New Yorkers in several neighborhoods where Mayor Eric Adams won handily on a platform of reducing crime through increased policing now say they’re ready to embrace policies meant to minimize NYPD ...

Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams have been busy serving up the latest in their piecemeal plans to address street-bound homeless New Yorkers with severe mental illness. Their single focus on conflating ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that his department will devote $100 million ...

Just over a week into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tenure, city lawmakers are poised to take the first steps in implementing his dramatic plan to revamp how the city responds to mental health emergencies.

The city’s real-estate market will be crippled by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to stop clearing homeless encampments, industry workers warned Friday. Tent cities crowding city sidewalks would ...

Kevin Atlanta was homeless until this summer. NY1 met him at a shelter in Queens — a facility run by the nonprofit group Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) similar to where he had stayed — a place that ...

The Trump administration is pushing a new approach to America’s homeless crisis, favoring shelters and rehabilitation centers over long-term housing for people who use drugs and alcohol. By Sarah ...

The least revolutionary plans that New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani advanced on the campaign trail dealt with mental illness. The most likely outcome of these plans is that taxpayers pay more ...