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City pays 3 homeless men after cops threw out their belongings
Proving the old adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure, the city has paid $1,515 to three homeless men whose belongings were thrown out by cops and sanitation...
Public advocate has an idea on how to fix the homeless crisis
Public Advocate Letitia James stoked the ongoing feud between Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo when she suggested Friday that the "only way" the city can dig itself out of...
De Blasio 'dissatisfied' with efforts against homelessness
Six months after downplaying the homelessness crisis, Mayor de Blasio on Thursday pointed to his administration’s inability to get a handle on the issue as his biggest disappointment of the...
Vagrant busted after scuffle with Port Authority cops
A homeless man tried to grab a cop’s gun at the Port Authority Bus terminal during a tense skirmish Friday morning, authorities said. The incident unfolded about 9:15 a.m. –...
De Blasio finally accepts blame for city's homeless crisis
Nearly three years into his administration, Mayor Bill de Blasio finally accepted responsibility for the city's homeless crisis. "I own it," he said on WNYC's Brian Lehrer program on Wednesday....
City's homeless shelters reach record-high population numbers
The population of the city’s homeless shelters has hit a record high as the number of families and single adults with nowhere to live continues to rise under Mayor de Blasio’s...
Bums are converting bank vestibules into their own bedrooms
Bums are turning Bay Ridge bank vestibules into their personal bedrooms and now locals are too scared to use the ATMs. Vagrants sometimes set up full-blown bed chambers - sleeping...
City officials had no idea New Yorkers are so porn-starved
City officials admitted Tuesday that they had no idea New Yorkers were so porn-obsessed — or that creeps would rampantly use free web browsing kiosks to indulge their guilty pleasures....
De Blasio's church-based homeless solution fails to gain traction
Not even divine intervention could help Mayor de Blasio with the homeless crisis. More than a year after the mayor used the pending visit of Pope Francis in a plan...
NYC homeless population reaches historically tragic number
The number of homeless people in city shelters has exceeded 60,000 for the first time in history, official data revealed Wednesday. There are now 60,017 individuals being put up by...
Homeless shelter violence rates nearly double after data tweak
The number of violent and other serious incidents reported in the city’s homeless shelters more than doubled in one year after officials revamped the way the incidents were classified. The...
Bronx officials fume at de Blasio's failure to remove homeless from motel
The city is reneging on a promise to remove the homeless from a motel in Riverdale where an accused bank robber had lived, angry Bronx officials charged Tuesday. Homeless individuals...
Bum caught masturbating in broad daylight next to Wi-Fi kiosk
This homeless man brought the wrong kind of jack to one of the city's new internet-enabled charging stations. A Murray Hill resident was horrified when she witnessed a vagrant masturbating...
This guy is the worst person in New York
A lowlife crook showed that nothing is sacred anymore — swiping a wheelchair-bound, 93-year-old woman’s pension money right out of her bra as she shopped for new slippers, a startling...
Vagrants living under scaffolding are turning Noho into Skid Row
An influx of vagrants is turning Noho into Skid Row, according to outraged residents and workers in the Manhattan neighborhood. Homeless people have started camping out under the profusion of...
Let's not forget the real victim in Anthony Weiner's latest scandal
He’s the saddest, most neglected little tyke imaginable. When Anthony Weiner’s then-3½-year-old son wandered, innocently, into the lonely bed occupied by his demented daddy, he could not have understood the...
Drug dispute leads to gunfire in Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park, already exposed by The Post for being an open-air drug market, was the scene of gunfire Wednesday night. The gunman approached his 29-year-old victim around 11:05 p.m.,...
De Blasio: New Yorkers can take care of Wi-Fi kiosk problems themselves
Mayor de Blasio admitted on Tuesday that the city’s new free Wi-Fi kiosks are not properly policed — but said tough New Yorkers will find a way to work it...
De Blasio has somehow made the homeless problem worse
If you build it or lease it or own it, they will come — and keep coming and keep coming, until you have no place to put them all. That’s...
Wi-Fi kiosks have become living rooms for vagrants
Hey, it’s cheaper than getting an apartment. Bums have been turning the city’s free curbside Wi-Fi kiosks into their own personal living rooms, setting up chairs, watching movies — and...