Mayor Eric Adams asserted that his administration has significantly advanced efforts to remove individuals experiencing homelessness from the subway system during a press conference at a busy transit hub. Despite skepticism from critics regarding the perceived effectiveness, he highlighted the Partnership Assistance for Transit Homelessness (PATH) program's engagement with 11,000 unhoused individuals since its inception in August 2024 and reported over 3,000 instances of assistance through shelter, food, and medical care. The Mayor emphasized the urgency of addressing these humanitarian issues while outlining the collaboration with NYPD in enforcing transit regulations.
Allowing people to sleep in our subway system, allowing people to sleep on our streets it's just inhumane, and we were unwilling to just walk by our fellow brothers and sisters and see them suffering with mental health issues and act like it does not exist.
PATH is our innovative way to ensure that we use all of our resources to tackle this problem.
The program also includes the NYPD Transit Bureau, which, along with assisting the outreach teams, has issued 290 summonses and removed 911 people from the transit system for violating quality of life conditions.
Chief Gulotta also pointed out that police have been attempting to zero in on subway recidivists to return to the bowels of the city to commit crimes.
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