Homeless Stranded by Subway Shutdown End up on Streets and Buses Posted on May 6, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in The City More than 90% of the estimated 2,000 homeless New Yorkers who have been sleeping on trains and in stations during the pandemic ended up on streets and buses after the first overnight subway shutdown. Just 139 people migrated to city shelters, NYPD officia ..Read More
Closing New York subway will have ‘devastating’ impact on homeless, experts warn Posted on May 6, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in The Guardian New measures to close the New York subway for nightly coronavirus cleaning will have “devastating” consequences for the thousands of homeless people who regularly sleep there, experts have warned. Starting on Wednesday, for the first time in its histo ..Read More
The largest mobile soup kitchen in America is scrambling to keep up with a 50% spike in demand Posted on May 6, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Business Insider In a kitchen in Harlem, volunteers prepare vats of hot soup every evening, meant to feed hundreds of homeless people across New York City. Juan de la Cruz, who runs the Grand Central Food Program, helps the volunteers by preparing the so ..Read More
The Homeless Will Soon Be Forced Out Of The Subway Overnight. Where Will They Go? Posted on May 4, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Gothamist When New York City’s nightly subway shutdown begins on Wednesday, Ann Marie Finley doesn’t know where she’ll sleep. One of the city’s estimated 3,600 street homeless, Finley said that she hadn’t heard about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ..Read More
Homeless in NYC: Scared of shelters during COVID-19 crisis Posted on May 4, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Associate Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three hours before mealtime, a line begins to form on the sidewalk outside St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, facing Park Avenue in one of New York City’s poshest neighborhoods. By 5:30 p.m., when plastic bags of carry-away suppers are u ..Read More
Fears overnight closure of New York subway will push homeless ‘into the shadows’ Posted on May 4, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Reuters NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Plans to close New York City’s subways at night to disinfect trains during the coronavirus pandemic risk pushing hundreds of homeless people “further into the shadows”, housing experts warned, calling for saf ..Read More
Subway closure ‘outright disaster’ for the homeless who have few safe shelter options, advocates say Posted on May 2, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Subway closure 'outright disaster' for the homeless who have few safe shelter options, advocates say ..Read More
Pols Keep Making Homelessness a Transit Issue, But it is a Housing Issue Posted on April 30, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in StreetsBlog NYC Homeless people seeking shelter in the subway system is neither a transit issue nor a policing issue — but city and state leaders are now battling over different ways to move people along or criminalize them without addressing the central issue, transit and ..Read More
NYC hotels ‘lining up’ to take homeless during coronavirus crisis: advocate Posted on April 30, 2020 by Sarah Murphy in Daily News New York City’s hoteliers — faced with empty rooms and looming tax bills — are ready and willing to help house the homeless during the coronavirus crisis, an industry spokesman told the Daily News. The city’s not yet ready to expand its current hotel p ..Read More
