Immigration and housing advocates are stepping up calls for Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to expedite the closure of high-profile migrant shelters ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Donald Trump is returning to the White House, according to election results from the Associated Press, and he’s promised policy changes in his second term that could be deeply felt in New York.
Each night, Tsomo Dasel, the owner of Himalayan Yak restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, lets some of her staff leave work hours before closing. The measure is protective: Most of her employees, she said, are female and are regularly accosted by men on the street seeking paid sex.
Mayor Eric Adams applauded President Joe Biden’s decision to slow the influx of new migrants by temporarily closing the border, but he brushed off questions about whether he was even invited to Tuesday’s announcement.
A new version of a bill that aims to expand public health coverage to undocumented migrants is racing against time as health and immigrant organizations push lawmakers to get it to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk.
Black migrants in New York City are more likely than their Latin American counterparts to receive an eviction notice from a city shelter, go without food or lack warm clothing, according to a report released on Thursday by three immigrant rights and community-based organizations.