Year: 2022

A record number of New York homeless people died last year, according to a new report by the group Coalition for the Homeless, who called on the city and state to fund more housing units and remove cops from outreach responses to the Big Apple’s unhoused. ..Read More

At around 1 a.m. Tuesday, a group of NYPD officers was taking on some new tasks. An officer taps on the metal poll inside a subway car. “Can you have a seat please? You need shelter services?” he asks a man lying down. The person slowly sits up. ..Read More

The number of homeless people sleeping on New York’s streets and subways is higher than city officials estimate — and the shabby state of the city’s shelters is in part to blame, said a report published Tuesday by the Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said. ..Read More

The killer police say targeted homeless people in New York City and Washington D.C. is part of a disturbing trend: A growing number of unhoused people being murdered in the city. ..Read More

Policy director for “Coalition for the Homeless” Jacquelyn Simone, digs deeper into the disturbing acts of violence by a gunman who has targeted homeless men in New York City and Washington D.C. ..Read More

Police in New York City and in the nation’s capital launched a joint investigation Sunday into a series of attacks on homeless individuals. Shootings in Washington, DC and in NYC are believed to have been committed by the same individual, police said. Office ..Read More

TRIBECA, Manhattan (PIX11) — The death of a homeless man found on a Tribeca street Sunday evening has residents rattled as the NYPD and police in Washington D.C. investigate a series of attacks that they believe are connected. ..Read More

People openly smoke crack in bed. Weapons like brass knuckles and stun guns are stashed inside lockers. And there’s the constant fear of being assaulted or robbed. ..Read More