More than 6,000 homeless people found sleeping on trains and platforms in the city’s subway system over the last year were helped by a special task force of NYPD cops, nurses and mental health professionals offering shelter and other services, Mayor Adams announced Friday.
Through the one-year-old initiative, known as Partnership Assistance for Transit Homelessness , or PATH, cops and outreach workers have made more than 20,000 contacts with homeless men and women on the subway and provided “tailored support” to 6,100 people, Adams said.
“That could be a hot meal, a bed for the night or a hospital evaluation if they seem at risk of harming themselves or others,” Adams said at the Times Square subway station Friday, with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and members of the city’s Depa