Overview
- A Code Blue emergency remains in effect during one of the city’s longest subfreezing stretches in decades, triggering round-the-clock outreach, relaxed intake rules, and routing 311 calls to 911.
- Officials have opened 50 single-room shelter units for people wary of congregate settings and deployed 20 mobile warming vehicles staffed by clinicians.
- Outreach teams report more than 930 placements into shelters or safe havens, and 18 people have been transported involuntarily after being deemed a danger to themselves or others.
- The mayor says none of the 16 people who died were living in encampments, as debate continues over the suspension of routine encampment clearings.
- City officials say at least 10 of those who died had prior contact with the shelter system, with the most recent fatalities reported in Manhattan and Brooklyn.