
Karen Yi
@karen_yi
covering poverty @wnyc & @gothamist. adjunct @columbia. past life @StarLedger @asburyparkpress @sunsentinel. miami forever 🌴
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16-04-2009 15:47:44
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A trip to Puerto Rico, comedy club tickets, memoir promotion via Equinox: A glimpse into the Adams 2021 fundraising tactics, some of which are under scrutiny. New from Brigid Bergin gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…




.Urban Pathways which houses formerly homeless NYers is trying to cut down on avoidable ER visits which cost 8x as much as a doctor's visit -- by hiring nurses. ER visits are down 50%. gothamist.com/news/er-visits…



Data after data shows how finding an apartment NYC is only getting harder. "Even people who never used to think about housing that much because it wasn’t so bad for them are now screaming from the rooftops,” said Alicia Glen. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…





NYC's social services agency will soon begin slashing safety net benefits to the lowest-income residents if they fail to meet work requirements, according to an email obtained by Gothamist. Latest by David Brand gothamist.com/news/nyc-will-…

Just over a year after George Joseph & I published the 1st story in a series on how predatory investors target heirs of property in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods, the state made changes to the law to better protect those homeowners. It's now in effect! thecity.nyc/2024/07/23/hei…

Bringing a little joy to the WNYC 🎙 airwaves today: scenes from a Coalition for the Homeless summer camp for kids. "Camp made me feel centered and like, joyful," one camper said. "I'm a goofy girl, everybody likes me. And I'm a Taurus," another said. gothamist.com/news/this-summ… Coalition for the Homeless

We've got a very cool thing up on Gothamist today - a super-granular map of gun violence in NYC, down to the block level, contextualized by brittany.kriegstein's tenacious reporting and her painstaking accounting of every New Yorker killed by bullets in 2024. gothamist.com/news/new-york-…

Public perception & political rhetoric often suggest that crime and gun violence are rampant across NYC but data shows otherwise: Just ~4%~ of the city's 120,000 blocks account for nearly all shootings. Stellar work by brittany.kriegstein & Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky gothamist.com/news/hot-spots…

8 months ago Samantha Max & I started reading 700+ lawsuits alleging sexual assault by NYC jail staff. One name kept appearing: CO Champagne. But it wasn’t in city records. Our investigation into ‘Champagne’ & what his accusers say officials allowed: tinyurl.com/2cjys2p4
