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Migrant crisis: Texas Governor Abbott, who bussed thousands of asylum seekers to New York, deflects blame to Biden during Big Apple visit

Posted on September 28, 2023

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More homeless sweeps: Latest East Village operation sees swarm of cops break up encampment

Posted on September 27, 2023

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Politics

Adams admin asks court to revise its request to suspend right-to-shelter law; judge recuses herself from case

Posted on September 26, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams is expanding the CityFHEPS housing voucher program

Politics

NYC housing voucher recipients can now apply subsidies beyond city limits: Mayor

Posted on September 26, 2023

Governor Kathy Hochul addresses migrant crisis in Harlem

Politics

Migrant crisis: Hochul deploys 150 more National Guard troops to help NYC asylum seekers apply for work permits

Posted on September 25, 2023

Politics

NYC will now cap shelter stays for adult migrants at 30 days: Mayor Adams

Posted on September 22, 2023

Politics

Sliwa attempts to disrupt Mayor Eric Adams’ fundraiser with Midtown protest

Posted on September 22, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams

Politics

Mayor Adams rolls out bevy of zoning changes to promote housing development

Posted on September 21, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams (left) and Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro (right) at a late August rally in Foley Square urging the White House to let migrants work.

Politics

Biden extends protective status for Venezuelans, allows many migrants in NYC to apply for work permits

Posted on September 21, 2023

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Politics

Borelli, House Republicans wield Mayor Adams’ migrant comments to attack President Biden

Posted on September 20, 2023

Donald Johnson at Lower East Side homeless encampment

Lower East Side

Nomads of New York: Formerly homeless man helps unhoused Lower East Side individuals avoid losing everything in street sweeps

Posted on September 20, 2023

Politics

As Biden visits Big Apple, Adams says NYC has done its part on migrant crisis, time for federal action

Posted on September 19, 2023

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Politics

Cadre of mostly GOP pols, local leaders file suit to block Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter

Posted on September 19, 2023

City Comptroller Brad Lander

Politics

Comptroller weighs ‘revoking’ prior approval for Adams administration’s emergency migrant service contracts

Posted on September 18, 2023

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Politics

AOC, Espaillat shouted down by anti-immigrant protesters at press conference that descended into chaos

Posted on September 15, 2023

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Politics

Migrant crisis | Mayor Adams fires back at critics over his remark that influx would ‘destroy’ city

Posted on September 14, 2023

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Loudspeaker message outside NYC migrant shelter warns new arrivals they are ‘not safe here’

Posted on September 14, 2023

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Hochul contemplates special session in Albany as she weighs state work permit program

Posted on September 13, 2023

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Politics

Adams’ latest proposed 15% budget cuts ‘overstate’ fiscal strain of migrant crisis: report

Posted on September 12, 2023

Migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.

Politics

Migrant crisis | Majority of New Yorkers in poll support using federal land for shelters, want sped-up work authorizations

Posted on September 12, 2023

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Politics

City Planning Commission approves Adams’ zoning overhaul for climate sustainability

Posted on September 11, 2023

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Adams warns city agencies could face 15% funding cuts amid migrant crisis

Posted on September 10, 2023

Politics

‘What I want for him is a future’: NYC migrant parents send their children off on their first day of school

Posted on September 8, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about migrant crisis at Manhattan town hall

Republicans seize on Mayor Adams’ dramatic remarks that migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC

Posted on September 7, 2023

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Politics

Another mega-migrant shelter set to open in Queens converted office building: City Hall officials

Posted on September 6, 2023

The Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, where Apex was sued for allegedly allowing lead contaminations in several buildings.

Business

Harlem contractor settles lawsuit alleging lead paint outbreaks in multiple NYC apartment complexes

Posted on September 6, 2023

NY: Rally Against Migrant Center in Midland Beeach

Politics

Amid slew of migrant protests, Sliwa vows to challenge Adams again in 2025

Posted on September 6, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Dense housing, job creation prioritized in community-led plan for Atlantic Avenue rezoning

Politics

NYC migrant crisis | Lander denies contract with medical vendor DocGo to provide asylum seeker services

Posted on September 6, 2023

Year-over-year rental prices have fallen in Manhattan for the first time in over 27 months.

Housing

New York’s crackdown on AirBnB began Tuesday. Here’s what that means for renters and homeowners.

Posted on September 5, 2023

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60-day shelter limit for asylum seekers to take effect next month: Deputy Mayor

Posted on August 30, 2023

Migrant in Manhattan

Politics

Op-ed | President Biden must expedite work permits amid migrant crisis

Posted on August 30, 2023

NY officials warn school districts that they must enroll migrant students

Posted on August 30, 2023

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Politics

Mayor Adams rebukes Curtis Sliwa for Gracie Mansion protest, refers to him as a ‘buffoon’

Posted on August 29, 2023

Politics

Gracie Mansion madness: Protesters clash over migrant crisis

Posted on August 27, 2023

Politics

Coalition of immigration advocates and unions push Biden administration to speed up working papers for migrants

Posted on August 24, 2023

Politics

Anti-migrant protests provide Republican governors with the unrest they seek, NYC public advocate says

Posted on August 24, 2023

A group of Staten Island elected officials lamented a proposal to use Fort Wadsworth as the site of a temporary housing encampment for migrants.

Staten Island elects blast idea to use Fort Wadsworth for migrant housing

Posted on August 24, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Former GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa leads protest against migrant housing at Floyd Bennett Field

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Politics

Expanding housing vouchers to migrants could save NYC billions, report says

Posted on August 23, 2023

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Adams says feds need to take lesson from Israel and allow migrants to work

Posted on August 22, 2023

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Politics

‘A serious problem’: New Yorkers of various backgrounds see migrant crisis as ‘burden’ in new poll

Posted on August 22, 2023

Midtown Manhattan

Camp Win brings summer joy to homeless children with Midtown carnival

Posted on August 22, 2023

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Brooklyn

Feds give state, city greenlight to use Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to shelter over 2,000 migrants: Hochul

Posted on August 21, 2023

Randall's Island shelter cots with Theodore Long of the Adams administration

Biggest one yet: City opens immense Randall’s Island migrant center for 3,000 people as officials plead for fed aid amid crisis

Posted on August 20, 2023

NY: Rally Against Migrant Center in Midland Beeach

Staten Islanders rally against conversion of former senior facility into migrant shelter

Posted on August 18, 2023

NYC considers converting former federal jail, once holding notorious inmates including Epstein, for housing migrants

Posted on August 18, 2023

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Venezuelan migrant at new Long Island City shelter here to work for better life, as enraged locals fear for vitality of neighborhood

More from around NYC

Bronx City Council Member Kevin Riley rallied supporters for the Indoor Hoops Act which would increase the number of indoor basketball courts available to the public year-round.

Riley and sports advocates rally for year round access to indoor basketball courts

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Game on: Where to play pickleball in Queens

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Teen fighting for life after East Flatbush headshot, days after fatal Coney Island shooting

Pope Francis turned heads early on with his famous quote, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” But what came of it?

Pope Francis brought a change in tone, but not in substance