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Home Front: Politix
Subway closure 'outright disaster' for the homeless who have few safe shelter options, advocates say
2020-05-03
[NEWS.YAHOO] Homeless New Yorkers will face an even more threatening and dangerous situation when the city shuts down the subway system from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., according to advocates.

The shutdown was announced by New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio
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in a joint presser on Thursday.

Cuomo said closing the subway for those hours would allow the cars to be sanitized every 24 hours during the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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pandemic. De Blasio said that it would also benefit any homeless people who ride the subway during that time.

"If you're not going back and forth all night on a train, then you actually are coming above ground, where outreach workers are there to help you, where NYPD officer's training in the homeless outreach are there to support homeless people and get them to a better situation," de Blasio said.

Advocates for the homeless felt differently.

"It's just an outright disaster," Joshua Goldfein, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, a New York City-based nonprofit that launched the Homeless Rights Project this year, told ABC News.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Should have moved them to the Hospital ship that was floating nearby, empty. They should have run all subway cars, instead of half, and enforced masks and social distancing for those that must ride.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-05-03 11:42  

#1  Homeless and rats hit hardest.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-03 07:36  

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