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The new shelter, which will take cats and rabbits among others, will not be allowing dogs right away.

The hard-won 10-bed shelter left the Greenpoint Reformed Church.

The NYPD asked those who can to help, and provided shelter information for those in need.

Brooklyn Technical High School housed hundreds of elderly and ill evacuees.

George Washington High School is housing dozens of people who were homeless before the hurricane.

A raccoon found its way into an atrium at the Baisley Park branch in South Jamaica during the storm.

Residents who escaped Sandy with their lives took shelter in Staten Island.

DNAinfo.com New York has a list of the closest shelters across the city.

The shelter's opening was fought by neighbors, but welcomed by clients.

Curtis Forteau, 29, was laying on a cot in a homeless shelter on Wards Island when cops captured him.

A judge blocked the city from implementing a new homeless shelter policy pursued by Mayor Bloomberg.

Octavio Estevez and his family got a new home on Edgecombe Avenue, making him eligible for a transplant.

The number of protesters at Zuccotti Park dwindled overnight as protesters sought shelter on their first night without tents and sleeping gear.  

Some Occupy Wall Street protesters were heading towards a handful of Manhattan churches to seek shelter after being evicted from Zuccotti Park.

The policy, which was set to take effect Monday, would require homeless people seeking to shelter to prove they have nowhere else to go.