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City Counts Over 4,000 Homeless on the Streets
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 24, 2005
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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The results of the big survey the Department of Homeless Services conducted earlier this year to find out how many homeless New Yorkers there are show that just under 4,400 people are living on the streets. The numbers break out this way: Brooklyn has 592 homeless people, 587 in the Bronx, 1,805 in Manhattan, 315 in Queens, 231 in Staten Island and 845 live in the subways. The DHS will use this survey to better gauge how well their efforts to battle homelessness actally do. Newsday also points out that the homeless popultations in Chicago, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle and San Francisco are greater.
Read the DHS's press release. And here are organizations you can volunteer with to donate time or other goods to the homeless.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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