The number includes individuals who entered a shelter after Department of Social Services outreach teams engaged them in the city’s subway system since the mayor's safety program kicked off in February, a spokesperson says.
City Hall says that outreach teams are engaging with more than 700 "people in need" riding the subway every day.City Hall says that outreach teams are engaging with more than 700 "people in need" riding the subway every day.
“Three months into our work making subways safer and connecting New Yorkers in need with services, and it is evident that our efforts are working,” Adams said in a prepared statement. “We have connected more than 1,300 New Yorkers with shelter and other vital services and our teams are making hundreds of engagements every day on the subways, a monumental milestone.”
But homeless advocates said that simply reporting a number doesn’t say much about the quality of services that those New Yorkers received. Craig Hughes, a social worker with the Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center, told Gothamist on Wednesday that Adams’ announcement seemed more in service of providing good press than substantive information. He referred to the policy as “broken windows policing” and said that NYPD officers should not be part of the outreach teams.
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