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This Voucher Is Supposed to Help Homeless New Yorkers Leave Shelters. A Majority Don’t Qualify.
The city’s main voucher program, CityFHEPS, has been a lifeline for many homeless New Yorkers who have secured permanent homes with the rental subsidy. But a broad swath of people in New York’s shelters are not eligible, cutting them off from a key avenue out of homelessness, according to data from two major local shelter […]
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LISTEN: Don’t Bet Against Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani’s first political endorsement since becoming mayor predictably didn’t pan out, but Lindsey Boylan wasn’t the candidate he’s betting his political capital on. The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including why bringiing casinos to New York is such a terrible idea, what’s so good about bodega cats and bad about […]
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Video Appears to Show ICE Agent Tasing Man Multiple Times Ahead of Bushwick Hospital Standoff
An ICE agent appeared to tase a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. ICE agents later took that man to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for medical treatment, […]
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He Survived Japanese Occupation and Mao’s Cultural Revolution. At 93, He’s Fighting NYCHA.
Jin Tao Wu has survived Japan’s invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural Revolution. Now, thousands of miles and many decades later, the 93-year-old sits in a beige-walled public housing apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, confronting what he sees as the biggest crisis of his life. The […]
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Three Rikers Deaths, Similar Failures: Officers Off Post, Medical Care Bungled
One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. A third was left locked in his cell, unsupervised, for nearly half an hour as he spiraled into a medical crisis. Those were some of the damning findings outlined […]
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