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Ending soon: Lottery to rent a Flatbush one-bedroom starting at $784
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What can you do if someone is out in the cold?
As of Monday, Feb. 9, officials had counted 18 suspected cold-weather deaths among New Yorkers found outside during the city’s longest stretch of below-freezing temperatures since 1958. According to news reports, some of the dead had been given placements in city shelters but had declined to go, saying they feared getting robbed or attacked. Others…
Ending soon: Three NYC affordable housing lotteries across three boroughs
Three affordable housing lotteries in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan are closing in the next few days. They include units whose rents start as low as $752 per month for a Mitchell-Lama development in the Bronx, $814 for a new Brooklyn rental building on Myrtle Avenue and $940 for a Manhattan high-rise near the East…
Setting out on our own
As New York joins a global health network, a glimpse of a U.S. that looks more like the EU.
How to talk to kids stressed about ICE
The kids are not OK, psychologists tell us, when it comes to fear of immigration enforcement. Therapists in the city serving immigrant or mixed-status families have seen requests for mental health services nearly triple in recent months. “Children are terrified of going to school, not knowing if they have a family to go back home…
The Perils of Normalizing ICE Insanity
We can get used to a lot, but we shouldn’t get used to this. A dive into normalcy bias, the Epstein files, and the engineered decay of our political system.
NYC joins National Shutdown Friday to protest ICE enforcement and deaths
A wide range of residents, businesses and labor organizers across New York City are joining the strike on Friday for a day of no work, no school and no shopping. The action is meant to protest the federal immigration enforcement operations that have left at least eight people dead in the first month of 2026.…
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