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Reporters were blocked from covering the arrests and protests on Columbia campus… this was blocks from Pulitzer Hall

In 1968, Columbia University occupied campus buildings to protest the Vietnam War. In 1985, they forced their university to divest from apartheid South Africa. Today, they've set up camp in support of Gaza. hellgatenyc.com/pro-palestine-…

About 30,000 children spent each night in a Department of Homeless Services shelter last year (a number that doesn’t count other shelter systems, like the temporary facilities for migrant families)

w/Karen Yi gothamist.com/news/30k-child…

Hundreds of Black migrants lined up today outside New York City Hall ahead of a council hearing on their experiences.

This isn't even the entire crowd.

Child advocates raised alarm over how the NYC's 60-day move out policy for migrant families w/ children would affect their education. New data shows more than ~1,000 kids~ in shelter left their public schools since policy took effect via Ramsey Khalifeh رمزي خليفة gothamist.com/news/more-than…

the problem with child care in NYC, in a nutshell (via Karen Yi for @gothamist) gothamist.com/news/why-child…

“The fact that we have 2,000 empty units today that could and should be housing people that are struggling before our eyes on our commutes to work, or when we walk our dogs at night, that's a travesty,” said Councilmember Lincoln Restler. “We can fix it and we should.”

NYC cleared 8,000 homeless encampments in last 2 years with NYPD present nearly every time. Most happened in lower Manhattan -- one site was swept 199 times. Listen WNYC 🎙 to hear from those impacted by these sweeps gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

The Bronx district attorney’s office has assembled a team of prosecutors to review claims alleging that Rikers Island jail staff sexually assaulted detainees, in response to a Gothamist investigation

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My latest for Gothamist

“‘Imagine you don't have nothing and they throw in the little stuff that you get,’ he said. ‘Instead of giving us a step forward, it's going backwards. We already know that the system don't work.’” (via Karen Yi for Gothamist) gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

NEW: city investigators are scrutinizing billions of dollars in spending by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on the migrant crisis, and they’ve hired one of the world’s biggest accounting firms to help ferret out any fraud, waste, or abuse (via Gothamist) gothamist.com/news/nyc-inves…

NEWS: NY's highest court asked to weigh in on NYC’s noncitizen voting law gothamist.com/news/ny-highes… via @gothamist

Want an IDNYC appointment? Set your alarm clock for Friday afternoon.

Read (and listen) how one community group is getting it done, via Karen Yi

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NEW: Did Friday's legal settlement between the city and Legal Aid truly preserve the city's right to shelter? Not everyone thinks so. gothamist.com/news/separate-…

'New York City is the [insert city here] of America.'

Despite federal law that protects the educational rights of homeless youth under 21, advocates who work with teens and young adult immigrants say they've faced waitlists or have been steered to taking the high school equivalency test instead.

Important story from Daniel Parra Mejía

'The agreement also allows the city to deny shelter to adults who have exceeded those time limits and don’t take enough steps to find alternate housing or meet other exceptions.' (via Karen Yi and David Brand for @gothamist) gothamist.com/news/nycs-mayo…

NEW: NYC reached a settlement w Legal Aid & the Coalition for the Homeless over the city's unique right to shelter rules

It allows NYC to impose 30-day limits and deny readmittance to newly arrived migrant adults (60 days for adults < 23)

w Karen Yi
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