Brooklyn Paper ‘We need help. We need it now’: Pols issue joint call for government assistance with migrant crisis
Migrant Crisis Housing migrants at Floyd Bennett Field? Federal government says not so fast Posted on August 14, 2023
Housing Skyrocketing eviction rates in New York City prompt Legal Aid Society to again call for ‘Good Cause’ legislation Posted on August 12, 2023
Brooklyn Paper Firefighters battle all-hands blaze at East Flatbush apartment building with history of safety issues
LIC Post Four-star hotel in Long Island City being converted into shelter for economic migrants: sources
Migrant Crisis Mayor says migrant crisis could cost city up to $12B by summer 2025 Posted on August 9, 2023
Migrant Crisis Williams says new Randall’s Island migrant shelter is ‘best of bad options’ for city Posted on August 8, 2023
Migrant Crisis Adams admin is erecting migrant shelter on Randall’s Island, less than a year after tearing the last one down Posted on August 7, 2023
Migrant Crisis Labor, advocacy groups pen letter calling on feds for migrant work permits Posted on August 7, 2023
Politics Legal Aid threatens to sue city after migrants left to sleep outside over the weekend Posted on July 31, 2023
QNS Eastern Queens elected officials host rally against incoming asylum-seeker tent shelter at Creedmoor
Migrant Crisis New migrant mega-shelter coming to Creedmoor psych center in Queens despite protests of local pols: Mayor Posted on July 26, 2023
Migrant Crisis Mayor Adams says there’s ‘no guarantee’ of new shelter placements for migrants booted under new 60-day limit Posted on July 24, 2023
Migrant Crisis City to start limiting homeless shelter stays for single adult migrants to 60 days: Mayor Posted on July 19, 2023
Brooklyn Paper Hochul announces financial incentive for Gowanus affordable housing developers in lieu of 421-a
QNS City housing asylum seekers at the Aqueduct Racetrack is now ‘off the table,’ Queens councilwoman says
Politics OVERRIDDEN: City Council reverses Mayor Adams’ veto of housing voucher expansion bills Posted on July 13, 2023
Housing Activists raise concerns over NYCHA plan to demolish Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, fear tenant displacement Posted on July 13, 2023
Housing Mayor Adams floats legal challenge if Council overrides his veto and passes housing voucher bills Posted on July 11, 2023
Business New leaders at NYCHA: Mayor Adams taps Jamie Rubin as chair, Lisa Bova-Hiatt as CEO of embattled authority Posted on July 6, 2023
Politics What the Rent Guidelines Board’s approved rent increase means for NYC tenants Posted on June 22, 2023
Migrant Crisis ‘Performatory and dangerous’: City Emergency Management commish Iscol slams City Council bill on right-to-shelter for makeshift migrant housing Posted on June 21, 2023
Chelsea NYCHA set to tear down, rebuild Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in historic Manhattan public housing deal Posted on June 21, 2023
Politics Rent Guidelines Board final vote Wednesday, stabilized tenants face significant hikes Posted on June 20, 2023
Migrant Crisis Mayor unveils new center to help migrants apply for asylum, gives $5M to legal service providers Posted on June 20, 2023
Migrant Crisis Counties outside New York City housing just 1% of migrants in city’s care, officials say Posted on June 14, 2023
City Living Down and out in the East Village: Disabled homeless man’s tale of woe after being offered shelter with limited access Posted on June 14, 2023
Migrant Crisis Two new migrant relief centers coming to Upper West Side college dorm buildings Posted on June 12, 2023
Politics Albany housing deal falls apart as Heastie, Stewart-Cousins say they can’t reach agreement with Hochul Posted on June 8, 2023
Migrant Crisis Schumer, Jeffries secure nearly $105M to help cover cost of NYC’s migrant crisis Posted on June 7, 2023
Politics Pushing the prez: Cadre of New York pols urge Biden to expedite migrant work permits in letter Posted on June 6, 2023
Politics Snapshot into the migrant crisis: New survey from Make the Road New York says migrants lack basic needs Posted on June 6, 2023
Migrant Crisis Mayor Adams says he’s looking to house migrants at Gracie Mansion Posted on June 6, 2023
Migrant Crisis Having faith: NYC reaches out to local churches to shelter nearly 1,000 migrants in new partnership Posted on June 5, 2023
Housing Health Department let NYCHA cover up lead paint hazards even after child was hospitalized: lawsuit Posted on June 4, 2023
Politics Hundreds of migrants evacuated from repurposed Harlem jail due to plumbing issue Posted on June 4, 2023
Migrant Crisis 500 cots in place as City readies to convert JFK mail warehouse to migrant shelter Posted on June 1, 2023
Migrant Crisis Advocates pen letter blasting Mayor Adams’ legal motion to suspend right-to-shelter Posted on May 30, 2023
Politics FIRST ON amNY | Maria Torres-Springer appointed deputy mayor of housing, economic development, workforce Posted on May 30, 2023
Environment The heaviest of loads: New York slowly sinking under the weight of its buildings and infrastructure, report finds Posted on May 29, 2023
Housing State clears way for city to use shuttered Harlem prison as temporary migrant shelter Posted on May 26, 2023
Today, 8 am THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim’s Films MAY 15 – MAY 27, 2025 The Museum of Modern Art
May 22, noon Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Nasty Women of Fidi Walking Tour Shrine to Elizabeth Ann Seton
May 23, 7 pm Speakeasy, Die Softly: Immersive Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at Carmine’s Carmine’s Italian Restaurant – Times Square
Bronx Times Bronx man sentenced to 20 years for fatal strangling of girlfriend during 2023 domestic dispute
Brooklyn Paper Temporary Carroll Gardens Library to open in ‘underutilized’ Community Board 6 office space this summer