How New York’s Massive Homeless Population Endured Winter 2015

Several homeless men tell me subway cars would regularly be filled at night with those temporarily escaping blizzard after blizzard—at least until the morning commute. “It’s a major resource for us, so without it, I don’t know what to do,” Alberto Lora, 42 and homeless, told me the night of the first major blizzard, right before the subways were shut down. “The cops don’t know what to do with us anymore.”