Home News New York’s Homeless Pushed Dee... New York’s Homeless Pushed Deeper into the Shadows Posted on August 25, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena While accurate figures for New York’s unsheltered homeless are hard to come by, the thousands sleeping on the streets are in addition to the 53,615 people – a record-breaking figure not seen since the Great Depression – who enrolled in the city’s shelter system in January this year. Yankee Stadium would not be able to seat all of them.