De Blasio: Just 3 percent of homeless booted from subways remain in shelters Posted on May 14, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in New York Post Just over 100 homeless people out of 3,333 approached by cops and outreach workers as they left the subway system during the overnight shutdowns have remained in shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Thursday. Between May 6, when the system first shuttered f ..Read More
‘Literally a Lifeline:’ Doctors Without Borders Is Getting Cell Phones to Homeless People so They Can Stay Connected During Coronavirus Posted on May 14, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in VICE Doctors Without Borders is known globally for dispatching its medical teams and logistical services to impoverished war-torn, famine-stricken, disaster-plagued countries that need life-saving services, fast. So when it set up shop in New York City at the onset ..Read More
Homeless Sent from Subways to Social Distancing Nightmares Posted on May 14, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in The City It’s around 2 o’clock in the morning and the beige marble lobby of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter in Manhattan has filled up with more than 20 homeless men just expelled from the city’s subways, trying to get some sleep. They are, to put it charitably, ..Read More
Governor Cuomo Owes Subway Riders and Homeless New Yorkers A Housing Plan Posted on May 13, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Gotham Gazette The subway is New York’s circulatory system. If it doesn’t recover, New York won’t. But reopening the subway and the city means more than running more trains: It also means helping homeless New Yorkers who today have nowhere else safe to go. ..Read More
Traveling With NYC’s Homeless to See What Happens When the Subways Shut Down Posted on May 13, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in NY1 Just after midnight, an entire transit system is winding down. A train ride to some, it’s called home to others. In an hour, it will close. The unprecedented move to shut down the subway for overnight cleaning is thrusting hundreds of the city’s homeless ..Read More
Why I slept on the subways: They were a safer refuge than shelters for homeless the public holds in contempt Posted on May 12, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in New York Daily News I was upset when I heard the announcement that the subways would be shut down overnight — not only because I have been sleeping on the subways for two years, but because of the dehumanizing language used to refer to myself and other homeless New Yorkers. Wit ..Read More
In New York’s subway shutdown, an unthinkable departure Posted on May 11, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not the end of the line. But it once was. When the first New York subway line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, the stop at 145th Street was its terminus. Since that inaugural run, the subway has never ceased running. There ..Read More
NYC Shuttles Homeless Men from Subway to Packed Shelter Posted on May 10, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in The City The convoy arrived in the chilly Manhattan darkness around 1:30 a.m.: vehicles pulling up one after the other outside 30th Street Men’s Shelter, the city’s biggest refuge for homeless New Yorkers. The passengers who emerged at this temporary bus stop all s ..Read More
The New York City Subway System Suspends Its Round-The-Clock Service Posted on May 6, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in NPR The New York City subway system has suspended its 24-hour service due to the coronavirus pandemic. Transit officials say they need more time to clean and have to save money while ridership is down. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the hallmarks of New York City was i ..Read More
