""I didn't know the snow was coming that day, so I got stuck here," Galaraza, 40, said. A blanket of snow swallowed his surroundings, and a single pair of footprints - Galarza's own - marked the way to his camp. None of the city's 400-plus homeless outreach specialists, he said, had come to visit so far during the cold spell."
"A blanket of snow swallowed his surroundings, and a single pair of footprints - Galarza's own - marked the way to his camp. None of the city's 400-plus homeless outreach specialists, he said, had come to visit so far during the cold spell. "Nobody even shoveled anything over here," he added, pointing to a small clear patch in front of his fort, assembled with cardboards and folded tables and covered overhead with tarps held down by cinder blocks."
"Homeless outreach specialists have placed 170 unhoused New Yorkers into shelters and transitional housing since Jan. 19 as the agency began to prepare for record snowfall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a briefing Monday. The Department of Homeless Services could not immediately provide an update to that figure Thursday, but spokesperson Neha Sharma said outreach workers have made 620 referrals to its facilities from Jan. 19 through Wednesday afternoon - a number that counts an individual for each night they're placed into a shelter."
A heavy snowfall left public spaces blanketed and some encampments cordoned off while many unhoused New Yorkers stayed outside. Outreach workers reported placing 170 people into shelters and transitional housing since Jan. 19 and recorded 620 referrals to facilities from Jan. 19 through Wednesday afternoon, counting each night a person is placed. Most referrals involved individuals who had previously resisted shelter offers. The city's point-in-time estimate counts more than 4,500 people living on the street. Many unsheltered people continued sleeping near heat vents, in subway stations, parks, restaurant vestibules and on street corners.
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