Category: News

New York City food pantries and aid networks are providing food to more recipients despite decreased funding and volunteers, according to a report by Food Bank For New York City. Many pantries are struggling to keep up with the increased need for help, while a ..Read More

As Mayor Bill de Blasio promotes his campaign to increase housing opportunities for financially struggling senior citizens, his finance department is having trouble publicizing a rental assistance program for the same population. Though the agency enrolled 11, ..Read More

The number of families with children in city shelters has been rising for months, reversing a previous downward trend and bringing the current levels dangerously close to the all-time high, stats show. The already strained shelter system — which is so crowde ..Read More

I first met Larraine when we both lived in a trailer park on the far South Side of Milwaukee. Fifty-four, with silvering brown hair, Larraine loved mystery novels, “So You Think You Can Dance” and doting on her grandson. Even though she lived in a mobile h ..Read More

The affordable housing lottery this summer for 64 units at a high-end glassy tower on Madison Avenue was the first to get 100,000 applicants, according to data city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. But odds are slim that all of these app ..Read More

The time had come for Gene to leave the ground-floor apartment, as he knew it would. The owner who let him stay there rent-free had been dead for more than a year, and the estate wanted it back. With the marshal at the door, Gene delivered his cats to a neighb ..Read More

Gigi lives in a high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side for less than she used to pay for a smaller third-floor walk-up in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The two-bedroom in Manhattan is shabby in some ways, but the rent can’t be beat: less than $1,000 a month for a ..Read More

Light is being shone on an often taboo subject that affects all women: their period. An effort is underway to make feminine hygiene products free in New York City schools. On the state level, female lawmakers are trying to lift the sales tax on tampons and pad ..Read More

Rafael’s housing situation is an exercise in tolerance and creative space management. He lives with four other people in an overstuffed apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, that measures less than 500 square feet. He shares a bedroom with his mother. Two me ..Read More