Cindy Rodriguez

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REPORTER: Youth Communication is launching a site that will list resources for finding things like housing and college scholarships.

Director Keith Hefner says being in foster care is often traumatic and many teens require mental health services.

HEFNER: There's a list of probably 200 clinics that you ...

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Where would New Yorkers live if a natural disaster destroyed their homes. The city says more than a hundred design teams responded to the question and 10 were selected winners of a contest held by the Office of Emergency Management.

REPORTER: Submissions were received from 30 ...

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REPORTER: At a hearing yesterday, DOB head Patricia Lancaster asked members of the city council to pass legislation that would require all general contractors to register with the agency before receiving a building permit.

The city says construction accidents at high rise buildings more than doubled ...

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The Brooklyn murder trial of Cesar Rodriguez continues today. The 29-year-old is accused of beating his 7-year old step daughter Nixmary Brown to death. The defense claims the police conducted a biased investigation.

Defense Attorney Jeff Schwartz spent most of the morning cross examining a witness ...

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Hoping to tone down the vitriol against illegal immigrants, advocacy groups are starting a public information campaign aimed at people who aren't immigrants. The groups are scheduling workshops, and outreach efforts at churches and synagogues, to educate people about immigrants' lives and economic contributions.

REPORTER: Javier ...

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The murder trial of the man accused of brutally beating his 7-year old step-daughter, Nixzmary Brown, is in its second week. Two years ago, the child’s death shook the city and the child welfare system. Officials announced a series of reforms including the hiring of ...

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Defense Attorney Jeffrey Schwartz continues to try to convince jurors that 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was killed by her mother and not his client Cesar Rodriguez.

REPORTER: The attorney says Nixzaliz Santiago blamed her daughter for a recent miscarriage and beat her. He accused police of focusing ...

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Prosecutors say Cesar Rodriguez subjected Brown to systematic torture and abuse. His defense attorney says the child's mother is to blame.

WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

The trial is expected to layout in graphic detail how 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was often bound to a chair and confined to ...

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MySpace, a popular social networking site for teenagers, and young adults has agreed to take measures aimed at weeding out sexual predators.

REPORTER: Several attorney's general were in New York announcing MySpace's cooperation with them. The measures include making it more difficult to access the profiles ...

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Following her death, reports of abuse and neglect skyrocketed. The result - an increasingly overburdened family court system. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

According to a report by the Center for New York City Affairs, court-ordered supervision cases have nearly doubled since 2005.

At a City Council hearing, ...

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WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

The fight over whether Fifth Avenue Presbyterian should allow the homeless to sleep on its steps started under the Guiliani administration and has persisted ever since.

Only now, instead of court battles, the city wants to convince church leaders by showing them the ...

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Fresh Direct, the online company that delivers groceries to New Yorkers, is facing accusations that it purposely caused an immigration audit as a way to bust a union. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: More than 900 Fresh Direct warehouse workers are expected to vote this weekend ...

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More than 1,000 people live in the Castleton Park Apartments on Staten Island near the ferry landing.

For the last several months, they've been urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to prevent their building owner from leaving the affordable housing program called Mitchell Lama.

Yesterday, ...

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The city's new experimental program aimed at reducing poverty has paid more than $700,000 to low-income families for good behavior. The money comes from private donors, not taxpayers. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

More than 1400 families received the money, making the average pay out just over ...

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It's estimated that nearly 4,000 teenagers and young adults are considered homeless in New York City. That's according to a survey conducted by organizations that provide youth services. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

The city council commissioned the survey, conducted last summer, to determine the scope of ...

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A new survey of city welfare offices shows nearly 75 percent are not providing proper translation services for those who don't speak English. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: According to advocates a local law requires the city to translate applications into 6 different languages and have ...

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Governor Spitzer is painting a bleak picture of the foreclosure crisis in New York over the next 2 years. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

While addressing a group of affordable housing builders, Spitzer said the reforms put forward by the Bush administration are too narrow and won't ...

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Medical and dental checkups, haircuts and massages were all available under 1 roof yesterday for homeless New Yorkers. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

REPORTER: The city says the main purpose of the 2-day event was to get people to fill out housing applications. The Department of Homeless ...

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A dispute over how the city determines who is homeless will be fought out in court. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.

Judge Helen Freedman had appointed a panel of experts to look into the matter after homeless advocates filed a motion, claiming too many families are mistakenly ...

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More foreclosures are expected to hit city neighborhoods, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports:

REPORTER: The report shows that as of August there were more than 51,000 sub-prime loans in New York City. Close to ...