Caroline Lewis

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis

The man whom police shot to death after the NYPD said he approached them with a knife in Astoria on Monday had been cared for by his elderly parents until they died a few years ago, according to a longtime neighbor of the family at NYCHA’s Woodside Houses. “ I really feel bad to hear that this happened to him,” said neighbor Rhonda Ferguson. NYPD officials on Wednesday identified the man as Queens resident King Wong, 60.

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis

A mental health clinic on Long Island closed a program for young adults who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses because its federal grant funding is now up in the air, according to Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services CEO Jeffrey Friedman. Mental health and substance use programs across New York state are in limbo as the community-based nonprofits that run them await word on whether Trump administration funding cuts will proceed.

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis

Relatives of the Spanish family that died in a helicopter crash over the Hudson River this week have been “overwhelmed” by condolences, said Joan Camprubí Montal, whose sister Mercè Camprubí Montal died in the crash alongside her husband, Agustín Escobar, and their three children. “That’s probably because the Escobar-Camprubí family was a really loved family,” Camprubí Montal said at a press conference in Manhattan alongside Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday.

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis

New Yorkers have a lot on the line as the Republican-controlled Congress considers cuts to Medicaid that potentially total $880 billion over the course of the next decade, according to health care officials, lawmakers and policy experts. “Even if Republicans pass a fraction of the cuts they’re pushing, it would devastate these communities,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said after visiting nursing homes on Staten Island and Long Island earlier this month.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis

New York state health officials have agreed to extend the timeline to overhaul a $9 billion home care program after insisting for months that the changeover was going smoothly and would be completed on schedule. The agreement was reached Wednesday between the state and attorneys representing health care consumers with chronic illnesses and disabilities who said they were at risk of having their care disrupted if the state’s plan wasn’t delayed.