A new Brooklyn shelter offers unhoused families with kids a chance at more stability

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A playground that's part of the Westhab Family Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
The Fort Greene Family Center, a Brooklyn homeless shelter, has 105 units for families with kids.

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Forget booking a sightseeing tour. I lived in New York for 20 years, and this $4.50 ferry is the best way to see the city.

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A NYC Ferry traveling on the East River with the Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers in the background.
As a longtime local, I think the NYC commuter ferry is the best way to sightsee in the city.

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Ken Griffin owns NYC's priciest condo. Mamdani wants to hike his property taxes — and others'.

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220 Central Park West

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A thoughtful teacher helped me and my twin after I hesitantly told her we were late to school because we were homeless

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A teacher helps her students working on an assignment.
A teacher helps her students work on an assignment.

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Boutique investment bank Moelis has placed a senior banker on leave after a video circulated online appearing to show him punching a woman

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A view of the skyline of Lower Manhattan and the buildings of the Financial District including the Trump Building as seen from the Hudson River on June 5, 2005 in New York, New York.
A senior Moelis employee has been placed on leave, the bank confirmed on Monday.

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'Chopped'-winning celeb chef who didn't pay rent for over 4 years gets evicted

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Madison Cowan attends the 2022 Alzheimer's Association Imagine Benefit in 2022.

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New York tech workers make $135,000 on average, but can't afford the vast majority of apartments on the market

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An aerial view of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
New York City's home vacancy rate is just 1.4%, its lowest in over 50 years.

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I moved to Iceland from Brooklyn 7 years ago. I feel so much safer walking round downtown at night and I'm away from the rat race.

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A photo of Jewells Chambers sitting in a bookshop in Reykjavik, Iceland in November 2023

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A woman is renovating a rundown Brooklyn brownstone that's been in her family for nearly 100 years

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Sarah Coleman and the brownstone she's renovating with her family.
Sarah Coleman and the brownstone she's renovating with her family.

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Jaw-dropping photos show the aftermath of when 2 planes collided in the air over New York City 63 years ago

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onlookers at the site of the 1960 plane crash in brooklyn and the wreckage
In 1960, two airplanes crashed into each other above New York City. There were no survivors.

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