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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…

World

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…

World

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…

World

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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New York City Sues Bus Companies That Brought 30,000 Migrants From Texas

The lawsuit accuses 17 companies of carrying out a plan by the governor of Texas to send tens of thousands…

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The Newest ‘Godzilla’ Film Is Stranger Than Fiction

Effects artists annihilate cities in movies all the time. Tokyo really was destroyed, a reality the best Godzilla stories have…

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Will Detroit’s Comeback Benefit Detroiters?

I found it online: a weary, five-bedroom American Foursquare house on a block in Detroit that had seen better days.…

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He Was One of the Central Park Five. Now He’s Councilman Yusef Salaam.

Yusef Salaam stood at the front of the City Council Chamber in Lower Manhattan with his right hand raised and…

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I Want a City, Not a Museum

Some years ago, as my mother and I were walking on New York City’s Upper West Side, she pointed out…

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