NEW YORK -- There was a major turn of events Friday in a legal battle on Staten Island. Asylum seekers that were kicked out of a shelter were later allowed to stay. That prompted protesters to ...

Some 200 asylum seekers were packed onto buses and taken to the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, leading to celebration among Staten Islanders who staged protests for weeks over the use of the ...

NEW YORK -- As plans are in the works for New York City to use federal land in Brooklyn to house asylum seekers, sources tell CBS New York that a former private school on Staten Island will be the ...

The city says the plan was to house about 50 asylum seekers on Staten Island -- single women and families, no single men. Twenty of them left because they felt unsafe. Meanwhile, Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Asylum seekers being housed in two Staten Island hotels will be here for at least six to nine months, officials said at a 121st Precinct Community Council meeting earlier ...

Authorities arrested a man late Wednesday a week after he allegedly hit an asylum seeker in the head with his phone outside a Staten Island migrant shelter. The NYPD identified Daniel Brongo ...

STATEN ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- The owners of a Staten Island pizza shop are being recognized for providing food to asylum seekers who are being sheltered in two Staten Island hotels.

TRAVIS, Staten Island (PIX11 ... The owner was unaware the women and children were asylum seekers who were staying at nearby hotels until the next day when more people showed up to eat ...