The population of NYC’s main shelter system was 36 people shy of the all-time record yesterday.

Today, at least 9 more migrant buses arrived.

A look at Mayor Eric Adams's State of Emergency, w/Emma G. Fitzsimmons

nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyr…

Long but thorough 🧵on nyc homeless sweeps, including eyewitness account of aggressive trashing of belongings of woman physically restrained by police from rescuing her stuff.

.Mayor Eric Adams last week: parking lot in Bronx flood zone is the 'best location' for migrant tent complex.

Saturday: It rains <1' and the site floods.

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday: Cancel that, we're moving it to Randalls Island nytimes.com/2022/10/04/nyr…

As of 2016, Kansas had over 16,000 brands: agriculture.ks.gov/docs/default-s…

Fascinating story about the complex symbolism of a bulldozer from Tracey Tully nytimes.com/2022/09/25/nyr…

Congrats to two terrific journalists, Ashley Southall (Ashley THEE $Southall) and Troy Closson (@troy_closson), who are taking on important new beats for @nytmetro.
bit.ly/3qZl6BJ

You might think, from the fact that NYC is about to start housing migrants in tents, that homelessness is at record levels.

But as recently as 2019, there were thousands more in shelters than now.

Why the city can't just turn the clock back to 2019:
nytimes.com/2022/09/22/nyr…

Al Siegal died today. He was the longtime gatekeeper of standards and sort of the Demanding Dad of the NYTimes, dispenser of public spankings and day-making compliments in the Greenies, his weekly rundown of hits and misses. He is greatly missed. nytimes.com/2022/09/21/bus…

the pharmacy in our local Duane Reade in brooklyn closed 2 hours ahead of schedule because (store worker said) no one to staff it. every other duane reade pharmacy that’s supposedly open on saturday evenings seems to be closed. what is going on?

Was Mayor Eric Adams really suggesting trying to kill the right to shelter?

By end of day, his spokesman Fabien Levy said, 'We’re not trying to get rid of right to shelter.'

But the whole homeless system, mayor says, needs to be 'reassessed': nytimes.com/2022/09/14/nyr… w/Emma G. Fitzsimmons

incredible story and you will cry at the end.

NYC denied shelter Monday night to at least 60 men, in violation of the right-to-shelter law, The Legal Aid Society says. Many were migrant asylum seekers.

nytimes.com/2022/09/13/nyr…

A Dept of Homeless Services officer was suspended for hitting a migrant asylum seeker in the face at a Brooklyn shelter.

The confrontation started after the man, who had returned at 6 am from working overnight, was slow to wake at 8 am:

nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyr…

Nuestro artículo en la primera plana sobre las dificultades a las que se enfrenta Nueva York para acomodar a los miles de migrantes que llegan en autobús desde la frontera. También lo pueden leer en español:
nytimes.com/es/2022/08/23/…
con Raúl Vilchis