NEW YORK — Homeless subway rider Diego Sergio de los Rios, sitting inside a train at the 242nd Street subway station in the Bronx, was actually looking forward to a visit from the New York Police Department.
Yet on day one of a new city initiative to assist the homeless across New York’s 472 subway stations, he had yet to see any evidence Monday morning of the outreach program announced last week to address the troubling and long-standing mass transit conundrum.
“None of the police officers ever approached me,” he said while fixing his socks on a seat inside a No. 1 train. “I wish one of them would ... so I could get to an agreement for them to put me in a homeless shelter.”
