Month: February 2022

NEW YORK – Amid a rising concern about crime and homelessness on its subways, New York City plans to increase the presence of police officers and mental health care workers to stop people from sheltering in the subway and connect people with care and ot ..Read More

She used to live in Queens on Utopia Pkwy. She died homeless and alone in the bowels of a Long Island City subway station. ..Read More

Homeless people riding the subways will now be forced to leave the train at the end of the line and police will ramp up enforcement against spitting, laying down and littering on subways, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a press conference Friday with Governor Ka ..Read More

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