ThriveNYC
Thrive AWOL again as hospitals use COVID as excuse for cutting vital psychiatric beds
New York desperately needs more psychiatric beds to handle often-homeless patients with serious mental illness, but the insiders keep reducing the count instead because they’d rather focus on more-easily-treatable disorders....
Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help over psych-ward closures
A Brooklyn nurse says he repeatedly tried to warn city First Lady Chirlane McCray about the devastating effect of reassigning psych wards to be used for COVID-19 patients — only...
Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free
What will it take for the city to finally address the clear danger posed by severely mentally ill walking city streets and haunting the subway? An unhinged man tossed a...
De Blasio directs New Yorkers to ThriveNYC hotline amid subway crime uptick
Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers to call a hotline run by his wife's oft-criticized $1.25 billion ThriveNYC program when asked how he planned to address the city's mentally...
Hey, Joe Biden, what did you know about Hunter's dirty deals?: Goodwin
Now that some secrets of the Biden family business are no longer secrets, it’s easy to imagine Joe Biden asking the same question Robert Redford asked in the 1972 film...
De Blasio's big effort to push his wife into politics fizzles out
Mayor Bill de Blasio spared no expense to burnish the image of his wife, Chirlane McCray -- but like many of his big bucks plans it all came to nothing....
McCray's $1.25B ThriveNYC hotline missed targets despite COVID-19 surge
The mental health hotline that's a cornerstone of the $1.25 billion mental health plan run by Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife saw a 17 percent surge in calls during the...
No HERO: de Blasio wife Chirlane McCray's COVID-19 trauma program left out EMTs
During the height of the city's coronavirus pandemic in April, New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray went on CNN to decry the high rate of suicide attempts by Emergency...
Chirlane McCray expresses 'relief' over lack of public events during COVID-19
First lady Chirlaine McCray said she basked in the break from official duties during the start of the city's coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 24,000 New Yorkers. "I think...
By dumping mentally ill prisoners, homeless on streets, de Blasio hurts everyone
Walls riddled with bullet holes. Blood and empty casings on the streets. Syringes and open-air shooting galleries. Addicts walking around in a daze. Emboldened criminals menacing frightened residents. These are...
Head scratcher: Chirlane McCray helming COVID-19 mental-health program for schoolkids
First lady Chirlane McCray -- creator of the billion-dollar-plus boondoggle ThriveNYC mental health initiative -- has now been tasked with helping city schoolkids traumatized by the coronavirus pandemic transition back...
RIP, D.J. Jaffe
New York and the nation just lost one of their biggest advocates for the seriously mentally ill: DJ Jaffe. Jaffe, 65, died Sunday after a 15-year battle with leukemia. Yet...
Touting Kamala Harris as a moderate is a liberal dose of deception: Devine
The New York Times was quick out of the blocks with the Democratic pitch that Kamala Harris is a “pragmatic moderate.” It’s pulling your leg. Joe Biden’s running mate had...
Chirlane McCray's new ThriveNYC website reveals $1.25B program's empty boasts
A closer look at geocoded maps in its “Data Dashboard” reveals missing metrics for over two-thirds of the programs.
ThriveNYC is recruiting new staff despite city's hiring freeze
First Lady Chirlane McCray's embattled ThriveNYC mental-health program is recruiting new staff-- despite Mayor Bill de Blasio's hiring freeze on municipal employees -- and warnings of layoffs for 22,000 city...
NYC sidewalk shover was lost in storm of COVID chaos, city incompetence
For 15 years, New York City has failed Rashid Brimmage — and the people he victimized. The mentally-ill 31-year-old has been in and out of prison and mental hospitals for...
Can't replace policing with social services that don't do what they're supposed to
Black Lives Matter and other activists are calling on cities across the nation to #DefundthePolice. So what would they have us replace law enforcement with? Many are calling for diverting...
NYC leaders slam de Blasio plan to cut frontline workers, suggest slashing ThriveNYC instead
City leaders slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday for his willingness to sacrifice the jobs of city cops, doctors and teachers before cutting the fat from his $89.3 billion spending...
Child advocates slam Chirlane McCray's $1B ThriveNYC program
First Lady Chirlane McCray's $1 billion "ThriveNYC" mental-health program has failed to keep city students out of psych wards -- and advocates are demanding something that actually works, The Post...
McCray and Carranza to implement embattled ThriveNYC programs in schools
Chirlane McCray's embattled mental health plan ThriveNYC has been tasked with helping students traumatized by the coronavirus pandemic — despite criticism that the $1 billion program is costly and ineffective....