Release of Body Worn Camera Footage from an Officer Involved Shooting that Occurred on January 26, 2026 in the confines of the 107th Precinct

 

The NYPD is today releasing body-worn camera footage from an officer-involved shooting that occurred on January 26, 2026, in the confines of the 107th Precinct.

The video includes available evidence leading up to the incident as well as during the incident. The NYPD is releasing this video for clear viewing of the totality of the incident.

All NYPD patrol officers are equipped with body-worn cameras, which provide transparency into police activity and serve as an independent account of interactions between the NYPD and the citizens they serve.

You can find the video here

Former Executive Director of Legal Services Non-Profit in Queens Pleads Guilty to Fraud

 

Lori Zeno Admits Embezzling Over $100,000 for Personal Vacations, Luxury Shopping, and Penthouse Apartment

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Lori Zeno, the former executive director of a legal services non-profit organization (the Organization), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for her role in a scheme to embezzle money from the Organization.  The proceeding was held before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon.  When sentenced, Zeno faces a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment as well as restitution and monetary penalties.

Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, James C. Barnacle, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Christopher Ryan, Acting Commissioner, New York City Department of Investigation (DOI), announced the guilty plea.

“The defendant brazenly betrayed and abused her position of trust as the director of a non-profit, stealing funds that were meant for legal services for disadvantaged clients and members of the community and then spending those funds on luxury goods and expensive vacations,” stated United States Attorney Nocella.  “Our Office will vigorously prosecute those who steal public funds and deprive members of our community of crucial resources.”

“Lori Zeno diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding intended for indigent residents to finance her lavish lifestyle. Zeno's abuse of authority deprived vulnerable New Yorkers of critical legal and community services.  The FBI is committed to holding accountable anyone who exploits their position for selfish greed, especially those entrusted with supporting the public,” stated FBI Assistant Director in Charge Barnacle.

“This defendant—the founder and leader of a legal services nonprofit—spent hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to provide legal representation for indigent New Yorkers on personal luxuries, including foreign travel, expensive meals, and rent for a penthouse apartment.  The City’s nonprofits provide vital public services and today’s guilty plea acknowledges the defendant’s misuse of those precious funds.  I thank our law enforcement partners in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their commitment to protecting these organizations and their scarce resources from exploitation and fraud.  DOI previously has made recommendations to the City to improve compliance and to strengthen oversight of spending at City-funded nonprofits and we urge the City to accept and implement those reforms,” stated DOI Acting Commissioner Ryan.

As set forth in court filings, Zeno co-founded and served as the executive director of the Organization, which provided legal services and community support services to indigent residents of Queens, New York.  Zeno hired her co-defendant, Rashad Ruhani, to work for the Organization in October 2023 and later married him in a religious ceremony.

Between June 2024 and January 2025, Zeno and Ruhani engaged in a corrupt scheme to embezzle funds from the Organization, diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars for their own personal benefit, including spending these stolen funds on foreign travel, expensive meals, luxury shopping, and rent for a penthouse apartment (the Penthouse Apartment).  Zeno and Ruhani made extravagant purchases with the Organization’s credit cards, spending over $10,000 on a vacation to Bali; $1,700 at a luxury resort in Santa Monica, California; $3,300 for an 85-inch smart television to be installed at the Penthouse Apartment; thousands of dollars in food deliveries to the Penthouse Apartment; and thousands of dollars at luxury retailers such as Ralph Lauren and Neiman Marcus.  In one instance, Zeno and Ruhani charged over $4,000 to an Organization credit card to buy a Louis Vuitton designer handbag.  As part of the conspiracy, Zeno repeatedly lied to the Organization, falsely characterizing personal expenses as business expenses to obtain the Organization’s approval.  To pay for the Penthouse Apartment, Zeno and Ruhani fraudulently obtained reimbursements from the Organization for over $39,000 in rent by submitting lease documents that were altered to conceal Zeno’s involvement.  Zeno also secured lucrative positions at the Organization for relatives and associates of Ruhani who did little or no substantive work, including hiring another woman married to Ruhani as the director of a non‑existent “health and wellness” program with a salary of $60,000.  As a result of Zeno’s misuse of its funds, the Organization lost its contract to provide criminal defense services to low-income New Yorkers.

Ruhani is scheduled to stand trial on June 1, 2026. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Two Defendants Charged With The Fentanyl Poisoning Of A Four-Year-Old In Brooklyn

 

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, and the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging AHUVA KATZIN and YITZCHOK SKLAR, a/k/a “Isak Sklar,” with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death in connection with the poisoning of SKLAR’s four-year-old child in Brooklyn on March 4, 2025.  KATZIN and SKLAR were arrested today, and SKLAR will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein.  KATZIN will be presented tomorrow before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon. 

“As alleged, Ahuva Katzin and Yitzchok Sklar sold drugs that caused the tragic death of Sklar’s own child,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.  “Instead of stopping, they allegedly continued to distribute fentanyl and other dangerous drugs across New York.  There are no good outcomes for deadly fentanyl in and around our city, and New Yorkers want it gone.  This Office will hold accountable those who distribute poison in our communities and will seek justice for the victims of these devastating crimes.” 

“Once again, we are forced to confront the reckless disregard for human life shown by those who allegedly traffic fentanyl and other illicit narcotics” said DEA New York Task Force Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Roberts.  “This case reminds us of the danger that fentanyl presents, especially when our most vulnerable, our children, are exposed to it.  A four-year-old’s home is the last place fentanyl should ever be.  This is a senseless tragedy, as is any loss of life from illicit narcotics, and we will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners to ensure justice is delivered.”

“Ahuva Katzin and Yitzchok Sklar have been indicted for their roles in a drug distribution conspiracy that led to the heartbreaking death of a four-year-old,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch.  “This case shows the NYPD’s continued commitment to getting deadly drugs out of our communities and going after the individuals who put our families—and their own—in harm’s way.  I would like to thank our NYPD investigators and our partners at the Drug Enforcement Agency and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for their work on this case and ensuring accountability for this devastating loss.”

As alleged in the Indictment, other public filings, and statements made in public court proceedings:[1]

From at least in or about 2023 through at least in or about 2025, KATZIN and SKLAR conspired to distribute fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine in New York City.  On March 4, 2025, exposure to the fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl distributed by KATZIN and SKLAR caused the death of SKLAR’s four-year-old boy who had been residing with his mother and SKLAR in an apartment in Brooklyn.

On the morning of March 4, 2025, after calling an ambulance service to report that the boy was experiencing a medical emergency, SKLAR attempted to hide his narcotics.  Video surveillance footage captured SKLAR leaving his dying child in the apartment while running out with a black bag and returning moments later without the bag.  The bag was later recovered from a nearby car rented by SKLAR and found to contain, among other things, fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl, and heroin.  A screenshot of SKLAR running out with the bag of drugs and a photo of the drugs later recovered by law enforcement officers are included below:

Following the boy’s death, KATZIN and SKLAR continued to work together to sell drugs throughout New York.

KATZIN, 33, and SKLAR, 34, both of Brooklyn, New York, are each charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The statutory minimum and maximum sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendants will be determined by a judge.

Mr. Clayton praised the outstanding work of the DEA and the NYPD in connection with this investigation.  Mr. Clayton also thanked the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.

This case is being handled by the Office’s Narcotics Unit.  Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meredith Foster and Henry Ross are in charge of the prosecution.

The charge contained in the Indictment is merely an allegation, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the entirety of the text of the Indictment and the description of the Indictment set forth in this release constitute only allegations, and every fact described should be treated as an allegation.

Mississippi Man Sentenced for Federal Civil Rights and Arson Charges for Setting Fire to Mormon Church

 

Stefan Day Rowold, 37, of Wiggins, Mississippi, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for vandalizing and setting fire to a house of worship. A jury in the Southern District of Mississippi found Rowold guilty of six counts of federal arson and civil rights charges after a trial in September 2025.

“Today’s sentence reflects the seriousness of the defendant’s reprehensible conduct,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. “Anyone who attacks a house of worship in America will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The evidence presented at trial last year showed that on July 5, 2024, and July 7, 2024, Rowold vandalized and set fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Wiggins, Mississippi. Evidence at trial also proved that Rowold targeted the church because of his animosity toward what he believed to be their religious views. Rowold confessed to police that he broke into the church building, vandalized the interior walls of the building with hateful messages, and ultimately set a fire in the middle of a multipurpose room. Rowold used the church’s hymnals, paintings, and other religious objects as kindling for his original arson offense. Rowold also confessed that after he learned that his first fire had failed to burn down the building, he broke into the church again two days later to finish the job, after police had attempted to secure the scene. Rowold then set a second fire against a wall inside the church, trying again to burn the building down.

Due to the damage from the fires, members of the church were unable to hold services in their church building for months. At sentencing, the district court awarded the church $176,564 in restitution.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Eikhoff of the FBI Jackson Field Office made the announcement.

The FBI Jackson Field Office investigated the case, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, the Mississippi State Fire Marshal, and the Wiggins Police Department.

Attorney General James Launches Legal Observation Project to Monitor Federal Immigration Enforcement in New York

New Initiative Will Send Trained OAG Legal Observers to Document Enforcement Actions and Protect New Yorkers’ Rights

New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the launch of the Legal Observation Project, a new Office of the Attorney General (OAG) initiative to monitor and document federal immigration enforcement activity in New York state and protect New Yorkers’ rights. Through the project, OAG will collect reports of enforcement actions throughout New York and send trained personnel to observe and document that activity where appropriate, as well as any related protests, as they occur. These legal observers will serve as neutral witnesses on the ground, recording information that may inform future legal action. As federal immigration enforcement activity increases nationwide, the Legal Observation Project will help ensure that accurate, real-time information is collected and preserved, and that any violations of law are identified. 

“As Attorney General, I am proud to protect New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to speak freely, protest peacefully, and go about their lives without fear of unlawful federal action,” said Attorney General James. “We have seen in Minnesota how quickly and tragically federal operations can escalate in the absence of transparency and accountability. My office is launching the Legal Observation Project to examine federal enforcement activity in New York and whether it remains within the bounds of the law.”

The project, staffed by trained OAG employees participating on a purely voluntary basis, will begin monitoring enforcement actions in the coming weeks. When necessary, OAG will send teams of legal observers to the location of reported immigration enforcement activity, outfitted in easily identifiable, purple OAG-branded safety vests, to witness and document enforcement actions. Observers will not interfere with enforcement activity; their role is solely to document federal conduct in a safe and lawful manner.

As New York’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General James has a responsibility to uphold the rule of law and protect the civil rights and constitutional freedoms of all New Yorkers. The Legal Observation Project will support this mandate by ensuring OAG has timely, accurate information to assess whether enforcement activity complies with the law.

Attorney General James is also urging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions directly to OAG through its secure online portal. Reports submitted through the portal will help OAG assess activity and determine whether further investigation is warranted. 

This project continues the office’s work to protect New York’s sovereignty. The OAG has released guidance for law enforcement agencies, health care providers, non-profits, schools, and workplaces on navigating cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officers.

Governor Hochul Highlights Proposals to Bring Down Costs of Vehicle Insurance Rates and Tackle Fraudulent Claims

Taking Steps To Battle Fraud, Limit Damages Paid Out to Bad Actors and Ensure Consumers, Not Insurance Companies, Are Prioritized

Proposals Build on Governor’s Ongoing Efforts To Make New York State More Affordable and Put Money Back Into Pockets of Hardworking New Yorkers

Governor Kathy Hochul today highlighted her proposals to bring down costs of vehicle insurance rates and tackle fraudulent claims across New York State. The Governor is taking common-sense steps to battle fraud, limit damages paid out to bad actors and ensure that consumers, not insurance companies, are prioritized. These proposals build on Governor Hochul’s ongoing efforts to make the state more affordable and put money back into the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers.

“New Yorkers know all too well that the cost of car insurance is just way too high, and for most, having a car is a daily necessity whether you’re required to travel for work or to run errands,” Governor Hochul said. “These common-sense proposals will not only crack down on fraudulent claims that drive up the cost of car insurance, they’ll put money back into the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers, allowing them a sense of relief.”

New Yorkers pay some of the highest car insurance rates in the nation — totaling just over $4,000 annually on average, nearly $1,500 above the national average. Car insurance rates are driven up by a combination of fraud, litigation, legal loopholes, and enforcement gaps, with staged crashes and associated insurance fraud inflating everyone’s premiums by as much as $300 per year on average according to some estimates.

Cracking Down on Fraud To Lower Rates for Everyday New Yorkers

Increasingly sophisticated actors stage elaborate accidents, designed to allow for “jackpot” payouts from insurance companies or jury awards, and these scams are becoming more prevalent. In 2023, there were 1,729 staged crashes in New York State, which ranks second highest in the nation for incidents of staged fraud. In total, insurance carriers reported 43,811 incidents of suspected motor vehicle insurance fraud to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Insurance Frauds Bureau in 2025. This is up from 24,238 incidents of suspected motor vehicle insurance fraud from 2020, an 80 percent increase in five years.

To combat these organized criminal efforts, Governor Hochul is taking a whole-of-government approach to cracking down on auto insurance fraud, including:

• Reinvigorating the State’s Motor Vehicle Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Board, empowering it to better support the ability to investigate and prosecute insurance fraud across the state
• Legislation to ensure prosecutors can seek criminal penalties against any individual responsible for organizing a staged accident, not just the particular individual behind the wheel
• Partnering with District Attorneys across New York to help build cases that put an end to the organized fraud that’s robbing New Yorkers via elevated insurance rates
• Strengthening efforts to take on medical providers who participate in fraud by signing off on phony medical diagnoses that result in enormous payouts
• Taking action when New York drivers illegally register their vehicles in other states, which artificially decreases their coverage and raises costs for law-abiding New York drivers

Strengthening Insurer Anti-Fraud Programs

Current law handcuffs insurers’ ability to protect their law-abiding customers against fraud and abuse by capping the time they have to identify and report instances of fraud to just 30 days. To ensure fraud is being identified and punished, Governor Hochul will increase the timeframe insurers have to report fraud and reduce barriers to alleging fraud in court, giving insurers more time to investigate claims and avoid paying fraudulent ones. Legislation will balance increased flexibility to crack down on fraud with the need to preserve crucial consumer protections.

Limiting Damages for Individuals Engaging in Unlawful Behavior at the Time of an Accident

When drivers are engaging in unlawful behavior at the time of an incident, they shouldn’t be able to win sizable insurance payouts. However, current law permits individuals committing crimes, including impaired driving, to receive generous payouts for non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering and emotional distress, which are paid from the premiums contributed by law-abiding drivers. Governor Hochul will cap the payout on these types of non-economic damages for drivers using or operating a car while engaging in criminal behavior at the time of the incident, including uninsured motorists, individuals convicted of driving while impaired at the time of the incident, and individuals committing a felony or fleeing one at the time of the incident.

Limiting Damages for Individuals Who Are “Mostly” At Fault in Causing an Accident

New York is in a minority of states that allow drivers that are deemed “mostly” at fault in an accident to still collect extensive damages, including non-economic damages. This means that in New York, even the driver deemed mostly at fault for an accident can walk away with a sizable payout for that accident. Most states have common-sense rules which only permit recovery of damages if a plaintiff is not primarily at fault for the accident. The Governor is seeking changes to the state’s laws that will limit the damages a driver can obtain if they are mostly at fault for an accident, introducing a measure of accountability for who is compensated by insurance after an incident.

Tightening the Serious Injury Threshold

New York’s no-fault insurance law allows for individuals seriously injured in an auto accident to make claims for compensation that stretch beyond reimbursement for the medical expenses or lost wages associated with an injury. This additional compensation is intended to offer support for non-economic damages, like the pain and suffering of victims with serious injuries. New York’s legal definition of serious injury is currently vague, applied inconsistently, and can include temporary injuries that only sideline an individual for a short time following an accident.

Governor Hochul will reform the serious injury threshold by proposing objective and fair medical standards for what qualifies as a serious injury. This reform will avoid unnecessary and expensive litigation, and help stop individuals from exploiting the system to win payouts that are not aligned with the severity of their injuries and push everyone else’s rates up.

Reforming Joint and Several Liability

In New York, in personal injury cases arising from auto accidents with more than one defendant, each defendant can be held responsible for the entire amount of non-economic damages, regardless of their allocation of fault, if the other defendants fail to pay.

New York would join 28 other states in adopting a rule that would change this standard for defendants who are less than 50 percent at fault, so that these defendants are held responsible only for the damage they caused. This will allow insurance companies to price premiums lower, since they will only have to account for damages caused by the people they are insuring.

Ensuring Consumers, Not Insurance Companies, Benefit From Savings

Since the 1970s, DFS has maintained the Excess Profit Law as a critical consumer protection against auto insurers making excess profits on the backs of consumers. This law acts as a “circuit breaker” by requiring auto insurers to return any profit exceeding a certain threshold directly to policyholders. While carriers have recently operated at a net loss, reforms to the auto insurance law as proposed above would be expected to significantly lower the costs of coverage. If these reforms are enacted, Governor Hochul will direct DFS to re-examine the Excess Profit Law and in particular the current threshold trigger, ensuring consumers are prioritized.

Increasing Transparency For Policyholders in the Auto Insurance Market

Too often, auto insurance rates for policyholders rise without explanation or relation to any identifiable change in context. In a time of high rates, New Yorkers deserve to understand when and why their insurance premiums go up. The Governor will increase transparency by requiring insurers to notify policyholders about rate changes and explain why the changes are happening.

Improving Incentives To Drive Safely

While guarding against bad actors gaming the system, insurance companies should also seek opportunities to reward drivers who play by the rules and keep themselves and others safe. Governor Hochul is seeking to reduce insurance costs by enlisting drivers as partners in her efforts to make our roads safer, leveraging technology to reduce insurance rates. The Governor will require insurance companies to offer discounts on insurance rates when drivers voluntarily opt into programs that have been shown to reduce unsafe driving and fraud.

 

NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE'S STATEMENT ON WINTER WEATHER DEATHS

 

"The deaths of New Yorkers on our streets in the last frigid week are tragic – no matter their causes of death, it is heartbreaking to know that our neighbors lost their lives out in the cold, and to think that something could have been done to prevent it. There needs to be a full accounting for what led to these losses, and expanded efforts to provide government support that helps ensure future pain is prevented – which my office is pushing for and which it seems the administration is pursuing. Unfortunately some are using the deaths of our fellow New Yorkers for bad-faith political and policy attacks.

"Clearing so-called 'encampments' as the past administration did, taking a person’s only possessions does nothing to ensure them warmth, protection, or permanent housing. These were policies born from a viewpoint that the homelessness crisis was about having to see it, not having to solve it. No evidence suggests that the New Yorkers we’ve lost were part of 'encampments' or would have been helped by removing one.

"I assume the loudest voices weaponizing these deaths will also now join in speaking out for expansions in supportive and deeply affordable housing and increased services for New Yorkers, instead of putting more effort into exploiting New Yorkers in death than they supported them in life."

EDITOR'S NOTE:

This poor excuse of an attack on former Mayor Eric Adams is saying that Public Advocate is endorsing the fact that new Mayor Zohran Mamdani does not know what to do in an emergency situation such as the one the city has gone through, and will be going through once again.

MAYOR MAMDANI ANNOUNCES OPENING OF NEW SAFE HAVEN SHELTER IN LOWER MANHATTAN

 

Low-barrier shelter, operated by nonprofit Breaking Ground, will offer 106 beds to homeless New Yorkers 

  

New shelter adds to single-room shelter facility in Upper Manhattan, warming buses, health centers, and other steps to address extended Code Blue emergency 

TODAY, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Department of Social Services (DSS) Commissioner Molly Wasow Park announced the opening of a new Safe Haven shelter in Lower Manhattan to accommodate 106 New Yorkers in need of services. The shelter, which will be operated by longtime nonprofit service provider Breaking Ground, will serve exceptionally vulnerable New Yorkers, including older adults. The Mamdani administration accelerated the opening of the facility as a part of its ongoing work to bring homeless New Yorkers indoors to safe and warm locations during this historic cold snap.

 

“We are deploying every tool at our disposal to keep New Yorkers safe, warm, and indoors. This new facility in Lower Manhattan will help older and our most medically vulnerable New Yorkers get off the street and into stable shelter with the services that they need,” said Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani. “City workers across the five boroughs are working overtime to provide services to those in need, clear the streets, pick up trash, and keep our city running. As the cold continues, I urge all New Yorkers to look out for your neighbors, call 311 if you see someone in need, and stay safe and warm indoors.”  

  

“We applaud Mayor Mamdani’s strong commitment to supporting our most vulnerable New Yorkers and investing in housing solutions and resources that serve their unique needs,” said DSS Commissioner Molly Wasow Park. “With the expedited opening of this site we are leaving no stone unturned in our response to the ongoing weather emergency and ensuring we are making all kinds of transitional housing options available for New Yorkers in need with the goal of meeting them where they are. We placed more than 1,000 New Yorkers in permanent homes from Safe Havens and stabilization bed sites last year, and we know they are an effective tool for addressing unsheltered homelessness. We look forward to working closely with the community to identify ways to collaboratively serve our neighbors in need as we build on the progress strengthening permanent housing outcomes for them.”  

  

This new facility will help support the need for dedicated resources to address the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness in lower Manhattan. Safe Havens are a type of low-barrier facility with smaller settings and is equipped with on-site services and staff who work closely with clients to build trust, stabilize lives, and encourage further transition off the streets and ultimately into permanent housing. These facilities are often the first step towards getting homeless New Yorkers inside and are specifically targeted to individuals who may be resistant to accepting other services.  

  

“At a time when the need for safe, dignified housing has never been greater, we’re grateful to our partners at the City for helping make this space possible," said Brenda Rosen, President and CEO of Breaking Ground. "With more than 35 years of work supporting people experiencing homelessness, we know that low-barrier transitional housing like this can be a critical first step toward stability, health, and hope. We look forward to providing much-needed services and remaining a strong partner to the local community.”  

  

The Mamdani administration also recently announced an emergency expansion of single-room-occupancy style shelter units in Upper Manhattan, and has made 20 overnight mobile warming units such as buses and vans available to provide warmth, medical care, and transport to warming centers, hospitals, or shelters as needed. Since January 19th, DSS outreach workers have made 980 placements of homeless New Yorkers into shelters, and the Mamdani administration has stepped up additional outreach efforts with agency and external partners.  

  

New Yorkers who see someone in need of assistance should call 311, which will be directed to 911 during overnight hours. During the ongoing Code Blue emergency, outreach teams attempt to make contact with homeless New Yorkers every four hours, and first responders help respond to 311 calls for people in need of assistance on the street. Shelters have relaxed intake policies, and no one will be turned away.