Month: November 2015

With the Metropolitan Pavilion transformed into a sleek Chelsea gallery space and work from Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Holzer, and Glenn Ligon up for grabs, Artwalk NY provided a tony tribute to the tireless work of New York’s Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More

Working at a publication like Architectural Digest, for which the job at hand is to ruminate on design matters of the home, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that not everyone has one. But in New York City alone, there are over 59,000 people staying in ..Read More

“Fifty thousand dollars. Let’s start at $50,000 for Richard Gere,” said Alec Baldwin Tuesday night at Coalition for the Homeless’ annual Artwalk benefit sponsored by Tiffany & Co. Baldwin, one of the evening’s philanthropic honorees, along with h ..Read More

New York City, in what will mark the single biggest investment of the de Blasio administration to fight homelessness, plans to create 15,000 additional units of housing that will be paired with social-service support, an initiative estimated to cost about $3 b ..Read More

The first few primary debates of the presidential election season are in. We can see where the economic policy discussion is going. Republicans remain wedded to the fantasy that there is no problem tax cuts can’t fix. Democrats offer a more varied policy too ..Read More

A collaboration between photographers and their homeless protégés show us their view of New York City. ‘Through the Eyes of the Homeless’ is a project that pairs professional photographers as mentors with homeless people as their students. Daniel Rosenth ..Read More

The sidewalks near Wall Street are prime real estate for panhandlers like 65-year-old Irrae Davis. There are plenty of tourists, office workers and well-heeled banker types who could potentially help a down-on-his-luck man asking for a few bucks. “I have ..Read More

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 waiti ..Read More

With nearly 60,000 homeless people sleeping in New York City shelters each night, roughly 24,000 of them children, a City Council hearing Monday will examine one of the essential elements in reducing homelessness. At Monday’s oversight hearing, advocates and ..Read More