immigrants

What undocumented families need to know as students head back to school.

The new annual report from the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs paints a detailed portrait of immigration in the city.

Chef Farideh Sadeghin sampled hoppers, chicken lamprais, kothu roti, and more in Staten Island’s “Little Sri Lanka” neighborhood.

One detainee was not told he had a brain cyst for two weeks – then his lawyer found it in his paperwork, the complaint says.

The first new arrivals were asylum-seeking men. Hundreds more are expected to follow.

The facility will serve as a waystation for the new arrivals, many of whom will seek longer-term shelter or move on to other cities.

The Adams administration now plans to open an emergency relief center for migrants on Randall's Island, after nixing plans for Orchard Beach.

There has been no welcome wagon at Orchard Beach, where the Adams administration planned to house up to 1,000 asylum seekers temporarily. He changed course late Monday, announcing he would instead open the first such site on Randall's Island.

After a spirited debate, the council approved the measure to allow about 900,000 non-citizen New Yorkers to vote in city elections.

“The fact that this fund has been depleted barely two months after it first opened is a testament to how badly New Yorkers need this lifeline."