Homeless advocates expressed skepticism about how the numbers were characterized.
The scene of a recent standoff at an encampment in the East Village.Thirty-nine unsheltered New Yorkers came indoors through Mayor Eric Adams’ ongoing push to sweep the city of encampments — after 733 site visits by city workers and 710 encampment sweeps — according to data provided by his office Tuesday.
“I have said since we started this initiative that every New Yorker deserves dignity, and we are demonstrating that this is possible,” Adams said in a prepared statement. “Our teams are working professionally and diligently every day to make sure that every New Yorker living on the street knows they have a better option while ensuring that everyone who lives in or visits our city can enjoy the clean public spaces we all deserve.”initiative, after more than two hundred sweeps.
“That isn’t something to brag about. That is a colossal failure,” Hughes said, adding that the number didn’t take into account the, “exhaustion, trauma and desperation that people had to experience during those sweeps.”
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