Immigrants

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

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.

City Hall

Budget Cuts Hit Preschools, Cops, Libraries as Mayor Blames Migrants

Nov. 16, 2023, 4:40 p.m.Nov. 17, 2023, 11:54 a.m.

A revised version of the mayor’s January budget now includes dramatic reductions in the funding of municipal services across the board.

Miss Immigrant USA co-founder Magdalena Kulisz, left, poses with Mayor Eric Adams at an AAPI Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage event at Gracie Mansion.

Immigrants

Miss Immigrant USA, Whose Contestants Often Appear With Adams, Cancels Its Crowning

Oct. 31, 2023, 1:04 p.m.Oct. 31, 2023, 2:14 p.m.

The 11th-hour move came after THE CITY asked its organizers about contestants' criticisms about the pageant and its male co-founder.

Migrants lay on the floor of an Astoria Church after being turned away from an East Village shelter.

Migrant Crisis

Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave

Oct. 24, 2023, 3:38 p.m.Oct. 24, 2023, 3:38 p.m.

Officials quietly started diverting migrants from the Roosevelt Hotel over the weekend, telling them they could find shelter at a new location where instead they’re only offered a ticket out of town.

Rudely Brito speaks outside a Staten Islands Holiday Inn Express run by Project Hospitality were she and other migrants were allegedly scammed out of thousands of dollars by a worker at the hotel who claimed to be securing them housing.

Migrant Crisis

Shelter Worker Scammed Families With Promises of an Apartment, They Say

Oct. 8, 2023, 8:00 a.m.Oct. 11, 2023, 4:38 p.m.

Residents of the Holiday Inn Express in Staten Island reported the incidents to police this week, saying they’d given thousands to a woman who falsely promised to rent them places of their own.

FAQ NYC

LISTEN: The Sign Painters’ Image Shaper

Oct. 7, 2023, 10:18 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:07 a.m.

Katie Honan talks with Aviram Cohen about his work ing brothers Carlos and Miguel Cevallos as their hand-painted signs went from a secret of sorts to a sensation — with their work now on display in the Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University. Subscribe to the FAQ NYC podcast on Apple […]

The Bronx

Family of Woman Whose Body Was Lost for Days in Health Clinic Stairwell Seeks Justice, Closure

Sept. 27, 2023, 7:36 p.m.Sept. 28, 2023, 6:53 a.m.

People gathered outside of Montefiore’s Family Health Center to honor Sary Mao’s life with a Buddhist ceremony that can be especially meaningful to Cambodians who fled the genocide there.

Asylum seekers line up in the rain for an immigration check-in at Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.

Migrant Crisis

Need Immigration Papers? Try Your Luck at Manhattan’s Overwhelmed Federal Building

Sept. 20, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 19, 2023, 7:27 p.m.

Only 600 people a day can be served by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza — leaving even those who have appointments and looming asylum deadlines locked out and at risk.

Shelters

$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records

Sept. 15, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 15, 2023, 9:32 a.m.

Medrite and Aron Security got $450 million to staff more than a dozen shelters under a shroud of secrecy. Even the city comptroller and Council are struggling to find out more as workers and residents clash.

FAQ NYC

LISTEN: Why Doesn’t NYC Just Let Migrants Work?

Sept. 11, 2023, 9:16 p.m.Oct. 15, 2023, 12:32 p.m.

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie res the pod for a lively conversation about his plan for the city to do just that, and much more. Subscribe to the FAQ NYC podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever podcasts are found.

Immigrants

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

Budget Cuts Hit Preschools, Cops, Libraries as Mayor Blames Migrants

Miss Immigrant USA, Whose Contestants Often Appear With Adams, Cancels Its Crowning

Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave

Shelter Worker Scammed Families With Promises of an Apartment, They Say

LISTEN: The Sign Painters’ Image Shaper

Family of Woman Whose Body Was Lost for Days in Health Clinic Stairwell Seeks Justice, Closure

Need Immigration Papers? Try Your Luck at Manhattan’s Overwhelmed Federal Building

$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records

LISTEN: Why Doesn’t NYC Just Let Migrants Work?

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