Author: Yerelyn Nunez

Mayor Eric Adams defended his decision to suspend parts of the city’s “right-to-shelter” law on Thursday, calling it a difficult choice forced by a “real-life humanitarian crisis.” Read more… ..Read More

In anticipation of a new influx of migrants coming to the tri-state as COVID-era immigration restrictions known as “Title 42” are set to expire, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order loosening the city’s legal restriction ..Read More

At a Council hearing, officials said the city has recorded 318,000 “engagements” since February 2022 between street homeless residents and police or outreach workers, including instances where the same individual was contacted multiple times. Of those, 4,6 ..Read More

On May 1, Jordan Neely desperately ranted on an F train traveling through Manhattan. A fellow passenger placed the 30-year-old homeless man in a chokehold, killing him and setting off protests throughout the city. Read more… ..Read More

In yet another disturbing twist to the migrant crisis in New York City, families with young children are sleeping alongside adult single men at a makeshift shelter inside the NYPD’s old Manhattan police academy gym — a move asylum seekers and officials hav ..Read More

For some New Yorkers, Jordan Neely was dead even before Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny allegedly choked the life out of him on the floor of a subway train. Read more… ..Read More

The death of Jordan Neely reveals a wide societal belief that “any homeless person is likely to be violent or likely to attack them,” one expert said. Read more… ..Read More

The death of a Black man who appeared to be suffering from mental illness on an F train on Monday is stirring outrage after a white man who had placed him in a chokehold wasn’t charged by the NYPD. Read more… ..Read More

Video of the deadly encounter shows the 30-year-old man being restrained by a 24-year-old U.S. Marine veteran. Read more… ..Read More