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City and state officials are working to blunt the impact at courts across the five boroughs.
The City Council has filed to intervene in the Legal Aid Society's suit that aims to force the Adams administration to expand the city's housing voucher program.
Speaker Adrienne Adams and the Legal Aid Society announced separate plans to sue the mayor and social services agency if they block housing aid to more low-income New Yorkers.
The first dozen migrant families would have originally had to leave their current shelters after Christmas.
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless called on the city to rectify the situation outside a reticketing center in the East Village.
Documents filed last Friday give a preview into what federal receivership could look like.
The organization is responding to a recent court monitor report detailing vermin infestations, fire hazards and a poorly maintained ventilation system, among other concerns.
Attorneys for the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, which are involved in the case, hailed the outcome.
Teenagers are stopped by the NYPD at a higher rate than any other age group.
The NYPD will abandon a practice in which officers detain people for long periods of time to check if they were named in any open warrants or investigations, even if they hadn't found any evidence of a crime during a search.