The woman looking out for New York’s 52,000 homeless Posted on March 10, 2014 by admin in Irish Central Each night, there are close to 52,000 homeless people in New York City’s shelter system – 22,000 of them children. That’s the highest level of homelessness in the city’s modern history. One of their greatest sources of both advocacy and support is the ..Read More
Hey buddy, can you spare a holding cell? Cops kick up peddler arrests in city subway stations Posted on March 7, 2014 by admin in New York Daily News As of March 2, the NYPD this year had nabbed 274 panhandlers and peddlers on city subways, officials said Thursday. That’s more than three times the amount arrested in the same period last year, where just 90 peddler arrests had been made. ..Read More
At Council Hearing, Calls for New York to Offer Homeless Children and Families More Aid Posted on February 27, 2014 by admin in New York Times Members of the City Council pressed the de Blasio administration at a hearing on Thursday to complete a proposal for rental assistance to New York’s homeless and demanded improved services for more than 22,000 children living in city shelters. ..Read More
NY homeless population increasing exponentially Posted on February 25, 2014 by admin in Press TV The number of homeless sleeping each night in the New York City shelter system has surpassed 50,000 people, for the first time in three decades. According to a report by the Coalition for the Homeless, more children and adults are homeless now in New York City ..Read More
The dangerous zone between a halfway house and freedom Posted on February 24, 2014 by admin in Aljazeera America Last October a man, whom we’ll call Steve, walked around the apartment where he resided in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, part of a three-building complex of identical redbrick structures stretching down a side street. (All residents’ names have ..Read More
New York Is Removing Over 400 Children From 2 Homeless Shelters Posted on February 21, 2014 by admin in New York Times In the face of New York’s mounting homeless crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Friday that his administration is removing hundreds of children from two city-owned homeless shelters that inspectors have repeatedly cited for deplorable conditions ov ..Read More
If a 6-Year-Old Can Help His City, Why Can’t You? Posted on February 20, 2014 by admin in The Atlantic Cities Blake Ansari is only six-years-old, but he’s already done something to make his city better. The first-grader, who attends the Metropolitan Montessori School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, had been thinking this winter about other kids in his city, k ..Read More
Harsh winter leads to more homeless on city streets Posted on February 18, 2014 by admin in Pavement Pieces A Styrofoam container of hot soup, a loaf of bread, an orange, and a carton of milk may not seem like much of meal, but for the increasing number of homeless people living in New York’s streets, these meals provided by the Coalition of the Homeless’ Grand ..Read More
Homeless Hope for Better Days With New Mayor Posted on February 14, 2014 by admin in WNYC News On a recent bitterly cold day, standing in front of a shelter in East New York, Cicely had a message for Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Let’s make a change,” she said. “It’s time to make a change because I think it’s unfair the shelter system is so cr ..Read More
