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August 21, 2025 Amsterdam NewsFortune Society’s Seventh Annual Victor Rojas Block Party honors community ‘inspiration’
The Fortune Society will host its seventh annual Victor Rojas Block Party on August 22, bringing families, alumni, and local partners together at its Castle Gardens residence in Harlem in honor of a community hero and friend.
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August 20, 2025 The Daily News
NYC’s nonprofit housing for the justice-involved
The Fortune Society, Housing Works, and HousingPlus deliver quality living accommodations, care, and — when needed — substance abuse and mental health services. But the work doesn’t stop there — and neither does its impact.
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August 15, 2025 City Limits
Funding Boost Could Fulfill City’s Pledge to Expand Housing for New Yorkers Who Cycle Between Shelter and Jail
The city’s latest budget includes funds to grow the number of apartments in the Justice-Involved Supportive Housing program (JISH) from 120 to 500. That expansion was among the commitments the city made in its 2019 agreement to close Rikers Island.
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August 11, 2025 Queens Daily Eagle
City announces new Rikers reentry pilot program
The city is piloting a program that gives Rikers Island detainees municipal IDs in the hopes that it eases their transition back into city life.
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July 26, 2025 New York YIMBY
Castle III’s Façade Progresses at 107 East 123rd Street in East Harlem, Manhattan
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July 10, 2025 New York Amsterdam News
Adopted FY26 budget ramps up efforts to close Rikers Island
Public safety investments in the adopted $115.9 billion budget centered on the city’s mandate to close Rikers Island as the legal deadline approaches the two-year mark at the end of next month.
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