2024

Lines of cots at the migrant tent city set up on Randall's Island

Politics

NYC to close mega Randall’s Island migrant shelter as new arrivals decline

Posted on October 9, 2024

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Affordable housing lottery at Staten Island’s new ‘Water’s Edge’ development offers studio apartments starting at $2,395 a month

Posted on September 3, 2024

NYPD raid Randall’s Island migrant shelter, confiscate dozens of mopeds hours after triple shooting

Posted on July 29, 2024

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Health

Measles outbreak at Brooklyn migrant shelter sickens two residents

Posted on July 13, 2024

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Politics

NYC is seeing fewer migrants since Biden border crackdown, Adams admin official says

Posted on July 9, 2024

Migrants outside Adams admin operated hotel

Politics

Adams admin seeks new vendors for migrant services contracts held by controversial DocGo

Posted on June 18, 2024

Midtown Manhattan

Hundreds of migrants protest in Times Square in protest of Biden’s border crackdown

Posted on June 7, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams joined a group of 40 mayors and county executives from across the country on Friday in penning a letter to President Biden asking for him to grant work permits to millions more migrants. Friday, May 24, 2024.

Politics

Adams joins group of 40 mayors, county executives in urging Biden to let more undocumented migrants work

Posted on May 24, 2024

Migrant sitting on grass near shelter in New York

Politics

From the border to the Big Apple: One migrant’s journey through hardship for asylum

Posted on May 21, 2024

City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks about migrant shelter limit report

Politics

Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

Posted on May 9, 2024

More than a thousand migrants gathered outside City Hall on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Politics

Migrants flood City Hall Park while City Council holds hearing on efforts to aid newcomers from Africa and Latin America

Posted on April 16, 2024

City Council announces strategy team to help migrants

Politics

City Council launches ‘strategy team’ to advance solutions to the migrant crisis

Posted on April 16, 2024

Migrants looking out window

Politics

NYC not renewing no-bid contract with controversial migrant services provider DocGo

Posted on April 10, 2024

Migrants in migrant crisis sitting outside makeshift shelter

Politics

Migrant crisis | NYC will start assessing next month which single adult asylum seekers can stay in shelter after 30 days

Posted on March 28, 2024

Mayor Adams shaking hands with constituents

Politics

‘Safety concerns’ from State Department led Mayor Adams to scrap southern border trip: admin

Posted on March 24, 2024

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Politics

Migrant crisis | Bus company slams brakes on sending asylum-seekers to NYC as Adams admin lawsuit moves forward

Posted on March 20, 2024

Mayor Adams speaks about migrant aid

‘It’s gonna be fine’: Mayor Adams shrugs off lack of more migrant aid in state lawmakers’ budget plans

Posted on March 12, 2024

Staten Island resident holds up sign at protest over migrant shelter

Politics

‘Bring back our seniors’: Staten Islanders angry over migrant shelter where residents displaced, safety issues remain

Posted on March 9, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at roundtable

Politics

Migrant crisis | Adams rebukes feds’ reported claim his admin hasn’t ‘stepped up to plate’ in collecting aid

Posted on March 5, 2024

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Midtown Manhattan

Midtown cop assault: Charges dropped against Jhoan Boada, identified as wrong man in outrageous attack

Posted on March 2, 2024

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Politics

Mayor denies connection between migrant discovery in Queens storefront and shelter limits

Posted on February 27, 2024

Guinea migrants in Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan

Guinea migrants in Manhattan raise awareness of plight seeking asylum: ‘We were persecuted in our country’

Posted on February 23, 2024

Suspect in Midtown cop attack at bail hearing

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown cop attack: No bail for latest teen arrested for heinous assault that outraged city

Posted on February 14, 2024

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Politics

Legal Aid sues to force Adams admin to enact housing voucher expansion laws

Posted on February 14, 2024

Suspects in Midtown cop assault

Midtown cop assault: Another teen arrested in infamous attack as released suspect gets booked for Queens shoplifting

Posted on February 14, 2024

Migrants leave NYC shelter

Politics

Migrant crisis | Two state pols introduce bill to block ‘arbitrary’ NYC shelter stay limits

Posted on February 12, 2024

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Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels condemned after member roughs up man on live TV, mistaking him for ‘migrant’

Posted on February 8, 2024

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‘A moving crisis’: Mayor Adams again appeals in Albany for state to pick up half of migrant care costs

Posted on February 6, 2024

Migrant crime ring member arrested and escorted into NYPD vehicle

Migrant crime ring members hit with more than 40 charges for drive-by thefts: NYPD

Posted on February 6, 2024

Migrants in New York

Politics

Mayor Adams defends pilot to fund migrant meals with prepaid debit cards after uproar from 50 Cent

Posted on February 5, 2024

NYC clergy leaders call for deportation of violent migrants

NYC clergy leaders demand deportation of violent migrants at City Hall rally

Posted on February 5, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

Midtown Manhattan

Two additional suspects booked in brutal Midtown cop attack

Posted on February 1, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

‘They should be sitting in Rikers right now,’ police brass lament release of migrants who attacked cops in Midtown over the weekend

Posted on January 31, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

Midtown Manhattan

Five migrants charged in violent Midtown beating of police officers; three suspects still wanted, cops say

Posted on January 31, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

Immigrants turn to selling snacks at Jay Street subway station while waiting on backlogged work permits

Migrants on line at East Village school

Residents decry ‘humanitarian crisis’ at East Village migrant shelter re-ticketing center

Posted on January 24, 2024

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Speaker Adams slams mayor’s 60-day shelter limit for migrant families as ‘cruel’ and ‘counterproductive’

Posted on January 22, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams’ $109B preliminary budget restores funding to some agencies, but still contains broad cuts

Posted on January 16, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed spending $2.4 billion on migrants.

Politics

Hochul proposes $2.4 billion to deal with migrant crisis in new budget vision

Posted on January 16, 2024

Migrants at respite center in Manhattan

Politics

Curfew to be imposed at four NYC migrant ‘respite centers,’ City Hall confirms

Posted on January 15, 2024

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Mayor partially restores police and fire budget cuts, brings migrant cost estimate down

Posted on January 10, 2024

Protesters rally against the mayor's plan to evict migrants from shelters after 60 days.

Politics

Migrant crisis: 70% of New Yorkers support ‘right-to-shelter’ mandate, poll finds

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Adams appears confident he’ll get more migrant help from Albany, even as Hochul barely mentions influx in annual speech

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Migrant murdered on Randall’s Island victim of group attack stemming from dispute over girlfriend: NYPD

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

Parents, pols to rally outside James Madison High School after Floyd Bennett Field migrant relocation forces students online

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Comptroller Brad Lander stands with NYCHA Tenant Association leaders to announce a new audit about oversight of vendors making repairs and doing maintenance.

Comptroller audit slams NYCHA over repairs, finds potential millions in wasteful spending

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Mayor Adams names Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner; Holden praises her as a ‘phenomenal choice’

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City employee arraigned in alleged $624K pension fraud case

At Corona Plaza in 2022, the faces of individuals lost too soon.

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