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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- There are fewer homeless New Yorkers. That's according to a report Thursday, by the Department of Homeless Services. It released results of a federally mandated 'HOPE' street homeless survey conducted in January. RELATED: San Francisco area homeless count increases by double...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The Homeless situation in New York continues to haunt Mayor Bill de Blasio. A study released on Tuesday, projects there will be more New Yorkers without permanent homes three years from now than the mayor predicted. RELATED: Man knifed outside of Times Square homeless...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 72-year-old man was kicked out of his apartment by the New York City Housing Authority while recovering from surgery. Bienvenido Martinez was evicted from his Bronx apartment of 14 years for being behind $816 in rent. According to The Bronx Borough President, Ruben Diaz Jr...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Activists from House Our Future NY interrupted Friday's City Hall Housing and Budget hearing to demand the construction of more housing for the homeless. "House the homeless" was continuously yelled by activists during the hearing. Advocates believe that the mayor’s Housing...

early 400 people showed up at a public hearing to protest a proposed new homeless shelter on Staten Island.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is promising action when it comes to getting homeless people out of the subway and into shelters.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Police have charged three homeless men and are searching for three more in the wild subway melee with an officer that has been viewed by millions. Police say they’ve arrested Eliseo Alvarez, 36, Liambardo Alvarado, 31, and Juan Nunez, 27, after Sunday’s intense subway...

The union for NYPD officers is outraged that no criminal charges are being filed against five homeless men seen on video coming at a police officer who told them to leave a Chinatown subway station.

GoFundMe says it has refunded everyone who contributed to a campaign involving a homeless veteran from Philadelphia who prosecutors allege schemed with a New Jersey couple to scam donors out of more than $400,000.

Thirty-three years ago on Christmas Eve, a homeless woman known as “Mama Doe” was kicked out of Grand Central Station into the freezing cold.