Year: 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is making an aggressive push to try to remove homeless people from the city’s sprawling subway system, announcing a plan to start barring people from sleeping on trains or riding the same lines all night. ..Read More

Mayor Eric Adams announced a new plan Friday to clean up the city’s subway system by cracking down on rule-breaking and preventing people from living on the trains and in the stations. ..Read More

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday unveiled a new plan to deal with homelessness and crime in the New York City subway system. ..Read More

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday released a new plan to improve safety on the subway, saying he intends to mobilize his entire administration to prevent violence underground and ensure those experiencing homelessness in the system get the help they need. ..Read More

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Friday unveiled an aggressive plan to remove all homeless people from the transit system. ..Read More

Mayor Adams vowed to tackle homelessness on the city’s subway system on Friday with an ambitious new plan that will rely, in part, on more funding from the state for shelter and medical treatment. ..Read More

Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday an aggressive plan to deploy police officers and mental-health workers into New York City’s subway, pledging to remove more than 1,000 homeless people who shelter there regularly, some of whom have c ..Read More

A pink stun gun sits buried in 20-year-old Britney Low’s purse. Katja Vehlow, 51, avoids the edges of the subway platform. She sticks to the center until her train arrives. ..Read More

A startling number of New Yorkers have dropped dead in subway trains and stations this year — and accounts from police and transit workers suggest the bulk of them were homeless people who turned to mass transit for shelter. ..Read More