Category: News

These days you can find William Kitt in a small, bright solarium on the corner of 150th Street and Edgecombe Avenue in Manhattan, where he lives. Most hours on any day he sits here, sketching over a desk cluttered with colored pencils and pastels. What you cou ..Read More

As New York City’s homeless problem worsened last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio parted with two top officials overseeing the issue, called weekly staff meetings that sometimes grew testy and pledged more than $1 billion in additional funding. So far, the result ..Read More

Plans to develop nearly 3,000 units of affordable housing across New York have been put in jeopardy because Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders failed to reach an agreement on how to spend $2 billion they put in the budget this year for new housing, advocates c ..Read More

In February of 2015, Lilian Piedra received a letter with devastating news: Her landlord was jacking up the rent for her four-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s Washington Heights from $2,100 a month to $3,500. The notice did not say she faced eviction, but Pi ..Read More

For a lot of us, the hospital’s emergency room is a stressful place. Not so for Glenn Baker. When Baker, 44, steps into the emergency room at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, he’s completely comfortable. He has a favorite double-wide ..Read More

It was a special night for a group of high school students who had it rough growing up. They were homeless and went from shelter to shelter for years. But they didn’t let their circumstance prevent them from achieving. Despite all the odds, they’re ..Read More

The Verve Hotel doesn’t stick out. The tan, six-floor building in the Dutch Kills neighborhood of Queens is typical of the quiet industrial area, surrounded as it is by bodyshops, single-family homes, a rumbling elevated train, and hotels of a modernist ..Read More

Mayor de Blasio has sent out dozens of city workers to search for the homeless on the streets, in an effort to combat the problem — and fend off the criticism he faced last summer. At a cost of $2.6 million, the city has hired 52 canvassers who walk every bl ..Read More

The board that sets rents for more than one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City voted on Monday to freeze rents for one-year leases for the second year in a row. By a vote of 7 to 0, with two abstentions, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board ..Read More