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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.
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What New Yorkers Need to Know about November's SNAP Freeze
The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York's food stamps program into chaos.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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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."
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New York Spent Millions to Resettle Them. Trump Is Deporting Them.
The Migrant Relocation Assistance Program helped families leave crowded shelters and put down roots. Trump’s immigration crackdown is upending that.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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"
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ICE Detentions in New York County Jails Have Exploded
So far this year, the state's county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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🎉 Have a round of drinks on New York Focus! Join us for a night of raffles and mingling for our 5th birthday party on Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn. Tickets are $5 in advance.

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It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five
Come celebrate with us!
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September 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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...
ICE Detentions in New York County Jails Have Exploded
So far this year, the state's county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Come to our birthday!!!

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September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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."
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Young New York Immigrants at Risk After Trump Ends Protections
New Yorkers are suing to reverse a Trump administration policy change that has upended the futures of tens of thousands of young immigrants.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The NYPD is surveilling cameras in NYCHA developments, and its unclear if NYCHA even knew...
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Five Unanswered Questions About Eric Adams’s Expanded Surveillance at…
Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote…
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August 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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" In the past few years, hotels have quietly become the state’s predominant response to homelessness outside New York City."
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How Hotels Became New York’s Go-To Fix for Homelessness
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child…
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June 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"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"
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Could A Lawsuit Finally Spur New York into Action on Food Stamp Theft?
The state has left defrauded food stamp recipients to fend for themselves. Internal agency emails point to a long-simmering effort riddled with delays.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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 Police Agencies Train Officers on a Discredited Medical…
Documents show that six county sheriffs’ offices and two state agencies have recently included excited delirium in their training.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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 🤩
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New York Focus Honored for Coverage of Prison System
The Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association recognized Chris Gelardi with its award for the year’s best state government reporting — the second year…
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June 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM