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City officials report 14 deaths linked to hypothermia during the prolonged cold snap and have placed over 860 unhoused individuals into shelters, Mayor Mamdani said.
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on February 1, 2026 that 14 people have died outside during dangerously cold weather.
- Since Jan. 19, the emergency code has been in effect and officials have forcibly removed people experiencing homelessness from the streets to save lives.
- City officials deployed expanded outreach and sheltering with more than 860 placements, 17 on-call ambulette teams, 20 warming buses, and 16 involuntary transports; officials urge calling 311 for help.
- Preliminary findings show hypothermia contributed to eight deaths, and officials are awaiting final results from the medical examiner's office.
- Mamdani said `By making new single-room units available, we are meeting people where they are and removing barriers that keep too many New Yorkers out in the cold` as the city opened units in Upper Manhattan and melted 67 million pounds of snow, using 188 million pounds of salt.
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With 14 New Yorkers dead in the cold, Mayor Mamdani must restore homeless encampment sweeps
Mayor Zohran Mamdani must immediately reverse his policy of allowing homeless encampments to proliferate on the streets of NYC. Fourteen New Yorkers have already died on the streets amid record-breaking cold, and the encampment sweeps initiated by Mayor Adams could well prove a critical tool in averting any more needless fatalities. With some questions still unanswered about how the 14 died, it’s impossible to draw a straight line between the po…
New York's prime minister, Zohran Mamdani, announced on the 11th day of an exceptional cold wave, that the metropolis recorded 13 "in which the hypothermia played a role", AFP reports.
New York deplores 13 deaths "in which hypothermia played a role," said Mayor Zohran Mamdani. None of these people were camping on the street at the time of their death, added the column. - New York: 13 deaths of hypothermia due to the cold wave (International).
For eleven days, temperatures have been particularly low. 930 homeless people have obtained places in shelters.
To deal with this situation, the municipality has set up a fleet of 20 vehicles with health personnel and emergency heating centres on board, and has increased its capacity to host collective and individual shelters.
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