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City evacuates migrants from Floyd Bennett Field before impending major storm

Posted on January 9, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams threatens lawsuit over housing voucher law

Politics

Housing voucher lawsuit? Speaker Adams threatens to take mayor’s team to court if it doesn’t move forward with new law

Posted on January 9, 2024

Mayor Adams speaks about migrant shelter limit

Politics

Mayor Adams insists 60-day migrant shelter limits won’t kick families to the curb, but critics say policy is ‘cruel’

Posted on January 8, 2024

Far right and left activists confront each other at Lower Manhattan migrant rally

Politics

Lower Manhattan rally to stop migrant shelter limits crashed by far-right activists

Posted on January 8, 2024

Migrants in East Village

Tales of survival: Migrants in East Village struggle to find relief while waiting in the cold on endless lines

Posted on January 7, 2024

Security guard at Randall's Island migrant shelter

Suspect charged for fatal stabbing of migrant at Randall’s Island shelter

Posted on January 7, 2024

Rowhouses in wealthier area of New York City amid housing crisis

Politics

Housing crisis: Mayor Adams pitches plan to build more mixed-income homes in wealthier NYC neighborhoods

Posted on December 26, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Destructive Greenpoint fire caused by food left on stove, apartment building was in foreclosure at time of blaze

Local leaders break ground on the affordable housing development, which marks the beginning of “Phase One” of the plan to transform Willets Point.

Housing

City breaks ground on massive affordable housing development at Willets Point in Queens

Posted on December 20, 2023

Migrants facing eviction at NYC shelters at the worst possible time of the year

Posted on December 16, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams announces that Nostrand Houses is the first NYCHA development to join the "Preservation Trust."

Politics

Nostrand Houses becomes first NYCHA campus to join ‘Preservation Trust’: Adams

Posted on December 15, 2023

Homeless for the holidays: East Village residents weep after construction kicks them to the curb

Posted on December 15, 2023

Year-over-year rental prices have fallen in Manhattan for the first time in over 27 months.

Housing

Manhattan rent prices fall for the first time in over 2 years

Posted on December 14, 2023

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on Wednesday released his annual list of the “worst landlords” in New York City.

Politics

‘Worst Landlords’ in NYC: Inside a Hell’s Kitchen apartment house on list for squalor and neglect

Posted on December 13, 2023

Mayor Adams signs housing target bill

Politics

Mayor Adams inks bill to set housing growth targets for every NYC neighborhood

Posted on December 13, 2023

Business

‘Green Fast Track’ lets NYC developers streamline some eco-friendly housing construction: Adams

Posted on December 11, 2023

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QNS

Hochul unveils master plan to bring 2,800 housing units to Creedmoor campus in eastern Queens

Lower Manhattan

Housing advocates rally in Lower Manhattan to defend city’s right-to-shelter law

Posted on December 6, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams

Politics

Adams says he hasn’t met with Biden for nearly a year as he prepares for another DC trip

Posted on December 5, 2023

‘Please leave us alone’: East Village homeless say surprise encampment sweeps are becoming more violent

Posted on December 5, 2023

Comptroller Brad Lander

Politics

Comptroller Lander revokes city’s prior approval for striking emergency migrant crisis contracts

Posted on December 5, 2023

The Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA), an advocacy organization representing FDNY firefighters decried on Monday Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cuts they say will affect some of the city's busiest stationhouses.

Politics

‘This can be the difference between life and death’: Firefighters union condemns Mayor Adams’ FDNY budget cuts

Posted on December 4, 2023

Two new developments of the Peninsula project in Hunts Point will bring 359 fully affordable units to the area.

Bronx Times

Second phase of the Peninsula housing project breaks ground in Hunts Point

Homeless individual on subway bench

Politics

FIRST ON amNY | Mayor Adams expected to report increased homeless shelter placements

Posted on November 29, 2023

Politics

Migrant crisis | Mayor Adams wants to slash asylum-seeker services by 20% to close budget gap

Posted on November 20, 2023

Brooklyn apartment buildings

Housing

City launches revamp of website that provides details about tens of thousands of apartments

Posted on November 17, 2023

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Politics

Migrants, advocates hold ‘sleep in’ outside of Gracie Mansion in protest of mayor’s limits on shelter stays

Posted on November 16, 2023

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

Politics

City Council passes bill that calls on affluent neighborhoods to build more housing

Posted on November 15, 2023

Security guards posted at the Floyd Bennett site to ensure unauthorized visitors do not gain access to the HERRC.

Politics

Despite long journeys to NYC, some migrant families reject emergency shelter at Floyd Bennett Field

Posted on November 13, 2023

Migrants sleeping on a bus

Op-Ed

Op-ed | How we deal with the ongoing asylum-seeker crisis is a test of who we are as New Yorkers and Americans

Posted on November 6, 2023

Migrants at Roosevelt Hotel

Tales of survival: NYC migrants face bureaucratic challenges to gain work visas after a long journey to America

Posted on November 5, 2023

Politics

Adams suddenly pulls out of planned D.C. meetings on migrant crisis

Posted on November 2, 2023

Eric Adams

Politics

‘Right to sleep’? Public Advocate Williams, City Council chide Mayor Adams for ‘scapegoating’ homeless rights law

Posted on October 31, 2023

Floyd Bennett Field HERRC prepares to open for migrant families

Brooklyn

‘Doing the best with a bad situation’: Floyd Bennett Field HERRC prepares to open for migrant families

Posted on October 30, 2023

migrant crisis and El Salvador and New York

Brooklyn

Tales of survival: Migrant mother from El Salvador forges ahead in New York while husband and son remain incarcerated at Texas border

Posted on October 29, 2023

Migrants were left on the sidewalk for days outside the Roosevelt Hotel as the city scrambled to find accommodations.

Migrant crisis | NYC on track to spend over $12 billion on asylum seeker programs, state comptroller says

Posted on October 28, 2023

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Politics

Mayor Adams floats faith-based solution for managing influx of new migrants

Posted on October 25, 2023

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Politics

Migrant crisis | Mayor Adams says city is preparing to ‘manage’ scores of migrants sleeping on streets

Posted on October 24, 2023

Brooklyn

Brooklyn cops help homeless couple deliver baby on the side of Ocean Parkway

Posted on October 24, 2023

Kathy Hochul

Housing

New laws aim to help build, maintain affordable housing in NYC

Posted on October 23, 2023

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Politics

Adams admin looking to expand 30-day migrant shelter cap for single adults to DHS-run facilities: official

Posted on October 23, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Double Domino towers rising on Williamsburg waterfront will mix condos, rentals

Migrants at Roosevelt Hotel

Politics

City and state to enter mediation on right-to-shelter policy with Legal Aid

Posted on October 19, 2023

Politics

Legal Aid blasts Hochul for supporting Adams’ attempt to roll back shelter mandate

Posted on October 18, 2023

Queens

Tales of survival: NYC migrants who braved violence and perilous treks grateful for fresh start in America

Posted on October 18, 2023

Police raid migrant-run market on Randall's Island

Illegal migrant-run market on Randall’s Island busted, cops confiscate scooters near emergency shelter

Posted on October 17, 2023

Politics

Migrant crisis | Amid criticism, Mayor Adams insists 60-day shelter limit won’t force kids to change schools

Posted on October 17, 2023

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Politics

Mayor officially limits shelter stays for migrant families with children to 60 days

Posted on October 16, 2023

More from around NYC

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Op-ed: Supporting local businesses is key to strengthening the Bronx

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Wells Fargo opens first Queens branch in Little Neck

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Serving up hope: Local leaders and orgs give back with turkey giveaways ahead of Thanksgiving

Advocates carry the banner at the 32nd Out of the Darkness World AIDS Day candlelight vigil in 2023.

World AIDS Day events planned in New York City