Category: News

Public officials and the relatively financially secure have long been guilty of turning the homeless and the poor into scapegoats — and making examples of the people perhaps in most need of compassion and help from their neighbors. It happens everywhere in ..Read More

Every day I commute into the city along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers. On my walk to the subway, I pass by a homeless man. For months and months, I walked by him and felt bad about it. ..Read More

What can be done about homeless people, those poor, sick, jobless souls who just can’t seem to get their acts together and whose suffering  makes the streets and sidewalks so uncomfortable for the rest of us? ..Read More

Filipino-American hair stylist Mark Bustos works at a high-end hair studio in Manhattan’s posh Chelsea neighborhood, where a haircut costs at least $125. ..Read More

In a small town known more for drugs and teen pregnancy than high school graduation rates, Stephen Levin grew up seeing the problems that he would later work to address on a much larger scale as an advocate and elected official in New York City. Plainfield, Ne ..Read More

The Wait is a short social documentary set on the steps of the 5th Avenue Apple Store in Manhattan about a group of people waiting for the new Apple iPhone 6. ..Read More

Two top members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration briefed Democratic City Council members on Thursday on the city’s efforts to combat a rise in homelessness. ..Read More

Actress Jennifer Connelly lost 25 pounds to play a homeless woman in her husband Paul Bettany’s directorial debut “Shelter”. The “Noah” star not only researched to look convincing as Hannah in the film, she also learned how to use needles and ..Read More