{"id":550276,"date":"2026-01-28T23:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550276\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:49:13","slug":"nyc-homeless-outreach-teams-working-around-the-clock-during-frigid-stretch-mayor-mamdani-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550276\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC homeless outreach teams working around the clock during frigid stretch, Mayor Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says outreach crews are working around the clock to get people experiencing homelessness off the streets during this frigid stretch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He provided a brief update Wednesday morning on the cold-related deaths the city has seen in recent days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are suspecting at this time that of the 10 deaths that we have spoken about, that about seven had hypothermia playing a role,”\u00a0 Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

With temperatures feeling like the single digits, homeless outreach teams are responding to 311 calls across the city, providing transport to shelters.<\/p>\n

Outreach crews have helped over 200 in past week, City Hall says<\/p>\n

CBS News New York’s Ali Bauman joined one of those teams Wednesday for an exclusive look at how it tries to convince people into shelter.<\/p>\n

Snow or shine, Aly Coleman and her team of about a dozen others from the Center for Urban Community Services Street Outreach walk the streets of East Harlem, checking on people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n

“In the past week and a half or so, we have managed to encourage quite a few people to come inside. I would say probably 10, I would say, within the past few days,” Coleman said.<\/p>\n

They are some of the hundreds of outreach workers funded and deployed by City Hall to convince people to come out of the cold and into shelter.<\/p>\n

“There are just so many people that my team worries about on a daily basis, and right now, obviously, that’s just even more increased,” Coleman said.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Mamdani joined some of their counterparts in Midtown. City Hall said crews have gotten more than 200 people into shelter since last week.<\/p>\n

Consistency builds trust over time, advocate says<\/p>\n

Coleman said the most difficult part of the outreach work is when they can’t find someone they know is in need of help.<\/p>\n

“When there’s someone we’re looking or we know is staying in an area on the street generally, and then we can’t find them,” she said.<\/p>\n

That’s what happened Wednesday at East 117th Street, where a snowy corner sat empty.<\/p>\n

“I’d love to know where this particular client is, but at the same time, in this person’s case, he’s pretty resourceful,” Coleman said.<\/p>\n

Still, the uncertainty lingered on a 20-degree day that would turn into a 5-degree night.<\/p>\n

“The hope is that the people who are not outside right now are somewhere warm,” Coleman said.<\/p>\n

She said the teams may not be successful in getting someone off the street every day, but that consistency year-round builds trust over time for weeks like these when being outdoors can be life or death.<\/p>\n

Coleman added she’s upping staffing to work longer hours for the next few days.<\/p>\n

\n

Doug Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n

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