covering poverty @wnyc & @gothamist. adjunct @columbia. past life @StarLedger @asburyparkpress @sunsentinel. miami forever 🌴
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Karen Yi retweeted
Breaking up with NYC: parents with young kids are fleeing the city due to rising childcare and housing costs.
@karen_yi spoke to several families who’ve left or are contemplating it.
gothamist.com/news/families-…
Karen Yi retweeted
8 months ago @samanthaellimax & I started reading 700+ lawsuits alleging sexual assault by NYC jail staff. One name kept appearing: CO Champagne. But it wasn’t in city records. Our investigation into ‘Champagne’ & what his accusers say officials allowed: tinyurl.com/2cjys2p4
Public perception & political rhetoric often suggest that crime and gun violence are rampant across NYC but data shows otherwise: Just ~4%~ of the city's 120,000 blocks account for nearly all shootings. Stellar work by @BKriegstein & @jeffwilen gothamist.com/news/hot-spots…
Karen Yi retweeted
Just over a year after @georgejoseph94 & I published the 1st story in a series on how predatory investors target heirs of property in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods, the state made changes to the law to better protect those homeowners.
It's now in effect!
thecity.nyc/2024/07/23/heirs…
Bringing a little joy to the @WNYC airwaves today: scenes from a @NYHomeless summer camp for kids.
"Camp made me feel centered and like, joyful," one camper said.
"I'm a goofy girl, everybody likes me. And I'm a Taurus," another said.
gothamist.com/news/this-summ… @NYHomeless
Karen Yi retweeted
"I see the people in shelters and I feel bad that they're there. And it's my turn now to be in a shelter"
4 tenants on the brink of eviction want to join a lawsuit against the Adams admin for blocking laws expanding access to housing vouchers
w/@karen_yi
gothamist.com/news/theyre-ab…
NYC's social services agency will soon begin slashing safety net benefits to the lowest-income residents if they fail to meet work requirements, according to an email obtained by Gothamist. Latest by @DavidFBrand
gothamist.com/news/nyc-will-…
Karen Yi retweeted
NEW: Those massive, metallic Link5G towers aren’t actually providing 5G coverage, more than 2 years after the first of thousands was installed in the Bronx
w/@jeffwilen for @Gothamist-@WNYC
gothamist.com/news/nycs-mass…
Karen Yi retweeted
Homeless New Yorkers are spending fewer days in city-run shelters on average than in the last decade @karen_yi reports.
What’s behind the shorter stays? Migrants.
gothamist.com/news/average-s…
Karen Yi retweeted
Tonight you may wonder why the #empirestatebldg is red. Happy 100th birthday, WNYC! So proud to have spent my last 13 years as part of the venerable New York and New Jersey institution.
Karen Yi retweeted
Data after data shows how finding an apartment NYC is only getting harder.
"Even people who never used to think about housing that much because it wasn’t so bad for them are now screaming from the rooftops,” said @AliciaGlen.
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
Karen Yi retweeted
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside, even if shelter space is lacking. apnews.com/article/supreme-c…
.@UrbanPathwaysNY which houses formerly homeless NYers is trying to cut down on avoidable ER visits which cost 8x as much as a doctor's visit -- by hiring nurses. ER visits are down 50%. gothamist.com/news/er-visits…
Karen Yi retweeted
A quick update on the Norcross indictment in the feed! We’ll have a real episode to drop soon…hopefully. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Karen Yi retweeted
Rents on New York City’s roughly one million stabilized apartments are going up starting this fall.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-board…
Karen Yi retweeted
The preeminent New Jersey political boss, George Norcross, has been indicted for running a criminal enterprise that used extortion to promote his vast business & political empire--AND HE IS SITTING IN FRONT ROW OF PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING HIS INDICMENT youtube.com/watch?v=RdNyZrB3…
Karen Yi retweeted
A trip to Puerto Rico, comedy club tickets, memoir promotion via Equinox: A glimpse into the Adams 2021 fundraising tactics, some of which are under scrutiny.
New from @brigidbergin
gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…
Karen Yi retweeted
NYC day cares struggle to retain staff, paid less than DOE-employed child care workers
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Karen Yi retweeted
Had so much fun meeting some of the hardest-working women in NYC.
The surge of recently-arrived migrant women (aka in this country for <1 year) joining the construction trades “is visible, it is incredible and it is real… and they’re up for anything.”
thecity.nyc/2024/06/05/const…
