STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Thousands of New York City residents have been booted from their homes this year as the city’s housing affordability crisis makes it harder and harder for New Yorkers to keep a roof over their heads.

The Staten Island Advance/SILive.com recently analyzed residential eviction data from New York City’s Open Data portal to determine how many New Yorkers have been evicted through the first roughly seven and a half months of 2025.

The data set includes all residential evictions throughout the five boroughs from Jan. 1 through August 19, the last date for which data was available at the time of the analysis.

Through August 19, there were 11,259 residential evictions across New York City, with the Bronx leading the way with 3,749.

Brooklyn had the second-most residentia

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