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New York City’s Housing Crunch Is the Worst It Has Been in Over 50 Years

Only 1.4 percent of the city’s rentals were available in 2023, according to new data, the lowest portion since 1968.

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The Struggle to Treat Mentally Ill People on the Street

An audit found that the city doesn’t really know if a program to treat severely mentally ill people is working.…

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We Need to Restore the Soul of New York City

Over the past decade, there has been much hand-wringing about New York’s puzzling empty storefront problem, with vacancy rates sitting…

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Read Your Way Through Lagos

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of…

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Nearly 2,000 Migrants Are Evacuated From Brooklyn Tent Shelter Before Storm

New York City evacuated on Tuesday about 500 families with children — nearly 2,000 people in total — from a…

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New York City Hid Realities of Homelessness Crisis, Report Finds

City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center…

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New York Begins Evicting Migrant Families Who Hit a Shelter Time Limit

On Tuesday, families with children had to pack up their belongings and either find somewhere else to live or line…

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Wealthy Donors Pull Back From New York City’s Escalating Problems

Philanthropists worry that the city’s complex tangle of crises — migrants, homelessness, housing, the cost of living — cannot be…

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Baudelaire Would Be Run Over in New York City Today

In his 1863 essay “The Painter of Modern Life,” Charles Baudelaire described the passionate city dweller as “a kaleidoscope gifted…

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Why New York Has Faltered in Making Childbirth Safer for Black Mothers

Proposals to reverse stark racial disparities in who dies during childbirth face deep-rooted obstacles, including hospital quality and the pandemic’s…

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