Transit crews and homeless outreach workers found 29 “homeless encampments” in subway tunnels and another 89 in stations when they surveyed the city’s more than 650 miles of subway tracks and 472 stations over 12 hours from Feb. 2 to Feb. 3, officials said.
A startling number of New Yorkers have dropped dead in subway trains and stations this year and accounts from police and transit workers suggest the bulk of them were homeless people who turned to mass transit for shelter.