Category: News

country’s original sin of slavery, with white liberals everywhere suddenly activated against police violence and systematic racism. But here in supposedly progressive New York City—where Mayor Bill de Blasio personally helped paint the words “Black Lives ..Read More

The LaGuardia Plaza, about a block from the airport, looks from the outside like any hotel that caters to business travelers: a sweeping circular driveway and meticulously landscaped entrance leading to a shiny glass box on Ditmars Boulevard. These days, howev ..Read More

The recent debacle surrounding the city’s use of the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to shelter homeless men during the pandemic, and Mayor de Blasio’s Sept. 8 order to transfer the men out of that hotel in response to NIMBY — and, at times, outward ..Read More

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were almost 92,000 homeless New Yorkers. However, now due to a rise in unemployment, opioid use, domestic abuse, and more over the past few months, experts believe that number has grown. “We’re seeing increases in homele ..Read More

Families with children are being moved from a Brooklyn homeless shelter one week before school starts to appease well-to-do New Yorkers who don’t want homeless people among them, said a City Council member who deals with social welfare issues. In the city’ ..Read More

Homeless advocates marched up to the Mayor Bill de Blasio’s home on Sunday to protest the city’s decision to remove some 300 people living in hotels configured for temporary housing. As a way to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless pop ..Read More

The city’s plan to shuffle homeless residents around to different shelters to appease aggrieved Upper West Siders could mean that families living in a Brooklyn shelter get abruptly sent to different facilities all over the city, uprooting their kids just ..Read More

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our city is complex and far-reaching, the guiding principle behind our collective response to it must remain unchanged: Do everything we can to save lives. Whatever successes we have had toward that end have been th ..Read More

The guests arrived at the Lucerne Hotel, two blocks from Central Park, carrying their belongings, stepping off buses and filling the hotel’s empty rooms, which typically cost more than $200 a night They were not tourists nor business travelers but residents ..Read More