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Newark community mourns after firefighters killed in massive cargo ship blaze

The cargo ship blaze that erupted Wednesday night at Port Newark and killed two firefighters is expected to burn for several more days as crews work to contain the flames and keep the steel vessel from...

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Why these NJ schools are so diverse, while many are segregated — affordable...

The fourth-graders at Claremont Elementary School in Franklin Township, New Jersey already know many of the basic building blocks of a good neighborhood. Days before the end of the school year in June,...

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A New Jersey Summer Rec Extravaganza

There are so many summer activities to do in New Jersey, it's too hard to count. To help give us with some recommendations of how to take advantage of the rest of the summer in Jersey, we're joined by...

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Even amid dire climate change warnings, NJ doesn’t protect farm workers from...

There are no heat-specific federal or New Jersey laws regulating conditions for the roughly 25,000 farmworkers in New Jersey — even as state environmental experts expect the number of heat-related...

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On Staten Island, 2 months of back rent can end in eviction

The owner of a large housing complex in New Dorp, Staten Island, is carrying out more evictions than any other landlord in the borough, with dozens of tenants — including many with rent subsidies —...

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Food pantry visits surge in NYC as 'perfect storm' over benefit delays and...

Lines for hot meals and free groceries are growing longer, New York City nonprofits say, citing a surge in recent months reminiscent of the worst days of the pandemic when crowds wrapped around the...

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NYC pushes to get migrants work permits, but shelter evictions could...

Some New York City legal services providers are worried that the Adams administration’s recent policy of evicting thousands of migrants from homeless shelters after 30 or 60 days and making them...

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Migrant students face schooling uncertainty as NYC gives families 60 days to...

Education and child advocates say the new shelter limits will force families to make difficult choices about keeping their children in their current schools while finding a new place to live.

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Many migrant kids at NYC schools are new to English. They're finding creative...

Valeska Cardona, 9, is still far from calling herself conversational in English — she’s trying to remember how to pronounce the word orange — but she says she’s cracked the code for making a...

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Migrant teens and young adults aren't getting necessary help, according to...

New York City is shuttling new arrivals into a different propped up shelter system than the general homeless population — a process that’s leaving older teens and young adult migrants without access to...

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Migrant families facing eviction from NYC shelter get 1 additional week to...

Migrant families with children won’t be forced to leave their homeless shelters during the holidays, but still face unclear directives from the city and a looming deadline to find other housing or...

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Dozens of migrant families booted from NYC shelter as 60-day notices come due

Migrant families and their children began packing up and leaving their homeless shelter at the Row Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, saying goodbye to the place they’ve called home since...

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This Week in Politics: A first wave of deadlines for migrant families in NYC...

This week, a first wave of migrant families living in New York City shelters reached a new deadline to move out. And that's just one of the many challenges with finding shelter that migrants in our...

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‘Most of us have gone through this’: Yonkers workers show new migrants the...

Silvano Bautista said he started noticing new groups of workers at the day laborer stops in Yonkers last summer. Most of them were Venezuelan, he said, and staying at a nearby migrant hotel shelter....

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This NYC job training program is helping young adults pivot to high-earning...

A group of adults eager to switch careers or leave their low-wage gigs graduated from a unique job training program last month, ready to work in a growing industry: managing modern-day buildings.The...

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NYC expands meal delivery service for seniors as more fall into poverty

The Adams administration is expanding its program to deliver free meals to older adults at home, citing a post-pandemic rise in isolation and decreased mobility among the city’s oldest New Yorkers.In...

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As more people turn to collecting bottles and cans, NY lawmakers push...

The workers who collect empty bottles and cans from the city's streets and trash bins want state lawmakers to double the refunds they get from recycling containers from 5 cents to 10 cents, which would...

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Migrant families suffering from PTSD find temporary relief from NYC shelter...

Some migrant families whose children have medical or mental health conditions are finding relief from having to move out of their shelters and reapply for housing despite the city limiting how long...

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NYC Mayor Adams reaches settlement in fight to roll back right to shelter

New York City officials reached an agreement on Friday to modify the city’s unique right to shelter rules by capping stays for newly arrived migrant adults, following a monthslong court fight over...

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Want to snag an appointment for NYC’s coveted ID card? Join the Friday PM rush.

Appointments for New York City’s municipal identification cards are getting harder to snag as demand for the popular photo IDs surges, but some nonprofit groups helping people apply say they’ve finally...

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Here's how NYC families can get free, quality childcare through a federal...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is calling for more investment in early childhood education to stop New York City's exodus of working- and middle-class residents, who are leaving because they can’t...

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Mayor Adams’ homeless encampment sweeps reached new high last fall

As Mayor Eric Adams doubles down on increasing police visibility to combat what he calls a perception of lawlessness in the city, his administration continued to ratchet up police-involved sweeps of...

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Why child care is so expensive in NYC that it's become a crisis

The New York City Council is urging the Adams administration to reverse $1 billion in planned budget cuts, including $170 million in funding for early childhood education that lawmakers say is crucial...

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A year after Jordan Neely's death, a push to make attacking NY's homeless a...

One year after homeless New Yorker Jordan Neely was choked to death on the New York City subway by a fellow rider, homeless advocates are pushing to reinvigorate a long-dormant bill that could make...

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Gov. Hochul's homeless outreach program has housed 450 New Yorkers in 2 years

A state initiative aimed at helping homeless New Yorkers living on the streets and subways has placed more than 450 individuals in long-term or permanent housing in two years, new data from the...

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Kids in NYC shelters get to celebrate with the 'Birthday Party Project'

An organization dedicated to throwing birthday parties for children living in homeless shelters held its first celebration in New York City this week since the pandemic halted their operations four...

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New housing designed to support young moms in foster care opens in the Bronx

A New York City foster care provider is trying a novel approach to help the young moms in its care: housing them under one roof in apartments equipped with washer-dryer machines and where they can...

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NYC day cares struggle to retain staff, paid less than DOE-employed child...

New York City’s child care centers say it’s increasingly difficult to hire and retain workers because they make thousands of dollars less than their counterparts employed by the city’s public schools,...

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ER visits plummet at housing program for vulnerable New Yorkers after nurses...

In 2015, a nonprofit that helps house hundreds of New Yorkers who have a mental illness or are homeless began hiring nurses to handle non-emergency and preventative care. As a result, avoidable visits...

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Did you know there's low-cost extended day care in NYC? What you need to know...

Applying for a New York City program to help families offset child care costs can be so onerous that many providers say seats remain unfilled even as most parents across the five boroughs can’t afford...

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They’re about to be evicted from low-cost apartments. Attorneys say NYC can...

Mayor Eric Adams’ refusal to implement a set of laws meant to expand access to key rental assistance subsidies is putting some New Yorkers at risk of homelessness and threatening to strain the city’s...

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This summer camp offers refuge for NYC's record-high youth homeless population

As the population of children living in New York City shelters reaches unprecedented highs, with enough homeless kids to fill Yankee Stadium, a longtime summer camp is offering these young New Yorkers...

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Breaking up with NYC: Families leave in droves over childcare cost,...

Families with young children are increasingly grappling with whether to leave the five boroughs in search of more affordable child care and housing.The exodus of families from the Big Apple worsened...

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Federal cuts to SNAP benefits would crush 1.8M NYers who rely on them, city...

New York City officials and anti-hunger groups are bracing for deep cuts by Republicans in Congress to the federal food stamp program that feeds more residents than ever before: 1.8 million people...

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Will Republicans in Washington Make New Yorkers Hungrier?

Experts anticipate deep cuts to federal food assistance programs by the Republican-led Congress in this year's budget negotiations set to take place in September. Karen Yi, WNYC and Gothamist reporter...

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NYC offers developers a deal: Build affordable units, we'll help cover...

New York City officials are trying out a novel way to move longtime residents of homeless shelters into new permanent housing — by guaranteeing most of their rent.

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7K NYC families could lose child care subsidies each month under state budget...

Tens of thousands of New York City families would lose their child care vouchers under the state’s proposed budget — a move that advocates say would leave parents unable to work and force day care...

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When you gotta go: NYC Council vows to make it easier to find a public bathroom

Places to go when you've got to go will double in New York City over the next decade, under a bill passed by the City Council Thursday. NYC has among the fewest commodes per capita among large U.S....

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NYPD removed 27K homeless people from the streets last year — mostly in...

Police helped remove more than 27,000 homeless people from the street over a nine-month period last year, mostly in Lower Manhattan and Midtown, according to city data. But whether they ended up in a...

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NYC shuts down child care subsidy enrollment amid feud with Hochul

New York City on Monday will stop enrolling new families seeking child care vouchers, amid an escalating feud with the state over who should pay for the popular program that helps thousands of...

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NYC wants to make it easier for nonprofits to own homeless shelters. Here's...

A new 95-bed shelter for families with children opened last month thanks to a city tool that helps nonprofits own the shelters they manage. New York City officials said the model will help shelter...

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'You never think it will be you': NYC child welfare removals show racial...

Briana Hunt was picking up extra work at a hair salon in Washington, D.C., when she got a chilling phone call: Her 1-year-old daughter had nearly drowned in the bathtub in their Bronx apartment while...

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These landlords promised to house dozens of once homeless New Yorkers. Now...

Landlords who get public money to house the most vulnerable New Yorkers — including people who were recently homeless and those with mental illness and substance abuse disorder — sought eviction...

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IDs, coats, a microwave: the few items stored during NYC homeless encampment...

A health insurance card, a 10-speed mountain bike, a blue men’s jacket and a microwave are among the few belongings stored by New York City officials this year after they cleared homeless people from...

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This mobile clinic rolls up to homeless New Yorkers who need mental health...

Two days a week, an RV-like van parks outside a Chelsea soup kitchen with a licensed psychiatrist on board offering care to anyone who wants it. There’s no need for a referral, insurance or a prior...

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Trump tax bill guts $29M program helping New Yorkers eat healthier on a budget

At Fairmont Neighborhood School in the Bronx last week, an eagle-eyed kindergartener just tall enough to peer over a row of elevated flower beds spotted a small red bulb covered with tiny seeds. “The...

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These are the New Yorkers who could lose SNAP benefits under Trump rules

New York City officials and food pantry organizers say thousands of SNAP recipients are at risk of losing their benefits under President Trump’s sweeping tax cut measure.  Republicans say the tax and...

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It’s 2025, but a quarter of Bronx families don’t have broadband internet at...

Al Christian says he doesn’t have internet at his Bronx home because he can’t afford the utility bill. That makes it hard to look for work since most applications and job listings are now online. It...

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Thousands of NY and NJ families need subsidized childcare and can’t get it

Child care is becoming increasingly unaffordable for families. That’s why more parents in New Jersey and New York are relying on subsidized vouchers to help pay for it. But while both states have...

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NYC immigrants want safer, better-paying work. A major hurdle: building...

Inside a small house in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, seven Bangladeshi women sat around a large table earlier this month, trying to figure out how to mute themselves on Zoom. It was the...

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