ThriveNYC
Kathryn Garcia has 'no idea' what happened to $1B for ThriveNYC
Mayoral hopeful Kathryn Garcia said Thursday she has no clue how Mayor de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray spent $1 billion on her mental illness project ThriveNYC -- with so little...
Street menaces are de Blasio’s parting gift
As Bill de Blasio wraps up the final year of his malfeasant mayoralty, he is leaving a parting gift of street harassers targeting New Yorkers just in time for the...
Mayoral candidate McGuire proposes tripling funding for treatment of mentally ill
Mayoral candidate Ray McGuire would more than triple the current funding to oversee mandatory treatment of dangerously mentally ill people if he was elected to lead City Hall.
Still hopeless on NYC's homeless
New York City Transit President Sarah Feinberg minced no words Sunday in slamming the homeless advocates who “have sort of decided that the subway is a reasonable place for folks...
City GOP candidates demand probe of de Blasio and wife over $1B ThriveNYC
Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa and Constantin Jean-Pierre, who is running for City Council, both want a deeper look into Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray over their mental health...
De Blasio rebrands wife's $1B ThriveNYC — and makes program permanent
Mayor Bill de Blasio has quietly moved to rename and make permanent first lady Chirlane McCray's embattled billion-dollar ThriveNYC mental health initiative, shifting it to City Hall and creating the...
Curtis Sliwa promises Thrive investigation if elected
Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa says he would shutter and probe the finances of ThriveNYC, First Lady Chirlane McCray's mental health initiative, if elected.
Scott Stringer takes shots at ThriveNYC mental health initiative
City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer took shots Tuesday at ThriveNYC — the de Blasio administration’s beleaguered $1 billion mental health initiative – saying that the program has failed...
City Hall finally announces launch of mental health program
City Hall has finally decided that its new program to divert non-violent mental health calls from the NYPD will launch in Harlem and East Harlem -- three months after rolling...
Hiring delays push back NYC program to help the mentally ill
A New York City pilot program to send social workers instead of cops to handle 911 calls involving the mentally ill is lacking a key component — the social workers...
Letters to the Editor — Feb. 7, 2021
Mitten ‘privilege’To no surprise, a San Francisco public-school teacher, Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, has written an opinion piece alleging that the “mittens” and “puffy” jacket Sen. Bernie Sanders chose to wear for...
De Blasio's push for new ThriveNYC waste is latest low of his fake mayoralty
New York City’s co-mayors, doubling down on derangement, say their Christmas gift to Gotham will be 150 new social workers. Oh goody, because a city teetering on COVID-driven bankruptcy can...
Bill de Blasio triples down on worthless ThriveNYC
What New York's schoolchildren really need now, Mayor Bill de Blasio told the city on Monday, is . . . a mental-health quiz and more social workers. Yes, the mayor...
De Blasio announces ThriveNYC expansion at DOE, offers few details
Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray rolled out a plan Monday for boosting counseling services for young people struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic -- but included few...
NYC's lawlessness has gotten so bad that even criminals are giving advice
“This could be avoided if you just get the drugs off the street,” Lawrence Downey, a career criminal accused of fatally knifing a WWE star’s brother, told cops.
The system failed them — then they threw innocents onto the subway tracks
As though things weren’t dismal enough, subway-track pushings have now become part of the “new normal” in Mayor de Blasio’s New York. What used to be terrifying but rare is...
NYC needs to make mentally ill street menaces a top priority
One year ago, the “Chinatown murders” led coverage in New York newspapers. Four homeless men were beaten to death one night in early October 2019, allegedly by a man with...
Kendra's Law might have prevented Times Square subway push, advocate says
A law that could curb or prevent tragedy on city streets is not invoked as often as it should be, data show and advocates claim. "Kendra's Law" was enacted 21...
It's once again time, boys and girls, for the Bill & Chirl Hour
New York City’s low-comedy co-mayoralty was heard from again this week, as Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray announced a trial scheme to send social workers instead of cops to...
Mayor de Blasio, first lady tout pilot project with no plan or even a name
It’s a new pilot project without a plan — or even a name — being overseen by New York City first lady Chirlane McCray’s embattled billion-dollar ThriveNYC program. Mayor Bill...