Homeless

Subway cleaners work around at the Jamaica Center terminal in Queens, Jan. 22, 2025.

As Temperatures Plunge, Subways Serve as Rolling Shelters

Jan. 23, 2025, 1:14 p.m.Jan. 23, 2025, 5:18 p.m.

When sleeping on the street is deadly and shelters are dangerous, homeless New Yorkers looking for warmth and a place to lay their head retreat underground.

A hiring app s in Grand Central Terminal in a walkway where homeless people congregate.

Housing

Most Street-Homeless Housing Applicants Never Get a Shot, Inside Stats Show

Jan. 6, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 6, 2025, 1:36 p.m.

City agencies tracked nearly 1,000 homeless people as they waited for ive housing. Just 18% obtained a spot, despite thousands of vacant units.

People hang outside the Hall Street migrant shelter in Brooklyn.

Migrant Crisis

City Hall Moves to Wind Down Separate Shelter System for Migrants

Nov. 22, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 21, 2024, 6:55 p.m.

The plan comes after two years of operating an ad hoc “shadow system” of separate shelters for migrants.

The Streetwork Project youth drop-in shelter in Harlem has seen an influx in homeless migrants.

Homelessness

Number of City Youth With Nowhere to Sleep at Night Climbs

Sept. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 18, 2024, 10:09 a.m.

New report from Department of Youth and Community Development shows hundreds of young people often can’t find a shelter bed.

Councilmember Susan Zhuang speaks in City Hall Park about increasing 3-K funding.

Homeless Shelters

What Sparked the Anti-Shelter Protest Where a Councilmember Allegedly Bit a Cop

July 17, 2024, 6:31 p.m.July 18, 2024, 10:25 a.m.

The forthcoming homeless shelter, the first in Bensonhurst, has seen weeks of demonstrations from an increasingly right-leaning Asian American community there.

Homeless

NYC’s Unsheltered Homeless Population Reaches Highest Number in More Than a Decade

June 13, 2024, 2:13 p.m.June 13, 2024, 2:20 p.m.

Volunteers and city staffers counted 4,140 people sleeping on the streets and subways during the overnight annual count on Jan. 23.

Migrants wait in line outside the St. Brigid shelter re-ticketing site in the East Village.

Homelessness

Adult Migrants Limited to 30-Day Stay in ‘Right-to-Shelter’ Settlement

March 15, 2024, 6:52 p.m.March 16, 2024, 7:50 a.m.

The agreement between homeless rights advocates and city attorneys withdraws Mayor Eric Adams' request to end guarantees under a decades-old consent decree.

Migrant families moving to and from the Roosevelt Hotel ahead of reaching a 60-day shelter limit, January 5, 2024.

Migrant Crisis

Migrant Families and Schools Brace for Wave of Shelter Evictions

Jan. 8, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 8, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

Thousands of migrant families with school-aged children in city shelters will reach the end of their 60-day time limit starting Tuesday. What happens next is unclear.

Police officers talk with a homeless person who was swiping in subway commuters at Penn Station.

Mental Health

Adams Renews Push for Forced Psych Hospitalizations as Albany Gets Back to Work

Jan. 8, 2024, 4:59 a.m.Jan. 8, 2024, 11:10 a.m.

The mayor's top mental health advisor recently visited a Midtown community board looking for elusive for changes to state mental health laws.

Dozens of migrants waited in the cold outside the St. Brigid re-ticketing site in the East Village.

Migrant Crisis

Only a Handful of Migrants at ‘Reticketing Site’ Accept City’s Free Trips Out

Nov. 28, 2023, 7:44 p.m.May 30, 2024, 12:16 p.m.

Hundreds of migrants waited outside for hours in the cold waiting for shelter cots, while just a few have accepted the city’s offer of tickets out of town, according to data obtained by THE CITY.

Homeless

As Temperatures Plunge, Subways Serve as Rolling Shelters

Most Street-Homeless Housing Applicants Never Get a Shot, Inside Stats Show

City Hall Moves to Wind Down Separate Shelter System for Migrants

Number of City Youth With Nowhere to Sleep at Night Climbs

What Sparked the Anti-Shelter Protest Where a Councilmember Allegedly Bit a Cop

NYC’s Unsheltered Homeless Population Reaches Highest Number in More Than a Decade

Adult Migrants Limited to 30-Day Stay in ‘Right-to-Shelter’ Settlement

Migrant Families and Schools Brace for Wave of Shelter Evictions

Adams Renews Push for Forced Psych Hospitalizations as Albany Gets Back to Work

Only a Handful of Migrants at ‘Reticketing Site’ Accept City’s Free Trips Out

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