New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a more humane approach to a practice he previously criticized. Mamdani paused ...
Recent New York City government statistics show that the city’s total homeless shelter population on any given night is between 82,000 and 86,000, including adults and children. The number of children ...
A growing number of homeless New Yorkers are finding themselves in court after police caught them taking up more than one seat on public transit or lying on the floor of a station in recent months.
Fights, assaults and deaths have long plagued the Tillary Street Women’s Shelter in Downtown Brooklyn. Emergencies have only surged in recent years.
Protests unfolded again Monday in Brooklyn after demonstrators took to the streets in opposition to a proposed men's homeless shelter. The battle in Bensonhurst has been brewing for years. Sunday ...
Bruce Blakeman, the GOP gubernatorial candidate, and Saritha Komatireddy, the Republican candidate for New York Attorney General, rallied in Bensonhurst against opponents Governor Kathy Hochul and New ...
City Councilmember Crystal Hudson says the investigation shows why homeless people sometimes choose to sleep on the streets rather than indoors.
BENSONHURT, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Community members are pushing back on a plan to build a homeless shelter in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. New York City Councilwoman Susan Zhuang says an elderly woman suffered ...
A long-standing homeless encampment under a Belt Parkway overpass in Sheepshead Bay was cleared by city agencies last month ...
Suleiman Rifai provides counseling and daily guidance to homeless men in East New York. He says his experience of becoming ...
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a Manhattan elitist who is failing the outer boroughs during a Sunday rally at the site of a planned Brooklyn homeless shelter ...
Federal authorities have arrested four people in connection with an investigation into a Brooklyn nonprofit that received lucrative city contracts to open homeless shelters in New York City, a person ...