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Cuomo Announces $20 Billion Affordable Housing Plan At State Of The State Speech

Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/] / Flickr) Governor Andrew Cuomo rolled out a five-year, $20 billion housing plan during his State of the State speech [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-outlines-2016-agenda-signature-proposals-ensuring-new-york-and-will-continue-be] on Wednesday that promised

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Formerly Homeless, Artist Jo Ann O’Rear Starts Over With Local Exhibit

Works by Jo Ann O’Rear. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)“I have to use them all the time. My hands and arms are on fire.” Artist Jo Ann O’Rear [http://www.joannorear.com/] is describing how the artistic process fuels her. “I’ve been like that

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CAMBA Launches “You Can Van” To Reach Out To Areas Where Residents Risk Losing Homes

Melissa Mowery, Norberto Toro and Grace Ruiz providing information to residents in a high-risk community. (Photo via CAMBA)Church Avenue-based non-profit CAMBA [http://www.camba.org/] recently launched its “You Can Van” in partnership with the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dhs/index.page], which

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Homeless Man Arrested In D Train Flashing Incident

Source: DCPIA homeless man has been arrested in the flashing incident [/police-seek-d-train-subway-flasher/#.VdciX7xViko] that occurred on the subway over the weekend. Confessor Pagan has been arrested and changed with public lewdness, police said. As we previously reported [/police-seek-d-train-subway-flasher/#.VdciX7xViko], cops say the suspect seen exposing himself and “performing a lewd

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Homeless Man Found Dead In Box Trailer

Source: Google MapsA 45-year-old homeless man was found dead in a box trailer in Coney Island over the weekend, according to officials. The still-unidentified man, called only Luis, was discovered unresponsive at 3:04am in the parked truck in front of Nick’s Auto Glass shop, located at 1523 Neptune

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Sampson Challenger Who Grew Up Homeless Says Mayor’s Homeless Initiative Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Sean Henry (Source: electseanhenry.com)Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new initiative earlier this month to dramatically shrink the number of families living in the city’s homeless shelters, but a challenger to embattled State Senator John Sampson, Sean Henry [/another-challenger-steps-in-to-take-state-senator-john-sampsons-seat/], who spent his early years homeless, said the

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Is There An Underground Fight Club Run By “The Russians” In Coney Island?

Source: Humans of New York via FacebookThe Facebook account [https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork] associated with the incredibly popular Humans of New York photoblog [http://www.humansofnewyork.com/] ran the above photo on Tuesday, with the subject quoted as saying he participates in an “underground fighting league in Coney Island”

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Help NYC’s Homeless January 27 By Volunteering With The HOPE Survey

Every year, the Department of Homeless Services [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dhs/html/home/home.shtml] conducts the Homeless Population Outreach Estimate [https://a071-hope.nyc.gov/hope/welcome.aspx], or HOPE. Over the course of just one night, HOPE sends out 3,000 volunteers to gather critical information about

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Monday: Volunteers Needed To Survey Homelessness

The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is conducting the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) on January 28, when they will survey to find a point-in-time estimate of the number of unsheltered homeless individuals in New York City. Here’s their call for volunteers: > With one week left until the

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Sheepshead Station Escapes Irene's Cleaning Powers

There’s no doubt that Hurricane Irene caused a lot of mess in a lot of places. But walking down normally hazmat-worthy commercial corridors like Sheepshead Bay Road, Avenue U and Coney Island Avenue, one can also get a sense of appreciation for the storm’s cleaning powers. A lot

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Video: Fidler Rails Against Cuts To Homeless Services

by Councilman Lew Fidler It is a statistical fact that tonight 3,800 children WITHOUT their families will be homeless on the streets of NYC tonight. Over the past 9 years that I have chaired the Council’s Youth Services Committee, I have conducted over 18 hearings on the issues

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Shopping Cart Series: Smile & Say “Stuff”

When this Sheepshead Bites journalist came up to me and asked me to pose for a picture, I was very glad to do so. Having snapped “me” in front of the Sheepshead Bay Gourmet Market, I asked for another showing the street in the background. That’s when my owner