And Mr. de Jesús and his friends in Jamaica went no further than the entranceway at the top of the escalators leading down to the station, where they sat beside their belongings in the chilly drizzle.
Still, in other parts of the system nothing had changed. On a downtown 2 train at 149th St station in the Bronx, one sleeping man had an entire train car to himself as commuters packed into the next two cars to get away from a heavy smell. Another car had three people sleeping in it.
At 110th Street station in Manhattan, a man smoked crack on the platform in open view of two officers about 10 feet away.
On a downtown 3 train in Midtown Manhattan at 9 a.m., a man lay across four seats with a granny cart by his side, his legs resting across the knees of a woman in a black parka whose body was draped over his.
Across the doorway from them, Johnny Pruitt, commuting to his job at a gym, said he was not surprised, given that the new era had only been announced four days before.
“It would be nice if they had a place to put them,” said Mr. Pruitt, 39, who lives in Astoria, Queens.
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-mta-nyc.html
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