Faced with new deadlines to leave city shelters, some migrants are applying for new stays while others are reconsidering their decisions to settle in NYC.
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Posted inHow to New York
With COVID Surging, Here’s What You Need to Know About Tests, Treatments and Vaccines
Can you still get Paxlovid for free? Where did all the COVID testing sites go? And how do you get the new vaccine?
Posted inShelters
$2.1 Billion in Migrant-Related Contracts Sidestep Oversight, Despite Some Companies’ Checkered Records
Medrite and Aron Security got $450 million to staff more than a dozen shelters under a shroud of secrecy. Even the city comptroller and Council are struggling to find out more as workers and residents clash.
Posted inHealth and Hospitals
Legal Aid Sues to See Canceled Jail Medical Visits Info
The city’s Correctional Health Services is covering up for the Department of Correction’s “incompetence,” the public defenders say.
Posted inMigrant Crisis
Tent Shelter for 1,000 Migrant Men Slated to Open at Creedmoor in August
Officials and advocates all have pushed back on the plan, as the city’s shelter population swells to over 107,300.
Posted inHealth and Hospitals, Homeless Shelters, Migrant Crisis
City Officials Seeking Private Contractors to Open New Migrant Shelters
“Selected vendors must be able to provide full-scale project management support,” according to a Health and Hospitals request for proposals published Monday.
Posted inBrooklyn, Health and Hospitals, Homeless Shelters, Migrant Crisis
New Migrant Shelter Expected To Become Largest Ever
The Clinton Hill site will house more adults in a dormitory setting than at any previous shelter in New York City’s history.
Posted inHealth and Hospitals
Elmhurst Hospital Doctors Strike, Protesting Pay Gap With Mount Sinai
Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.
Posted inLabor
Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Vote to Authorize Strike, Following Jamaica and Flushing Peers
Actions pre-approved by interns and residents who staff three Queens hospitals could see physicians walk off the job in New York City for the first time in a generation.
Posted inNursing
Public Hospital Nurses Invoke a Long Dormant Agreement in Bargaining for Pay Raise
Nurses at Health + Hospitals earn on average $19,000 less than their private sector counterparts. An unused clause on the books could change that.