Author: Jacquelyn Simone

Seeking to show progress in New York’s efforts to improve homeless shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio released a new — and overdue — report on Monday that catalogs the number of safety violations at more than 600 sites used to house homeless people. The repo ..Read More

On the night of the Iowa caucus, Fordham University Professor of Politics Christina Greer explains why the Midwest state matters in the presidential election. Star Trek’s George Takei joins us for the first of a two-part interview to discuss his role on the ..Read More

If you’re confused by synthetic marijuana, then a series of recent news stories about the drug probably didn’t clear things up. First, the Boston Globe reported that New England Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones “had a bad reaction to a substance he ..Read More

The number of homeless is recorded at the highest level since the Great Depression. Mary Brosnahan, president and CEO, of the Coalition for the Homeless, reviews the history of efforts on behalf of the homeless: SRO’s, transitional shelters, and the unwi ..Read More

The NYPD Inspector General should investigate the policing of homeless New Yorkers, advocacy groups say. Communities United for Police Reform, Picture the Homeless, and more than 50 other groups wrote to IG Philip Eure requesting the formal probe, saying there ..Read More

Following a murder at an East Harlem homeless shelter last week, the city plans to boost security at shelters and offer more help for mentally ill homeless New Yorkers. Just before midnight on Jan. 27, 62-year-old Deven Black — a former city schoolteacher an ..Read More

The ongoing rivalry between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over who is more committed to helping the city’s homeless population could pay dividends for homeless housing. Advocates had called for the mayor and governor to come together — as ..Read More

Two months after the I-Team first reported on a lack of school buses for many of the city’s homeless children, five-year-old Christiana and her siblings got a big yellow surprise last week: a bus to carry them from their Brooklyn homeless shelter to school. ..Read More

Our society’s image of the gay urban dweller is often white, educated, and financially comfortable. But despite the patina of social progress, there’s a tale of two cities for queer New York, too. In a comprehensive needs assessment of the city’s LGBT po ..Read More