New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was pressed for answers Monday as a growing number of homeless men and women live on the sidewalks on Manhattan’s West Side.
The Mamdani administration has been accused of being too slow to respond to the homeless encampment that’s been growing between the Intrepid Museum and Javits Center.
West Side homeless encampment
At the bustling encampment on West 45th Street at 11th Avenue, people shave with water from a hydrant and use strips of plastic and cardboard to find shade.
The scenes are similar one block away on West 46th Street and all the way down to West 34th.
A woman who lives in an apartment nearby said the homeless population there keeps getting larger…