Of the thousands of people who’ve passed through an East Village “reticketing site” City Hall opened a month ago to encourage migrants to move somewhere else, just 10% have accepted tickets elsewhere, according to internal data obtained by THE CITY. Of 5,560 people who’ve gone to the reticketing site, just 570 have taken free plane […]
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Posted inCriminal Justice
‘It Should Be Murder,’ Neely Family Says as Daniel Penny Faces Manslaughter Charges
Penny’s arraignment came 12 days after he killed Neely in a crowded subway car in Lower Manhattan.
Posted inEric Adams
‘Eric Adams Please Give Us a Call’: Mayor Hasn’t Reached Out After Jordan Neely Killing, Family Says
A week after Neely was killed in a subway car, Daniel Penny, the man who was recorded putting him in a fatal chokehold, had not been charged.
Posted inTransportation
Man Who Endured ‘Hell On Wheels’ Commute Can Finally Say, ‘I Love New York’
Saheed Adebayo Aare has gone from unstable housing and a nightmare commute to feeling that anything is possible in the Big Apple.
Posted inSocial Services
Young and Restless: City Drop-In Centers Told to Keep Runaway, Homeless Youth Awake at Night
The directive shocked leaders of five overnight facilities that have let youth in crisis lie down on city-sanctioned cots since 2018.
Posted inShelters
NYPD Sweeps Migrants from Manhattan Hotel Sidewalk Following Days of Protest and Uncertainty
Some asylum seekers who had refused to move to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal gave in after cold nights outdoors, while others held out demanding work permits.
Posted inNYPD
City to Pay $135K to Homeless Man Dragged Off Subway by Cops
Police claimed that Joseph T. assaulted them in the May 2020 incident, but body camera footage published by THE CITY showed otherwise.
Posted inPublic Schools
Asylum-Seeking Students Reshape Charter School in Queens
Staff jump in to provide education and many other essentials for an unexpected influx of some six dozen migrant youth.
Posted inImmigrants
Inside the El Paso Operation Busing Thousands of Migrants from Texas to NYC
Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, offers asylum-seekers who just crossed the Rio Grande a free bus ride out of town — as long as it’s to New York or Chicago. Police recently evicted an encampment of people who refused.
Posted inShelters
Mayor Adams Wants to Reassess New York’s Right to Shelter. Can He?
The decades-old shelter policy would have to go back to court to be undone, experts say.