The demand that President Biden ease the migrant crisis threatening to overwhelm American cities came privately, from the New York governor to top White House officials. It came publicly, in angry statements from Democratic and Republican officials around the country. It came from scores of immigrant rights groups. On Wednesday, the Biden administration relented. In […]
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The Biden administration’s decision to grant special status to Venezuelan migrants will have no greater impact than in New York City, where thousands of immigrants will soon be eligible to begin legally applying for work and eventually move out of taxpayer-funded shelters. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, cast the move as […]
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Is it a case of a wish come true or “be careful what you wish for”? The news that the Biden administration would grant work permits to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who had already entered the United States was welcomed by Democratic leaders from cities overwhelmed with a large influx of migrants unable […]
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Mayor Eric Adams proposed on Thursday a major overhaul of New York City’s approach to development that his administration says could make way for as many as 100,000 additional homes in the coming years and ease the city’s severe housing crisis. The proposed reforms, which Mr. Adams announced in remarks at Borough of Manhattan Community […]
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The Biden administration said late Wednesday that it would allow hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the United States to live and work legally in the country for 18 months. The decision followed intense advocacy by top New York Democrats, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and party leaders in Congress. It will […]
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A contentious plan backed by Mayor Eric Adams and the International Cricket Council to build a temporary, 34,000-seat stadium in a Bronx park is dead, following heated opposition from local elected officials and some amateur cricket players. The stadium was to host part of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup next June. The venue will […]
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For months, as New York City staggered under the impact of more than 110,000 asylum seekers from the southern border, Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded for help from the federal government. On Friday, a show of support arrived: At least 10 Democratic members of Congress, some from as far away as Texas and Los Angeles, […]
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Why It Matters The trade-in program follows a spate of lithium-ion battery fires that have killed 14 people in New York City this year alone and injured more than 100 others. There have been 180 lithium battery fires through Sept. 11. The new trade-in program is in addition to the city’s other efforts to prevent […]
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Coming to a street corner near you: a sleek new litter basket, the latest weapon in New York City’s generations-long war on trash. The new receptacle, which will replace the green wire mesh litter baskets seen across the city, has three parts: a concrete base (so it’s tough to tip over); a hinged metal lid; […]
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Our long-broken immigration system has now become a full-blown crisis with the collapse of the asylum process. The Biden administration has failed to address the steep price many cities are paying for a system they didn’t create and borders the cities don’t control. The White House ought to recognize the political damage the crisis will […]
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Days after saying that an influx of over 110,000 asylum seekers was destroying New York City, Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday directed every city agency to submit plans to reduce spending by up to 15 percent, while renewing his calls for state and federal help to manage the migrant crisis. In a recorded speech, Mr. […]
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President Biden, under pressure to address a surge of migrants who are overwhelming resources in New York and several other American cities, is ramping up efforts to ensure that some of those people can get jobs — a move designed to ease the spiraling political and financial costs of the crisis. After more than two […]
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As of early September, more than 100,000 migrants had arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022. The city has struggled to respond as people from all over the world have arrived, sometimes by the hundreds each week. Many have sought shelter with the city, which has a legal obligation to give beds […]
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Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts, a liberal Democrat, has declared a state of emergency, activated the National Guard and started petitioning the White House for help. The migrants on state-funded buses from Texas are a fraction of the total number arriving in northern cities. Texas brags that its “Operation Lone Star” has sent more than […]
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Mayor Eric Adams escalated his rhetoric over the migrant crisis on Wednesday night, claiming in stark terms that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of migrants from the southern border and saying that he did not see a way to fix the issue. “Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in […]
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From Brooklyn to the Bronx, posters encouraging students to “skip the tricky word” or “look at the picture” as they read have been pulled from bulletin boards. Many elementary school shelves are now stacked with new books that use same-sounding words, emphasizing the repetition of similar letter patterns. And scores of teachers are about to […]
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Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer, ushered in some of New York City’s most sweltering heat of the season. New York City and its surrounding areas are expected to see temperatures in the mid to upper 90s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service, and the heat index, a […]
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