Chaudhry Yousaf does not typically carry his passport around Queens, but the Pakistani immigrant claims a doctor recently refused to treat his mentally-disabled son without the official document. Last week, he slapped the physician with a lawsuit.
A family of seven that lost its apartment to a fire just before the New Year has spent the last several weeks sleeping on friends’ couches as they challenge the city’s insistence that only two of the relatives qualify for temporary city shelter.
As temperatures dipped well below freezing, the city’s housing agency last Thursday received a record number of complaints from tenants shivering in their apartments.
Saying help from Albany is unlikely, Mayor Bloomberg turned the heat up on labor in this morning’s budget speech.
Artists and the parks department square off on new regs for selling art in city parks.
The White House released emergency home heating aid funds last week, citing a 20 percent spike in heating costs.
The City Council is reviving the battle to broaden basic education opportunities for welfare recipients.
Medicaid’s rigid formula home-based care payments will become more flexible as part of a lawsuit settlement.
A federal court says Bronx Legal Services has no case in its challenge to LSNY’s consolidation.
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