A week after the New York Post falsely conflated the work of the homeless advocacy group Picture the Homeless with "pimps" and "hookers," the paper obtained a letter from City Counsel attorney Elizabeth Fine asking for a probe of the non-profit that may shut off its funding—PTH was scheduled to receive $50K this fiscal year. The Post's subheadline for the web article begins, " 'Picture' this:" Yeah! Take that, organization working to enact meaningful social change. more ›

Cue the ACORN outrage: The Post reports that the taxpayer-supported organization Picture the Homeless hosts "a crash course on squatting" in city-owned buildings. more ›

With foreclosed buildings popping up left and right across the country, what to do? Start squatting, obvs. And would you lookie here, the pop-up Trade School at 32 Prince Street is offering a class on just that subject! Even better the class, like all of the classes at the Trade School, is a barter for instruction deal. The bad news? The class is already maxed out. more ›

Oh sure, we hear all the time about drug dealers and faith healers squatting in dilapidated spaces and semi-abandoned buildings all over the city; but how often do you hear about a six-figure lawyer squatting in the Empire State Building? more ›

We're guessing that somewhere in the Squatter's Handbook it says something about keeping quiet, not complaining, laying low... that sort of thing. The NY Post reports on one man who found himself a nice $2,500/month Williamsburg apartment... for free, because he didn't, like, tell anyone he was moving in. They report, the "squatter felt so at home that he called the city to complain about the heat," or lack thereof. When the NYPD showed up Tuesday, he started punching and kicking them! And as a grand finale to his squatting stint, while being taken away, he told the landlord that he was going to fucking kill him. more ›

Henry Logue made almost $100,000 in salary and overtime last year, but continued to live in a paint shed at state-run Rockland Psychiatric Center, according to the Journal News. Apparently he had been living there for three years--even registering his car there--all while his wife lived in a home 3 miles away. more ›