Nanoom House has converted a two-story single family home into a refuge for 20 or so homeless Korean immigrants. Facing an onslaught of pressure from neighbors, the city and their landlord, the shelter is fighting for its existence.
A Family Affair: Parents, Children and NYC's Homelessness Crisis
Despite Broad Support, Albany Might Again Balk on Rental Help for the Homeless
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Home Stability Support has the support of tenants’ rights advocates and the landlord lobby, but there’s a major snag: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resisted it.
Housing and Development
A Guide to Your Rights in Homeless Shelters
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It covers everything from privacy to diet, voting to disabilities, public benefits to income savings; explains supportive housing and vouchers; talks about how to get a fair hearing and how to seek permanent affordable housing.
Afrocentric Schools
Re-emerging Demand Seen for City’s Afrocentric Schools
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Although Afrocentric schools have been around since the 1970s, new ones have been popping up across the country in recent years, including in Brooklyn, as parents seek alternatives to the heavily-Eurocentric approach favored in mainstream schools.
Government
A Subway Chat About NY-12 Candidate Harrison’s Transit Plan
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What Pete Harrison lacks in money and name recognition he is hoping to make up with bold ideas, like a $1.7 trillion plan to provide free transit for all
ARTS and CULTURE
Q&A: Museum of the City of NY Curator on Making Census Data Fun
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Exhibit curator Monxo López talks with El Correo about a new exhibit of works that use census data to tell stories of the city.
Government
Many Latinos still believe that the citizenship question is in the 2020 Census
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More than half of U.S. citizens of Latino descent believe that the 2020 Census includes a question about citizenship, a mistaken belief whose apparent popularity deeply troubles advocates and officials.
Flushing waterfront
Community Board Approves Flushing Waterfront Plan, Despite Opposition
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Despite loud chants of “no more luxury residential buildings” from opponents, Queens Community Board 7 approved a rezoning plan that would green light a waterfront development project by creating a Special Flushing Waterfront District.
Bronx
Africans in the Bronx Find Family on the Soccer Field
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Originally dubbed the African Diaspora Youth Sports Club, that team is now called the United Africa Football Club—a multilingual group that has won seven annual soccer tournaments.
The Ride
New NYPD Unit Will Crack Down on Drivers Who Fail to Yield — But Nearly Half of Those Tickets Are Still Tossed Out
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In his State of the City speech, Mayor de Blasio announced a new NYPD Vision Zero Unit to crack down on dangerous driving behavior, like failure to yield. But data shows many drivers who get summonses for that offense face no penalties.
council
Levin: City’s Approach to Homelessness Still Lacks Clarity
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‘Some of it has to do with doubling down on existing policies but a lot of it has to do with things that we’ve been advocating for for years that are still not done. A lot of them are things we’ve been talking about for five, six years.’