NYC's largest homeless shelter closing
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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An estimated 3,800 people under age 24 go homeless each night in New York City, but they blend in so well they are hard for social workers to find, according to the city's first-ever census of homeless youth.
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Say it isn't so ( "Flagship Filene's Basement to shut for makeover," Jan. 27). Like the mayor, I'm agitated by the news that Filene's Basement will temporarily close. When I travel to Boston, I don't even unpack before hitting the racks at Filene's. What a lousy way to treat loyal shoppers who would gladly put up with the construction while ...
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By Benjamin Spillman  By BENJAMIN SPILLMAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  A hotel-casino that was supposed to become "the anchor of the downtown market" remains shuttered almost one year after its owners closed the property and displaced nearly 700 workers.
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London's Millennium Dome, a futuristic building on the southern bank of the River Thames, has been turned into a temporary shelter for the homeless for a week starting, the charity Crisis announced.
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With Filene's Basement set to shutter its flagship store in several weeks, Downtown Crossing is facing its biggest challenge since the area was transformed into a pedestrian mall 30 years ago.
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Filene's Basement , the Boston landmark that birthed the bargain, said it will close its original downtown store this year, and it's unclear whether it will retain its famous "automatic markdown" system when it reopens after two years of renovation.
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The closings of the Huronia, Rideau and Southwestern Regional Centres in Orillia, Smith Falls and Chatham will mean 2,200 lost jobs in the centres and moving 1,000 people from institutions to community settings such as group homes.
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The parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut said it had temporarily closed several New York City restaurants owned by the franchisee that operated a Manhattan eatery overrun last week by rats.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  As a deep freeze grips the Milwaukee area with a stretch of bone- chilling temperatures, a network of homeless shelters continues its efforts to leave no one out in the cold.
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Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
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A homeless man arrested in the city's biggest fire in a decade will not be sent to prison. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Leszek Kuczera admitted to no crime in the 10-alarm blaze at a historic warehouse complex in Brooklyn. He will go to an alcohol-treatment program for about eight months.
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About 420 people will be laid off, with most of the cuts coming in New York. International offices will also close.
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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--GREENVILLE -- A loophole in the town's solid waste program that has allowed some residents to dump construction-demolition debris at the landfill for free will soon be closed.
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HAMMOND, La., March 4 -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday abruptly closed down a trailer site housing Hurricane Katrina victims  because of health and safety concerns. Its  residents said they were once again being left in the lurch since losing everything after the storm hit on...
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CAMBODIA PHNOM PENH -- A shelter for women and girls forced into the sex trade temporarily shut its doors yesterday after gunmen kidnapped 92 of its occupants and made death threats against the staff, the shelter's director said. Attackers stormed the shelter Wednesday and abducted 84 women and girls who had been rescued from a Phnom Penh brothel the day ...
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The city wants slum dwellers in apartments, but demolitions have left thousands homeless.