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New York City estimates 3,000 homeless people live on the streets. While many have sought shelter this week, many others haven’t. These are conditions we find tough, even just to get to the corner. Yet countless New Yorkers have no refuge, as Fox 5 saw a ..Read More

In the common room of Boston’s Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, dozens of blue vinyl pads and folded-up cots stood ready on Friday for another night’s rush of people fleeing the deadly cold that has gripped the region for almost two weeks. The four-story ..Read More

The Upper West Side is still draped in darkness as the headlights from a Toyota Rav4 cut through its sleepy roads. Before the sunrise fills the streets with its warm light, two social workers from Goddard Riverside Community Center’s Homeless Outreach Team a ..Read More

Finding a warm place to stay during the bitter cold and snow is a challenge for Success, a 42-year-old homeless woman living on the streets in Manhattan. “If I could come up with $2.75, I would ride the train for the heat,” she said Wednesday night. But li ..Read More

It’s been four years since Bill de Blasio first stood on the steps of City Hall and, placing his hand on a Bible that had once belonged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, took the oath of office to become New York City’s 109th mayor. It was a frigid day, bitter ..Read More

Temperatures forecast to stay 10 to 15 degrees below normal through the weekend. Unsheltered homeless individuals, infants, older adults and people with certain chronic medical conditions are at an increased risk. Benjamin Krakauer, assistant commissioner for ..Read More

Thanks to generous donations from readers, Metro was able to deliver hundreds of toys to underprivileged children in Boston, Philadelphia and New York City just in time for the holidays. Metro’s annual toy drive, Tony’s Metro Magic, wrapped up earlier this ..Read More

The city is working to get homeless people shelter as temperatures dip and the city faces its coldest air of 2017. With freezing conditions in the city Tuesday night and overnight, the Department of Homeless Services has issued a Code Blue warning. That means ..Read More

Every year around Christmas, a section of Union Square Park in New York City is blocked off for a holiday market of winding aisles lined with sales booths. Right across 14th Street, outside trendy stores, people huddled under blankets are asking for change fro ..Read More