Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com By Greg B. Smith Over the weekend the city’s homeless services agency began housing migrant men in a newly opened 400-bed shelter that sits alongside Brooklyn’s polluted Gowanus Canal — before state environmental officials have begun planned testing of the site for potential toxic contamination. The Department of Social […]
Migrants wait in line outside the St. Brigid shelter re-ticketing site in the East Village, Dec. 7, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan New York City can restrict shelter stays for adult migrants to a single 30-day placement, with extensions granted only under “extenuating circumstances,” according to the terms of a settlement reached Friday between city […]
The Streetwork Project youth drop-in shelter in Harlem provides legal services for dozens of migrants, March 5, 2024. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan In the depths of January, without a coat on his back, an 18-year-old orphan from Guinea named Mamdou spent a week riding the subways, before a stranger handed him a $20 bill […]
Workers bring supplies to the Hall Street migrant family shelter in Brooklyn, Feb. 21, 2024. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 23, 2024 A massive migrant shelter in a complex of converted warehouses on Hall Street in Clinton Hill that opened last summer with no public announcement has since grown to house around 3,000 people. Officials […]
Editorial credit: Jose Carrera / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 22, 2024 Austin, Texas – On Tuesday evening, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his office was suing and accusing of human smuggling the Annunciation House, a Catholic nonprofit organization that operates shelters and provides humanitarian assistance in El Paso, Texas. For example, after federal border officials process […]
Dozens of migrants waited in the cold outside the St. Brigid re-ticketing site in the East Village, Nov. 28, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | February 14, 2024 The Adams administration intends to close by Feb. 26 the five overnight waiting rooms where hundreds of adult migrants have spent nights on the floor or in […]
Editorial credit: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 New York, NY — A recent article in The New York Times highlights how New Yorkers are helping migrant families find housing and ensuring their children have access to basic needs. New Yorkers understand the mutual benefits behind helping migrants and that if the state wants […]
Editorial credit: Philip Pilosian / Shutterstock.com By Daniel Parra | January 30, 2024 | City Limits “It looks like a coughing choir in that tent,” said Luis Zambrano, 62, who came down with pneumonia this winter while staying at the shelter complex on Randall’s Island, where the city has been housing thousands of newly arrived immigrants. […]
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 19, 2024 | Documented The migrant men lay their blankets on the wood floor, where they would spend the night. Many had not been able to shower in more than a week. Others said they felt sick as their coughs echoed through the room. The recent snowstorm added […]
Editorial credit: Mircea Moira / Shutterstock.com By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | January 17, 2024 |Documented As snow fell on New York City Tuesday morning, dozens of migrants continued to wait outside the city’s reticketing center at the now-closed St. Brigid’s Catholic School on East 7th Street in below freezing temperatures. They wore beanies, […]