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City Hall Moves to Wind Down Separate Shelter System for Migrants

Published Nov 22, 2024 10:00AM

City Hall Moves to Wind Down Separate Shelter System for Migrants

City Hall is moving to return control of all shelter operations to the Department of Homeless Services by June of 2026, THE CITY has learned, including those housing asylum-seeking immigrants. The plan comes after two years of operating an ad hoc “shadow system” of separate shelters for migrants often under the auspices of agencies other […]
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Plan for City’s First Public Celestial Observatory Comes C

A city known for producing stars just lost a project to let New Yorkers see them. The Amateur Astronomy Association, a nonprofit volunteer group, will no longer be following through on its plan, announced in January, to bring the city’ ... Read more

Suspension of Disbelief: Verrazzano Bridge Turns 60

What once was the longest suspension bridge in the world has now spanned six decades of New York City history. Thursday marks 60 years since drivers first paid a 50-cent toll to drive over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the towering 13,200-foo ... Read more

Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ Housing Agenda Ekes By Council Co

A sweeping zoning change pushed by the administration of Mayor Eric Adams and approved by key City Council committees Thursday is expected to accelerate housing construction and make a dent in the city’s housing crisis. Despite concess ... Read more

Mayor Adams Announces Budget Adds — and New Head of NYPD

Published Nov 20, 2024 07:50PM

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday unveiled a modified budget that includes funding for 1,600 new police officers and money for rental vouchers — and then introduced a new police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, in a surprise announcement. The November changes — an annual occurrence — are the latest update to the city’s fiscal year 2025 budget […]
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One in Six Children in Migrant Shelters With Time Limits Hav

About 1,000 children — or nearly 15% of the 7,600 kids living in migrant shelters whose families got notices to leave city shelters since the end of June — have left the public school system, representatives of the city’s Office of Asylu ... Read more

Rikers Island Shutdown Plan Progresses With Construction Fir

The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island took a major step forward after the Adams administration this month tapped two construction firms to build a new lockup in lower Manhattan — one of the final major outstanding contracts. ... Read more

LISTEN: The Mayor Meets the Donald at the Fights

Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul have been tight to this point but the two centrist Democratic executives seem to be taking different approaches to dealing publicly and perhaps also privately with Donald Trump, who the mayor just hung out with at t ... Read more

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