Weather: ☔ Showers off and on, highs in the mid 70s.
It's Friday in New York City, where more people are sleeping outside than ever before — despite the millions spent on homeless outreach services.
Stakeholders who spoke to Gothamist pointed to several problems: There isn't enough housing that people are willing to accept. There's no single authority in charge. And the dozens of outreach groups working in the city often overlap, don't communicate with each other and can overwhelm the very people they’re trying to help.
“You become numb,” said Andrew Chappotin, who estimates that five or six different outreach groups and upwards of 40 workers tried to help him during the three years he spent sleeping on the street.
An "unfortunate physical conflict ... doesn’t mean you get rid of fare payment": MTA Chair Janno Lieber is brushing aside the Mamdani administration’s claim that a violent incident earlier this month where MTA inspectors tackled a suspected fare evader shows the need to eliminate bus fares.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and more than 100 elected officials across New York state are calling on private parking lot owners to ban ICE officers from using their property.
During a recent appearance on WNYC's "Who's Running This Place?", far-left congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier repeated her call for NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to step down in the wake of last week’s shooting by ICE agents in Marble Hill — and insisted her beef isn't with Mayor Mamdani.
New York City’s emergency medical response teams are taking longer to get to people in distress, even as life-threatening emergencies are spiking, according to an analysis of FDNY data by the city comptroller’s office.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men in connection with the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a college student who authorities say was also raped, and the near-fatal poisoning of another student at a Manhattan residence hall earlier this year.
Police said they're looking for at least two people who've been stealing wallets from patrons at Two Doors Down, a bar on the Lower East Side.
The long-promised expansion of the Second Avenue Subway was intended to address a long-standing transit gap in East Harlem. But as construction advances, the project has also exposed a deeper tension between infrastructure investment and displacement. Join WNYC’s “NYC Now” and the transit team on Thursday, Oct. 22, for a live podcast and community conversation with residents, business owners and MTA officials.
Work is set to begin next week on lifting the sagging floors of an office-to-residential conversion project at a Midtown building that nearly collapsed this summer.
Winning a housing lottery for an affordable apartment sounds great as long as you're mentally prepared for the apartment to be not that affordable — and also extremely small and in a building with market-rate rent-payers who get amenities you don't.
The George Washington Bridge's South Walk for pedestrians is now open.
“Mayor Mamdani is one of the most popular politicians on planet Earth. Kathy Hochul, who is notably not, is trying to tie herself to the mayor,” said a representative from a Blakeman-supporting super PAC. “Why would Blakeman do the job for her?”
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