Month: October 2015

New York City bears the cost of housing homeless single adults almost entirely on its own, a shift from the recent past, in which the state shouldered a much larger share of the burden, a new report from the Independent Budget Office finds. The funding decreas ..Read More

Walter Simpson calls the framed family pictures that decorate his living room wall, the “wall of fame.” There’s his niece, his mom, and an aunt who has since passed away. Simpson has lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn ..Read More

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, a designer and programmer by trade. He created his interactive art piece, “Wage Islands” by using the median monthly housing cost data in New York City, sourced from the American Community survey. Wage Islands is simple, yet dazz ..Read More

Nearly two years after taking office, Mayor de Blasio held what his office billed as the first traditional townhall meeting of his mayoralty Wednesday — but its format had some critics accusing him of hosting a political pep rally. About 250 people attended ..Read More

New York is a city of extreme inequality, where people in the poorest neighborhood of Brooklyn die 11 years earlier than those living around Wall Street, according to data released Wednesday. The city unveiled health statistics from across Brooklyn, one of New ..Read More

On the evening of October 1st, as the temperature dipped into the 50s and a steady rain began to fall, Floyd Parks and a few other homeless men and women sought shelter under the overhang at Choir Academy, a public school in East Harlem. The rain was still fal ..Read More

Late this summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio assembled a group of advocates for homeless people at City Hall; it was time for damage control — again. The homeless issue was continuing to spiral out of control: the number in New York City shelters was stuck stubbor ..Read More