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www.nyc.gov /acs. The New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is a New York City government agency that prosecutes parents, caregivers, and juveniles in child protective service and delinquency proceedings in New York City. ACS has been the subject of numerous civil rights lawsuits involving the wrongful removals and deaths ...
Orphan train. The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating from about 200,000 children. [1] The co-founders of the orphan train ...
The Wolfpack. The Wolfpack is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Crystal Moselle. It is about the Angulo family, who homeschooled and raised their seven children (six boys and one girl) in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. The film premiered on January 25, 2015, at the Sundance Film Festival ...
Release. March 29, 2023. (2023-03-29) Emergency NYC is a Netflix documentary series [1] about New York City's healthcare [2] professionals [3][4] as they strive to achieve a balance between their professional and personal lives. The series was developed by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, creators of Lenox Hill, [5][6][7][8][9][10] and premiered on ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
The Department of Investigation (DOI) is a law enforcement agency that serves as an independent and nonpartisan watchdog for New York City government. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. The Law Department (Law) is responsible for most of the ...
Murder of Elisa Izquierdo. Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) [3] was a six-year-old Puerto Rican – Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 ...
Information. Opened. 1947. Closed. 1987. Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000.