The past few months have been full of difficult times: The coronavirus epidemic has triggered the shutdown of our economy and there have been widespread protests and a national count over racial inequality, police reform and death minority Americans in the hands of...
New York City will continue housing thousands of homeless residents in commercial hotels for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. The city’s Department of Homeless of Services has moved about 13,000 adults out of congregate...
The dad in central Nassau had been rummaging through his transgender 22-year-old’s bedroom during the coronavirus pandemic’s peak and found a doctor’s instructions for taking testosterone. There was yelling. “Get out,” the dad said to A. “Fine.” Within hours, A. was...
The Lucerne Hotel, located at 201 West 79th Street on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue, will soon be utilized as a “temporary de-densification site” to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at two East Village shelters. The anticipated move-in date is July 27, at which point...
Across Manhattan, many New Yorkers are noticing a spike in homelessness. People are sleeping on the streets and in other cases hotels as part of the city’s coronavirus program, CBS2’s Andrea Grymes reported Wednesday. Under scaffolding near the Lincoln Tunnel sits a...
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why we marginalize them, and what can be done to unmarginalize them. To convey the seriousness of this problem, this discussion will center...
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