A family leaves the Roosevelt Hotel shelter as migrants began to receive eviction notices, Jan. 9, 2024. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gabriel Poblette Nearly a year after New York state took step...
DiNapoli: NYC Immigrant Workforce Below 2015 Peak
Federal Policies Still Weighing on City’s Labor Force The size of New York City’s immigrant workforce was flat over nearly a decade, according to a new report from New York State Comptroller...
Adult Migrants Limited to 30-Day Stay in ‘Right-to-Shelter’ Settlement
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 ...
As Number of Asylum Seekers in City’s Care Tops 64,100, City Announces Additional Policies for Asylum Seekers in City Shelters
By Mayor’s Office | October 16, 2023 Announcement Builds on City’s Work Offering Intensified Casework Services and Distributing Notices to Adults Upon Opening, Floyd Bennett Field to Serve App...
Need Immigration Papers? Try Your Luck at Manhattan’s Overwhelmed Federal Building
New immigrants wait on a rainy Monday morning to get into 26 Federal Plaza. Gabriel Poblete/THE CITY | Sept 18, 2023 By Gabriel Poblete | SEP 20, 2023 Only 600 people a day can be served by ICE at 26 ...
‘No hate; no fear: Immigrants are welcome here.’ Pro-migrant rally held on Staten Island
Editorial credit: Leonard Zhukovsky / Shutterstock.com By Scott R. Axelrod, Staten Island Advance Sep. 19—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Several dozen people from Staten Island and other boroughs gathered ...
City Hall About to Put Migrants in Shelters on Shorter Clocks
Migrants outside of a shelter in Brooklyn. Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | Sept. 19, 2023 Adults who reapply for shelter will have just 30 days, and families with children may be given their ow...
Adams: Cost of migrants ‘will destroy New York City’
Mayor Eric Adams helps distribute donated food and clothing to families of asylum seekers housed in the city at public school 20 in New York on February 11, 2023 (Photo: Shutterstock) By Jeff Coltin...
600 Children Would Lose Child Care With End of Free NYC Program for Undocumented Families
Mayor Eric Adams speaks during briefing on arrest of suspects in connection to 2 men drugged, robbed and killed at NYPD Headquarters in New York on April 18, 2023 (Shutterstock) Mayor Eric Adams’ pr...
New York City to Grant Noncitizens the Right to Vote
A voter wears her “I Voted” sticker on Election Day in New York (Shutterstock) By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Documented NY New York City will become the largest municipality in the na...