NYC won’t tear down street encampments, Mamdani says – as homeless people spotted camping out during historic blizzard

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that street encampments won’t be torn down during one of the worst blizzards in New York City’s history — even as homeless people kept camping out and rejecting offers for shelter. The bomb cyclone offered a new wintry test for Mamdani’s administration after its response to another storm in January descended into a prolonged, deadly crisis that consumed much of his first 60 days in office. “The blizzard is a time when our focus should be not on physical infrastructure, but on people and on getting them indoors,” Mamdani argued during a news conference over Winter Storm Hernando.