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154K NYC public school kids are homeless, grim data reveals

A record-high 154,000 public school students — or nearly one in seven —  were homeless across New York City during the last school year, grim new data revealed Monday. Of those children, more than 65,000 were forced to spend at least one night in a Big Apple homeless shelter and…

Costumed canines strut stuff in NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade

Their boo is worse than their bite. Hundreds of four-legged New Yorkers — and thousands more onlookers — took to Manhattan’s streets in a cavalcade of costumes Sunday as part of the 35th annual Halloween Dog Parade. The quirky East Village tradition trekking down Avenue B featured show-stopping pooches in…