Year: 2014

Blake Ansari is only six-years-old, but he’s already done something to make his city better. The first-grader, who attends the Metropolitan Montessori School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, had been thinking this winter about other kids in his city, k ..Read More

A Styrofoam container of hot soup, a loaf of bread, an orange, and a carton of milk may not seem like much of meal, but for the increasing number of homeless people living in New York’s streets, these meals provided by the Coalition of the Homeless’ Grand ..Read More

On a recent bitterly cold day, standing in front of a shelter in East New York, Cicely had a message for Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Let’s make a change,” she said. “It’s time to make a change because I think it’s unfair the shelter system is so cr ..Read More

The homeless population in the subway has soared 90% in recent years, prompting an ambitious new effort to get the troubled riders assistance and off the rails, city officials said. The city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are funding a $6 milli ..Read More

If you ever find yourself walking down Amsterdam Avenue on a particularly frigid evening, take notice of the line of grates in the sidewalk of 114th Street behind John Jay. On most days, the grates emit a column of hot steam, which slowly rises over the sidewa ..Read More

New York City and Los Angeles have vastly larger homeless populations than any other cities in the country. But while most of New York’s homeless population is sheltered, the same can’t be said about Los Angeles. Just take a look at this chart. ..Read More