Mayor Zohran Mamdani paused the previous mayor’s policy for clearing encampments days after he took office in January, ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that his administration had taken lessons from the city’s last storm, when at least 20 ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that street encampments won’t be torn down during one of the worst blizzards in New York City’s history — even as homeless people kept camping out and rejecting offers ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will place the Department of Homeless Services in charge of the sweeps, replacing the Police Department as leader of the interagency efforts.
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Department commissioner will be Erin Dalton, who conducted outreach in Pennsylvania among unhoused communities ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Tuesday afternoon, city teams of outreach workers hit the streets trying to get the homeless in from the cold. Monday night 97 voluntarily went to city shelters, and another 101 to ...
Allowing the homeless to languish on the streets in severe winter weather can be a deadly policy. It has been in New York City.
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who fatally beat four sleeping men on the streets of New York City’s Chinatown was convicted Thursday ...
According to Advocates for Children of New York, over 104,000 children were homeless during the 2021-2022 school year. For the seventh year in a row, 10% of kids are experiencing homelessness in New ...
Sixty-five warming spaces — located at hospitals, houses of worship and schools — are active around town throughout the ...
The decision came as at least 19 people have died outside over several days of brutal cold in the city, prompting concerns ...