NEW YORK — Hundreds of homeless people were found camping out in subway tunnels and stations across New York City earlier this month, MTA officials said Thursday.
Transit crews and homeless outreach workers found 29 “homeless encampments” in subway tunnels and another 89 in stations when they surveyed the city’s more than 650 miles of subway tracks and 472 stations over 12 hours from Feb. 2 to Feb. 3, officials said.
In all, more than 350 people were living in the encampments, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief development officer Jamie Torres-Springer said during the agency’s monthly board meeting.
