Critics are enraged by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hands-off policy leaving homeless New Yorkers on the streets during extreme cold, and pleading that the city do anything in its power to protect the ...
Thousands of permanent apartments reserved for formerly homeless New Yorkers are sitting empty, despite a mounting death toll on the city’s streets and a near-record-high shelter population, new city ...
The head of New York City’s homeless services and public benefits programs has submitted her resignation to the Mamdani administration, Gothamist has learned.
They search for the homeless living outdoors everywhere to try to determine how many people don't have a place to live.
Seventeen New Yorkers have died after exposure to frigid temperatures since Jan. 24, raising questions about how Mayor Zohran ...
With homelessness surging, “street psychiatry” is meeting patients where they sleep, even as political battles threaten the ...
A mumbling homeless woman was left out in deadly near-zero temperatures on a Manhattan sidewalk overnight — with first ...
Outreach teams battle mistrust, mental illness and thin resources as subzero weather pushes the city to its limits ...
As weekend temperatures fell into the single digits, New York City operated 65 warming centers where people could find cots, ...
The holdover commissioner of New York City‘s Department of Social Services handed in her resignation to Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday after the city recorded 18 deaths caused by extremely cold ...
A deadly winter reignites debate in New York as homeless deaths rise, deepening divides over forced removals and public safety.