What Happens When Police Show Up for Mental Health Calls?
Peggy Herrera puts herself between NYPD officers and the door of her home in Jamaica, Queens in Aug. 2019.Screengrab/NYPD Body...
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Adams Vows Action to Hospitalize People With Serious Untreated Mental Illness
A man laid down in the middle of a street outside Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, June 14, 2021.Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY...
Big Chain Drugstores Close Branches Across the East Bronx
A Walgreens on Morrison Avenue in Soundview shut down in November. It’s one of two large chain pharmacies in the...
Proposed Salary Boosts Would Do Little to Help Struggling EMTs, Labor Leaders Say
EMTs respond to a person in distress on 125th Street in Harlem, July 20, 2021.Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY One group of...
Saving Lives or Ruining the Neighborhood? East Harlem Locals at Odds as America’s First Safe Injection Site Turns One
A used syringe sat on an East 124th Street sidewalk near the Lexington Avenue subway station, Dec. 7, 2022.Ben Fractenberg/THE...
After Year of Hardships, Some Fired Unvaccinated City Workers Win Jobs Back
Frank Schimenti visits the grave of his son, Giovanni, at Moravian Cemetery.Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY To support his family after...
New York City Has 25 Days to Settle Retirees’ Switch to Privatized Insurance, Arbitrator Rules
Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY This article was published in partnership with New York Focus.An arbitrator’s ruling Thursday cleared the way for...
NYCHA Under Oath: Water Scandal Grows as Authority Admits Suspect Firm Had Much Larger Portfolio
Swearing in at a City Hall hearing are NYCHA officials including COO Eva Trimble, second from right, Sept. 20, 2022.Ben...
Nurses Give Poor Prognosis to Adams Psych Plan, Citing Staff Shortages
“Safe Staffing Saves Lives” reads one sign at a nurses’ rally about working conditions, Nov. 30, 2022.Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY At...
Unlicensed Pot Shops Still Selling Weed Following NYPD Shutdown Actions
An unlicensed East Village smoke shop on Avenue A advertised selling marijuana, Feb. 28, 2023.Stephon Johnson/THE CITY Mayor Eric Adams...
