Year: 2019

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered an investigation after residents of a Brooklyn homeless shelter got sick from eating rancid expired chicken, but that’s not the only shelter where residents are being served inedible meals. Whee ..Read More

NEW YORK — The last school year was the fourth straight in which New York City’s public schools taught more than 100,000 homeless students, according to new data that shows a continuing crisis in the five boroughs. About one in 10, or 114,085, of the c ..Read More

Mayor Bill de Blasio brushed aside calls for more affordable housing to tackle homelessness Thursday, saying offering people on the street a place to live would not solve the problem. Activists have been pressing for a plan that would set aside more subsidized ..Read More

After four days, the police were still struggling to identify one of the four homeless men who were brutally killed in Chinatown on Saturday, and questions abounded about how the others ended up sleeping on the streets where they lost their lives. Investigator ..Read More

The two of us — one, a formerly homeless, formerly incarcerated New Yorker and the other, the state assemblywoman for the district where the terrible crime took place — began the week at a vigil in Kimlau Square to mourn the loss of four community members ..Read More