Sentences with phrase «homeless shelter»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's new homeless shelter plan, which includes no total price tag for the shelters and no details about where they will be located, could mark a near - impossible task as the mayor faces re-election on an issue that has sparked massive opposition in parts of the city and is widely acknowledged as one of the mayor's most intractable problems.

Bloomberg and NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn are still tight despite the council's lawsuit challenging his homeless shelter policy.

A Manhattan homeless shelter overseen by Cuomo's sister has been repeatedly cited for deteriorating safety and health conditions — culminating last year with the death of an infant.

«I wish they would supply us with a building and let us run our own homeless shelter alongside their services.

Suffolk County has replaced homeless shelter provider Project ReDirect Inc. after comptroller audits found the Babylon - based non-profit had overcharged the county by nearly $ 1.3 million.

The tenants, many of whom don't speak English, were sent to a homeless shelter in East New York, where they were packed six to a room.

We reported (in a BxNN exclusive, I might add) on Wednesday that Diaz was boycotting a meeting to prevent the mayor from voting to turn Muller into a homeless shelter.

More on the opening of a men's homeless shelter in Highbridge, which has upset a number of residents in the area.

As for the ghost vets, county officials tell the curious that the facility was not intended to be a boarding house, i.e. homeless shelter, and that its occupants are required to seek work or treatment during the day.

Johnson told the crowd that despite progress, the city faces an affordability crisis, with more than 60,000 people living in the homeless shelter system, racial disparities in «nearly every aspect of life» and «fiscal realities» presented by Washington and Albany.

He adds one paragraph later, «For this reason alone, the plan to locate a homeless shelter at the Muller facility is seriously flawed and should be reconsidered.»

From the beginning, the mayor's office has insisted the site become a homeless shelter, saying there is a need for more beds and the Bronx isn't doing its part in housing homeless men.

Former Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined Mayor Bill de Blasio for a press conference at a homeless shelter today.

Aside from a statement read on behalf of Gibbs in support of the homeless shelter plan, Diaz says everyone who testified or wrote in opposed the shelter plan.

He also served as an Otsego County legislator and in that capacity worked with a nonprofit agency to establish a homeless shelter in his district.

11:00 AM — CM Andy King and Bronx residents rally to oppose the opening of a homeless shelter that was initially promoted as a market rate apartment building for middle - income working families, 3677 White Plains Road, Bronx.

A Bronx community board is urging the Department of Investigation to probe former Borough President Adolfo Carrión and a local developer for «misrepresentation» in turning a new 83 - unit building in Kingsbridge into a homeless shelter.

July 31 — CM Andy King joins community protest rally against homeless shelter at 3677 White Plains Road, Bronx.

A new analysis of the mayor's preliminary budget also says that homeless shelter costs could soar.

«It's the administration's job to decide what is the most appropriate location for a homeless shelter or a public hospital or a jail and then present that plan to the Council.

In the letter, Diaz details the long, controversy - filled story of the LRA's efforts over the past two years, culminating in the mayor's office sending of submission of its homeless shelter recommendation on June 29 without input or authorization from Diaz's office.

CHELSEA — The Bowery Residents Committee offered Chelsea stakeholders a tour of its controversial West 25th Street homeless shelter, now slated to begin moving in clients around July 1.

«I've watched too many buildings in my 54 years sit empty,» Kendall Jackman, who is currently staying in a homeless shelter in the Bronx, said while walking up Ninth Avenue.

«Some audits are pure quantifications: Count how many people are in a homeless shelter.

But Cuomo balked when the Observer suggested he was undermining his own case for having the comptroller review New York's homeless shelter system, a task he gave DiNapoli in his State of the State address in January.

But at least 40 neighbors are complaining about one building in particular, which the Bowery Residents» Committee is renovating to become a 12 - story homeless shelter.

He opened a Ben & Jerry's store in Harlem with homeless shelter residents as his employees.

Also at 11 a.m, NYC Councilman Andy King and Bronx residents rally to oppose the opening of a homeless shelter that was initially promoted as a market rate apartment building for middle - income working families, 3677 White Plains Road, Bronx.

A Bronx community board is urging the NYC Department of Investigation to probe former Borough President Adolfo Carrión and a local developer for «misrepresentation» in turning a new 83 - unit building in Kingsbridge into a homeless shelter.

A Girl Scouts troop established in February at a homeless shelter in Queens will expand to 14 additional shelters throughout New York City and is expected to serve about 500 girls.

Also at 11 a.m., the Legal Aid Society, Coalition For The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Brooklyn Daily article on BP Adams and community leaders expressing concerns about a proposed homeless shelter in Coney Island.

«Natalie Abreu, a single mother of three, lived in a homeless shelter in the Bronx, while commuting to her job as a cleaner at a casino in Queens.

DNAInfo article on BP Adams joining Mayor de Blasio at a town hall in Bedford - Stuyvesant that focused on a new homeless shelter plan for the city.

A violence - plagued Brooklyn homeless shelter has a new affliction — epic levels of rats, roaches and trash, according to residents and workers.

Former NYC media player Sherman Jackson now finds himself living in homeless shelter after life took «unfathomable» downward spiral.

Despite criticism from local elected officials, de Blasio said the city does not need to provide advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. accused the Bloomberg administration of lying to him and misleading the federal government about the placement of a homeless shelter.

The de Blasio administration is accusing the Cuomo administration of recklessly leaking a false report of the gang rape in a homeless shelter to a tabloid, in what a NYC commissioner described as a «political media hit» designed to make the city look bad.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Each day, extra food that can not be served again could be dropped at a food bank or homeless shelter.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

«We've seen a lot of hunger in our area,» said Washington, who helps run a homeless shelter for Holy Angels Baptist Church in Englewood.

I can't believe food could not be donated to a homeless shelter because it was ONLY for the lunch program.

But, volunteering together at a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter could remind your teen to be a giver, not just a taker.

I have never been in the homeless shelter thanks to friends and family but several of my friends have.

My career has included working as an after - school program director, healthy relationships / sexual health educator, community connector for an elementary school, homeless shelter co-facilitator and leading teen mission trips.

If I meet nice, attractive woman helping out at the homeless shelter or teaching an immigrant English, I know where her heart and mind is — and that makes her more alluring 10 times over.

Take the box to your local homeless shelter or food bank and pat yourself on the back: you have now done a good thing for yourself and for others.

Like a handful of it will automatically transport you to a mountaintop that you scaled to help raise money for the homeless shelter kind of healthy.