Topic: Department Of Homeless Services

City bites bedbugs back

A Bronx mother is claiming her family got a creepy crawly surprise last week at a borough homeless shelter - bedbugs.. . But the Department of...

Parents angry shelter opening near school

Constance King looked up at the red brick former warehouse that will soon open as a shelter for homeless men, right across the street from a junior...
Sporadic sounds of fireworks could be heard around the Bronx last Thursday night as people started celebrating the Fourth of July weekend. Gunfire...

Foes of homeless shelter unite

South Ozone Park residents are mobilizing against a men's homeless shelter that also houses a handful of registered sex offenders - and which...
A group of formerly homeless tenants in a Corona apartment building is going to court to fight an eviction that could leave the tenants without a...

Don't send us back to shelter!

Last August, after more than a year of struggle, Fantausha Nelson of Morris Heights climbed out of homelessness. Her daughters got their own...