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Black investigator was called a 'bitch' while working at NYS finance department: suit
A veteran black female fraud investigator is suing the state Department of Financial Services alleging she was called a "bitch" for doing her job.
Homeless swastika 'artist' further proof Bill de Blasio, Steve Banks did New Yorkers dirty
In yet another example of how the likely-mentally-ill homeless degrade everything, James Ryan, 39, stands charged with hate crimes for a swastika-scrawling spree in Lower Manhattan. Starting Dec. 3, the...
Mayor de Blasio refuses to take responsibility for homeless crisis
As Mayor de Blasio’s tenure at Gracie Mansion winds down, homelessness — a key campaign issue against which he swore to fight a “blood and guts” war — remains as...
De Blasio won't help the violent mentally ill — the next NYC mayor must
Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray just rolled out the third — yes, third! — iteration of the failed city mental-health program she's run, ThriveNYC. To say...
Curtis Sliwa says homeless hotel shelters would continue under Adams
Republican Mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa held a campaign rally to allege the de Blasio administration's "reign of non-transparency” on the homeless crisis would continue under Eric Adams and the NY's...
Homeless horrors on the watch of 'advocate' Steven Banks
City homeless czar Steven Banks has a lot to answer for in the wake of city Comptroller Scott Stringer's latest damning report on shelter conditions. It turns out Banks' system...
Nonprofit profiteering is one reason NYC's homeless crisis never ends
New York City spends billions in the name of fighting homelessness — all too often dropping the cash on shady nonprofits that provide lousy, sometimes dangerous, services. Last month, the...
De Blasio's failed efforts to combat homelessness exposed
A one-two punch just exposed the built-in futility of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to handle homeless in the subways — indeed, the key flaw in all his homeless policies....
How many more failures before Steve Banks gets fired?
What does it take to get a “homelessness czar” fired? Steven Banks is now putting nearly one in six city homeless up in hotels, at an average of $222 a...
Another homeless horror: Time to fire Banks
Score another one for the city Department of Investigation, which just exposed more bungling by the Department of Homeless Services. What will it take for Mayor Bill de Blasio to...
De Blasio's 'Hail Mary' plan for the homeless crisis
Mayor de Blasio, two months into his reelection year, on Tuesday proposed a solution to New York City’s homelessness crisis: A 30 percent hike in the municipal shelter inventory. In...
HRA chief should read 'The Art of the Deal'
We thought our opinion of city Human Resources Administration chief Steven Banks couldn’t sink any lower — until we read Steve Cuozzo’s Realty Check column in Tuesday’s Post, and learned...
Yes, de Blasio's to blame for the surging shelter population
A year after Mayor Bill de Blasio finally admitted the city faced a rising homeless crisis, the problem’s gotten worse — and he deserves much of the blame. As The...
De Blasio doubles down on his failed approach to homelessness
Either Mayor Bill de Blasio believes in rewarding failure — or he thinks having more homelessness and folks on welfare represents success. How else to explain his decision Monday to...
The city's homeless crisis can't be fixed with 'streamlining'
Gov. Cuomo was right: Team de Blasio can’t manage the homeless crisis — and now even Mayor de Blasio admits it. On Tuesday, he announced the exit of his homeless-services...
Mayor de Blasio's still in denial on the city's homeless mess
Pathetic. Mayor de Blasio declared Friday that the real mistake was that City Hall “did not explain to people well enough what we were doing to address homelessness.” This, the...
Say goodbye to welfare reform, New York
It’s official: Mayor de Blasio has declared war on welfare reform. Last week, de Blasio announced that Legal Aid Society chief Steve Banks will be the city’s next welfare commissioner....
De Blasio picks ex-thorn to run HRA
If you can’t beat ’em, hire ’em. A longtime Legal Aid Society lawyer who filed a slew of lawsuits against the city on behalf of needy New Yorkers has been...