extraordinary shortage

New York's health-care system is suffering extraordinary shortages of beds, workers and money that are curtailing access to treatment and jeopardizing the quality of patient care, according to medical experts.

But the same booming economy that has drawn so many immigrants to Long Island has also created an extraordinary shortage of affordable housing and enabled some landlords to charge thousands of dollars a month to groups of men who then split the rent as many as 10 or 20 ways.