Posted on November 13, 2015 by Nikita Stewart in The New York Times The New York Times, By Nikita Stewart The daily trek to school begins outside a cluster of budget-price hotels in an industrial area in the middle of Staten Island. The children and their parents, all of them homeless and none from the borough, stream into the predawn darkness and onto buses waiting to take them to the St. George Ferry Terminal or transit hubs an hour away in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The families are at the start of what can be two-hour trips to the schools they were forced to move away from when the city ran out of space in family shelters and placed them and scores of others in hotels far from where they had been living.
