Critics are enraged by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hands-off policy leaving homeless New Yorkers on the streets during extreme cold, and pleading that the city do anything in its power to protect the vulnerable population. But the administration refused to budge as the Big Apple’s winter death toll rose to 18 — even as a nearby big-city mayor admired by Mamdani rolled out a policy to get people inside.
“When a person is in imminent danger, there is no debate. I don’t think this kind of ideological divides should have any impact on these policies during a ‘Code Blue,’” Brian Stettin, who served as a senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, told The Post. He called the case of a mumbling homeless woman who braved sub-Antarctic temperatures featured on The Post’s Monday front page “infuriating,” and said cases like hers should be a no-brainer. “They should be doing everything they can to get them inside. That is why we need cops out on the streets. We are talking about an imminent threat to rights or safety, there shouldn’t be any debate with advocates over that.”
