If you’re one of the nearly 3 million New Yorkers currently enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, you are likely to see delays in your food benefits next month. nysfocus.com/2025/10/30/s...

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"Blue states like New York launched programs that aimed — however imperfectly — to help new arrivals find housing and jobs. Now, they appear powerless to protect the beneficiaries of those programs." nysfocus.com/2025/09/29/m...

"County jails are some of the agency’s only options in New York. Private detention centers, which ICE relies on elsewhere in the country, are illegal in the state" nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/i...

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"County jails are some of the agency’s only options in New York. Private detention centers, which ICE relies on elsewhere in the country, are illegal in the state" nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/i...

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"The administration’s policies have outsized effects on New York, which is home to more than a fifth of all SIJ petitioners — more than any other state." nysfocus.com/2025/09/04/t...

The NYPD is surveilling cameras in NYCHA developments, and its unclear if NYCHA even knew... nysfocus.com/2025/08/12/u...

" In the past few years, hotels have quietly become the state’s predominant response to homelessness outside New York City." nysfocus.com/2025/06/24/n...

"The agency has also failed to respond to a public records request filed by New York Focus in February seeking its communications with California ... California’s Department of Social Services, on the other hand, had no trouble providing Focus with its emails" nysfocus.com/2025/06/17/n...

Excited delirium is said to turn people into erratic aggressors and has been discredited by much of the medical establishment. Documents show that state and local agencies across New York train law enforcement officers on the disavowed syndrome.

New York Focus has been awarded the Walter T. Brown Award for excellence in coverage of New York state government for the second year in a row 🤩 nysfocus.com/2025/06/10/n...