Cindy Rodriguez

A public hearing on the purchase of city land in Brooklyn by a major real estate developer Wednesday drew dozens of opponents who feared that Wal-Mart will move into the East New York property.

A record number of New Yorkers slept in city homeless shelters last fiscal year, according to a report released Monday by an advocacy group.

The biological mother of the 18-month-old boy allegedly beaten to death by his foster mom's boyfriend attended the funeral for the toddler in downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday.

A toddler who was beaten in a Brooklyn foster home was taken off life support on Friday. The 18-month old died of blunt force trauma — and his death was ruled a homicide, the city's medical examiner said.

A wide-ranging review of Administration for Children's Services last week following the death of a 4-year-old girl revealed problems in more than two dozen cases.

A once-notorious Bronx juvenile detention facility that gained notoriety decades ago for its inhuman conditions has officially been shuttered by the city, officials announced Wednesday.

The tentative state budget deal will reduce the state's Medicaid costs by lowering the amounts that hospitals receive for treating patients under that program.

 

Caseworkers and their supporters rallied outside child welfare field offices in Lower Manhattan on Friday to protest the indictments of two former Administration for Children's Services' employees in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was starved, beaten and drugged.

Two former child welfare workers were charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was starved, beaten and drugged in a case the prosecutor said could reveal "systematic failure" at the agency.

The decision by the city to halt housing vouchers for the formerly homeless has some worried they could end up back in a city shelter.

Developer Forest City Ratner is considering putting up a pre-fabricated, 34-story apartment tower as part of its Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn.

 

A controversial anti-abortion billboard that went up — and was taken down — in Soho last month targeting the black community with the tag line "The Most Dangerous Place for an African-American is in the Womb" sparked debate about the city's abortion rate.

 

The city is halting its only program for moving homeless families and single adults from shelters into permanent apartments and they're blaming the stoppage on state budget cuts.  The Advantage program provides a two-year rental subsidy. Nearly all shelter residents rely on it to find permanent places to live. 

Tenants at a Lower East Side public housing development say the city's housing authority is pressuring them to give up their larger apartments for smaller ones that fit their family size.  Many of the tenants are senior citizens who've lived in their current home decades.

An anti-abortion group's controversial billboard was taken down from its Soho location Thursday night.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who asked all state agencies reduce spending by 10 percent, called on the judiciary to reduce spending despite resistance from the state's chief judge. 

 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget proposal includes cutting close to 17,000 child care subsidies for kids in low-income families in what child advocates call the single biggest cut to child care since the 1970s. 

For tenants living in 10 poorly maintained buildings in the Bronx, a new potential buyer for the buildings, which have been languishing in foreclosure, could renew the hope of those w...

The city wants to give developers more time to take advantage of a tax abatement for new apartment buildings. Housing officials said the move is needed to get stalled construction sites moving but critics call the move a giveaway for real estate developers.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget proposes eliminating funding for a certain type of housing voucher created by the Bloomberg Administration that is used by homeless families and single adults to move out of shelters and into permanent apartments. The vouchers help subsidize their rent for up to two years.