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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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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

They Escaped Chinese Government Repression. Now They’re Im

When Yuxiu Zhou crossed the U.S. and Mexico border with his teenage son last October after a month-long zigzagging trip from China, he believed all his nightmares were behind him. The corrupt local government officials in his home villag ... Read more

City Investigators Probe Eric Adams Protege Jesse Hamilton a

The city Department of Investigation (DOI) is looking into the actions of a longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams whom the mayor put in charge of city leases, including a last-minute decision to rent space from a big donor to the mayor’ ... Read more

CUNY Chancellor Boasts Enrollment Growth in ‘State of the University’ Address

Published Nov 20, 2024 10:12PM

CUNY chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez on Wednesday laid out a roadmap for expanding the university in the year ahead while reflecting on the enrollment growth at the 25-school system over the last year. At a state of the university address at the City College of Technology Wednesday, Matos Rodríguez pointed out that university-wide enrollment is […]
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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

How Parking Will Drive the Coming Adams-Council Housing Deve

Parking has emerged as a central focus of negotiations on Mayor Eric Adams’ sweeping package of proposed development reforms ahead of a crucial City Council committee vote Thursday. The City of Yes for Housing Affordability proposal, which a ... Read more

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption,

The New York City Housing Authority did little to follow up on apartment repairs by hired vendors and in dozens of cases could not provide evidence that the work they paid for had actually been done, the city comptroller alleged Wednesday. The ... Read more

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