Adams wants to bring back dorm-style apartments

Also, mental health services will soon be offered at NYC family shelters. [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Mayor Adams pitches dorm-style apartments, hallway bathrooms in NYC housing plan]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by Emily Nadal]( Weather: ☔ The bad news is that we have another chilly, rainy day ahead of us. The good news is that our rainy day streak is supposed to end tomorrow. If all of this rain has kept you inside, you’re missing out. [Here’s a list of the best rainy day activities in the city.]( It’s Tuesday morning in New York City [where Mayor Eric Adams plans to bring back single-room occupancy housing.]( Last week, Adams unveiled an ambitious housing plan that included a proposal for rules that allow for new SRO housing, a type of dorm-style apartment complex where tenants have their own private studios but typically share kitchens and bathrooms. Some homeless rights advocates are on board with the idea, and say the model could provide an avenue out of shelters. But for other tenant organizers, SRO housing isn't progress, but a step back. Here’s what else is happening: - Thirty of the largest family shelters in the city will begin [providing mental health services on-site to occupants this month](. The shelters will have to identify and hire mental health professionals by July, with the remaining shelters following suit by 2025. - City Hall [honored the lifeguards and other first responders who saved 65-year-old Tatyana Koltunyuk’s life]( after she was bitten by a shark off of Rockaway Beach in August. - On a [special NYC NOW episode]( we feature the story of Matthew Green, a nine-year-old public school student whose dyslexia diagnosis sent him and his family into a complex world of neuropsychiatrists, lawyers and private schools. - Police [found a 37-year-old woman, 14-year-old girl and a dog dead]( inside a Brooklyn apartment on Monday during a wellness check. - After 21 weeks of striking, the Writer’s Guild of America [reached a tentative agreement with the trade group that represents the big Hollywood studios and streamers]( and New Yorkers who have been out of work for those five months finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. - A group of 20-somethings [convinced dozens of people to dine at their one-night-only steakhouse]( restaurant as part of an elaborate inside joke. The prix-fixe menu ($114) represented the life cycle of a cow, and beverage options were limited to three different red wines and milk. - Ten NYPD members [accounted for more than $68 million in misconduct payouts]( between 2013 and 2023, according to a new report by the Legal Aid Society, and all of them are still on public payroll. - There really isn’t an easy or convenient way to commute in and out of City Island in the Bronx. That’s why residents are [calling for NYC Ferry to expand service with a stop on the island.]( - [Mayor Eric Adams had an interesting weekend](. He joined NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban and NYPD Chief of the Department Jeffrey Maddrey in becoming Freemasons, but details of the event were scarce, even though it was hosted at Gracie Mansion. - The New York Civil Liberties Union [filed a Freedom of Information Law request last week to the NYC Department of Education]( for all sex-ed curriculum materials currently taught in public schools. The request comes after students claimed they weren’t receiving sex education at their schools. - A 38-year-old man was [arrested in connection with the Bronx day care]( where a [1-year-old died]( three other young children were hospitalized from opioid exposure earlier this month. Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, the third suspect in the case, was arraigned in federal court yesterday on charges accusing him of conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death. - Several permit applications that would allow street closures for events were [turned down by the NYPD’s 70th Precinct in Brooklyn this summer](. Officers from the precinct told Hell Gate it’s because the neighborhood is too “violent,” but one of the permit applications was simply for a community clean-up. - Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday she will be assigning an additional 150 National Guard members in New York to [help migrants apply for work authorization]( following the Biden administration’s announcement of extended temporary legal protections for Venezuelans. - The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [issued a commissioner's advisory]( about the high number of overdose deaths in the city, which rose 12% in just a single year. - What even is LinkedIn anymore? People have started [oversharing about their personal lives in Facebook-style posts]( on the professional work website, and it’s gotten real strange. “Tenants in New York City are desperate for anything remotely affordable, but will this really just lead to a reduction in quality of life for poor people?" - Larry wood, tenant organizer and director of housing and advocacy at goddard riverside, [discussing the implications of Single-ROom occupancy complexes.]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Defiant, indicted Bob Menendez: 'I’ll be exonerated and still the senior senator of New Jersey']( Indicted New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez denied allegations of bribery Monday, while never explicitly addressing his 2024 reelection plans. [The NYPD is deploying a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station]( A 420-pound, 5-foot-2 robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD has announced. 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