Posted on November 25, 2018 by Wes Parnell and Kenneth Lovett in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Wes Parnell and Kenneth Lovett Next stop, the third largest city in the state: Homelessville, N.Y. Alarming new data compiled by Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and the Coalition for the Homeless found that 254,866 New Yorkers were homeless at some point over the past year, a number exceeding the population of every community statewide except New York City and Buffalo.