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Rikers Island. Most of the people on it are pretrail detainees, many of them stuck there because they could not afford bail.
A Brooklyn Councilmember believes the de Blasio administration is moving towards a policy of temporarily releasing medically vulnerable inmates, as advocates demand the city pull back on low-level enforcement.
Colleges can shift to online learning. Teams can cancel sporting events. Restaurants might close. But the services on which homeless New Yorkers depend—like soup kitchens, pantries and shelters—can’t exactly ask their clients to make other arrangements during the Coronavirus crisis.
It could have reflected a disparity in customers’ ability to afford to purchase—or have room to store—emergency stockpiles.
‘Downtown Flushing is not immune to the consequences of transformative large-scale new development that inadvertently leaves many behind.’
Despite being nonprofits and receiving billions in subsidies, New York State hospitals went to court more than 30,000 times over the past five years to force patients to pay bills that many simply could not afford, a report released Thursday found.
Two Queens reporters break down the race for ‘beep’, the runners and why it all matters.
The report, prepared for an environmental group, comes as National Grid begins a series of public meetings about its strategy for meeting what it says will be significant growth in natural-gas demand.
Critics say sending teams of cops, sanitation workers and outreach personnel to roust people from their makeshift homes is punishing victims rather than addressing the homelessness problem.
New York City might have to adopt much more dramatic measures, like the closure of schools, if the local case count tops 100, a public-health expert says.
Super Tuesday marks the first 2020 electoral test for Michael Bloomberg, whom voters around the country are getting to know. New Yorkers, of course, are already familiar with the billionaire media titan, whom they elected to the mayoralty three times.