Families

Hunger

As Food Pantries Close, Immigrant Communities’ Needs Grow

April 18, 2022, 6:21 p.m.Nov. 13, 2023, 2:53 p.m.

The demand for food resources continues to grow for many New Yorkers, but closures of community run pantries have resulted in difficulty accessing food banks.

Education

Some NYC Schools Struggling to Spend Federal Relief Funds

Feb. 28, 2022, 4:39 p.m.Feb. 28, 2022, 4:39 p.m.

The promise of more than $7 billion in federal COVID relief funding for New York City schools inspired some families and educators to dream big.

Environment

Oven Pilot Gives NYCHA Residents Induction Stoves for Air-Quality Project

Feb. 14, 2022, 6:46 p.m.May 2, 2023, 12:35 p.m.

Twenty Bronx tenants will participate in a hot environmental experiment for the next six months.

Homelessness

Families Get Rejected from Homeless Shelter Without Required Review, Comptroller Audit Finds

Feb. 10, 2022, 5:37 p.m.Feb. 11, 2022, 11:38 a.m.

A pre-pandemic review determines the Department of Homeless Services failed to complete many investigations or help applicants fill in missing information.

Homelessness

Give Homeless Families a Break, Shelter Providers Urge Mayor Adams

Feb. 7, 2022, 7:11 p.m.Feb. 7, 2022, 7:11 p.m.

With three in four shelter applications rejected, advocates demand permanent adoption of a pandemic pause on children cycling in and out of a Bronx intake center.

Homelessness

Three in Four Family Shelter Applications Rejected in 2021, Setting Record

Jan. 30, 2022, 6:26 p.m.Jan. 30, 2022, 6:26 p.m.

Homeless families are getting city decisions to deny shelter overturned in growing numbers — and applying over and over again.

Small Business

New York’s 100-Year-Old Businesses Offer Lessons in Survival

Jan. 19, 2022, 7:33 p.m.Oct. 28, 2022, 2:25 p.m.

These savvy centenarians have anchored communities and weathered crises from the Great Depression to COVID. Can they withstand further uncertainty?

Mental Health

Why Are Latina Moms in New York Reporting Such High Levels of Anxiety and Depression?

Jan. 17, 2022, 8:45 p.m.Jan. 18, 2022, 5:28 p.m.

The pandemic’s emotional strains are falling especially heavy on communities hit hardest by COVID, unemployment and child care challenges.

The Bronx

These Are the 17 Victims of the Bronx Twin Parks Fire

Jan. 12, 2022, 8:03 p.m.Jan. 12, 2022, 8:21 p.m.

They came from countries in West Africa, nearly all of them from Gambia, and settled in Twin Parks Towers Northeast, a 19-story apartment building full of working class families from the region and Latin America. Some of them were born here to parents from Gambia, volunteering in local community groups, attending local mosques, enrolling in […]

Education

City to Make It Easier for Siblings to Attend Same Middle School

Jan. 12, 2022, 3:10 p.m.Jan. 12, 2022, 3:10 p.m.

The Department of Education policy affects roughly 9,000 out of about 80,000 fifth graders who have siblings in the same grade or sixth grade.

Families

As Food Pantries Close, Immigrant Communities’ Needs Grow

Some NYC Schools Struggling to Spend Federal Relief Funds

Oven Pilot Gives NYCHA Residents Induction Stoves for Air-Quality Project

Families Get Rejected from Homeless Shelter Without Required Review, Comptroller Audit Finds

Give Homeless Families a Break, Shelter Providers Urge Mayor Adams

Three in Four Family Shelter Applications Rejected in 2021, Setting Record

New York’s 100-Year-Old Businesses Offer Lessons in Survival

Why Are Latina Moms in New York Reporting Such High Levels of Anxiety and Depression?

These Are the 17 Victims of the Bronx Twin Parks Fire

City to Make It Easier for Siblings to Attend Same Middle School

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