Year: 2014

Call him M. He lives in Freedom House — the hotel-turned-homeless shelter on Manhattan’s West 95th Street, two blocks from a concert hall that the New York Times once dubbed a palace of performing arts. ..Read More

Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor, Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, Mary Brosnahan, spoke about preventive measures designed to keep New Yorkers from becoming homeless. ..Read More

Public officials and the relatively financially secure have long been guilty of turning the homeless and the poor into scapegoats — and making examples of the people perhaps in most need of compassion and help from their neighbors. It happens everywhere in ..Read More

On the streets of Manhattan, a homeless person can be invisible — even when it’s Richard Gere shooting the drama Time Out of Mind. ..Read More

Every day I commute into the city along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers. On my walk to the subway, I pass by a homeless man. For months and months, I walked by him and felt bad about it. ..Read More

What can be done about homeless people, those poor, sick, jobless souls who just can’t seem to get their acts together and whose suffering  makes the streets and sidewalks so uncomfortable for the rest of us? ..Read More

Filipino-American hair stylist Mark Bustos works at a high-end hair studio in Manhattan’s posh Chelsea neighborhood, where a haircut costs at least $125. ..Read More

In a small town known more for drugs and teen pregnancy than high school graduation rates, Stephen Levin grew up seeing the problems that he would later work to address on a much larger scale as an advocate and elected official in New York City. Plainfield, Ne ..Read More