Amy Eddings

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New York City has been putting homeless people in private hotels for two decades, and in the last few years city payments to hotels has skyrocketed. A WNYC investigation found that this business goes to just a few landlords and that the city knows almost ...

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On Nancy Wackstein’s office wall, there’s a framed copy of an old report.

Wackstein: We had done this whole report, when Mayor Dinkins was borough president of Manhattan and I had worked for him then. We had done a whole report, a shelter ...

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WNYC's seven month examination of the city's emergency homeless housing program continues. As WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reported yesterday, more than 180 million dollars has been spent in the last fiscal year alone, for emergency shelter in often poor quality apartments and hotels where the homeless ...

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For several weeks, there was a banner that hung outside the new, six-story red brick building at 65 Clermont Avenue, in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. The banner trumpeted the arrival of luxury condominiums to passing drivers along the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. So Peter ...

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Twenty years ago, New York City began moving homeless people into hotel rooms rented by the night. That business has continued to grow, and this year the city is on track to spend more than one-hundred eighty (M) million dollars placing homeless people in hotels ...

New York City is on track to spend $180 million this year to put homeless people in hotels and temporary apartments. And all of that money changes hands OUTSIDE of the city's usual contracting process. Competition, public scrutiny, and many of the city's homeless people have suffered as ...

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Walking down the long brown hallway in the Marion Hotel on the Upper West Side, Jacqueline Davis fingers a keychain around her neck.

Bernstein: You’ve got a lot of keys on that keychain. What are they to?
Davis: Hotels I’ve ...

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It's a persistant belief among many New Yorkers that food disposers, that staple of suburban kitchens, are banned in the city. They're not. In fact, the right to grind eggshells and pizza crusts, and wash them down the drain, came in 1997 when the food ...

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As WNYC's Amy Eddings reported yesterday, four law enforcement agencies are investigating whether a non-profit AIDS housing group violated criminal and civil laws by improperly diverting its funds for the profit and entertainment of it's founders. Now WNYC's Andrea Bernstein ...

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A WNYC investigation has found that a non-profit organization, set up to help homeless people with AIDS, appears to have improperly diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of public funds to set up for-profit companies for its top officials. In ...

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Bar and restaurant patrons have the option of stepping outside for a smoke, once the city's tough new smoking ban goes into effect Sunday. But inmates in the city's jails won't have this kind of outlet for their habit. And that has some worried that ...

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A joint mayoral and council task force is expected to issue a report today on how the city can improve recycling. The task force was formed last year, when the city suspended glass and plastic recycling, in an attempt to save money. Plastic recycling is ...

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A WNYC investigation has discovered that more than 70 million dollars paid out by the city has been spent placing homeless families in buildings that often have long histories of violating housing codes. The money has gone to just twelve operators - and was never ...

A WNYC investigation has discovered that more than 70 million dollars paid out by the city has been spent placing homeless families in buildings that often have long histories of violating housing codes. The money has gone to just twelve operators – and was never reported to the City Comptroller’s ...

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A state supreme court justice has temporarily ordered a Brooklyn landlord to stop eviction proceedings against his tenants. The residents of the low-income housing complex say their landlord was unfairly evicting them in order to make more money by offering the apartments to the city ...

New York, NY —

A state supreme court justice has temporarily ordered a Brooklyn landlord to stop eviction proceedings against his tenants. The residents of the low-income housing complex say their landlord was unfairly evicting them in order to make more money by offering the apartments to the city ...

New York, NY —

A state supreme court justice has temporarily ordered a Brooklyn landlord to stop eviction proceedings against his tenants. The residents of the low-income housing complex say their landlord was unfairly evicting them in order to make more money by offering the apartments to the city ...

New York, NY —

The past year has been a stormy and scandalous one for Roman Catholics. It began with a story in the Boston Globe last January about former priest John Geoghan, accused of molesting 130 boys in six different parishes over thirty years. And the year ended ...

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg's three billion dollar plan to create and preserve
65-thousand units of affordable housing in the next five years is being
hailed as the city's biggest housing initiative since the mid-1980's.
Housing advocates, who are often at odds with the city, called the plan
"visionary." WNYC's Amy ...

New York, NY —

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's three billion dollar plan to create and preserve
65-thousand units of affordable housing in the next five years is being
hailed as the city's biggest housing initiative since the mid-1980's.
Housing advocates, who are often at odds with the city, called the plan
"visionary." WNYC's Amy ...