Sometimes life in a homeless shelter is more than a 14-year-old can handle. Francheska Luciano, who is among a growing number of homeless children in the city, said living in a shelter was "like living in hell.” "I’m tired of this,” she said Friday while sitting on a curb outside a shelter intake center in the Bronx with her mother and little sisters. "It’s a nightmare every day.”
The number of children in the city’s shelters hit 19,000 last week, the most recent city data available show.
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