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Three affordable housing lotteries in Brooklyn and the Bronx
Want to live in an apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows and a rooftop terrace overlooking the Gowanus? Or in a prewar building near the Bronx Zoo with renovated rooms and brand-new fixtures? Three affordable housing lotteries that may help you reach these dreams are closing in late February or early March. In the Bronx, a lottery…
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.
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