{"id":39566,"date":"2026-02-09T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=39566"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:16:08","slug":"mayor-mamdani-visits-city-warming-center-thanks-city-workers-and-partners-as-temperatures-remain-dangerously-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/39566","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani visits city warming center, thanks city workers and partners as temperatures remain dangerously low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani visited a Manhattan warming center, where\u00a0he met with homeless New Yorkers\u00a0and thanked\u00a0city workers, non-profit partners and volunteers working around the clock to bring people indoors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The visit followed a stop on Staten Island, where Mayor Mamdani visited firefighters and emergency medical service workers on Staten Island to thank them for their efforts during the severe cold snap.<\/p>\n<p>Both visits\u00a0come as the Mamdani administration continues a whole-of-government response to the winter weather emergency and announced new measures to increase safe haven and warming site capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemperatures remain dangerously low, and we are mobilizing every part of government to keep people safe,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we head into the\u00a0week, I am urging New Yorkers to stay indoors, take extra precautions,\u00a0and be safe. If you see anyone outside who needs help,\u00a0please call 311.\u00a0Our outreach workers will connect them to warming centers,\u00a0safe haven\u00a0sites\u00a0and shelters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the coldest weekend of the winter,\u00a0Mayor Mamdani announced\u00a0roughly 60\u00a0new hotel shelter units, along with additional warming center and vehicle capacity, bringing the total number of warming facilities citywide over the weekend to\u00a0nearly 65.<\/p>\n<p>The city also\u00a0deployed\u00a0additional\u00a0mobile warming units equipped with clinicians and other vital resources and announced new partnerships to strengthen direct street outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The city took further steps to support vulnerable New Yorkers, announcing additional safe haven beds and the launch of at least 150 more direct street outreach workers \u2013 supplementing the over 400 Department of Homeless Service outreach workers who have already been out in the field around the clock since the Code Blue emergency began.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani has also taken innovative steps to increase\u00a0public awareness for the resources available to those in need and made direct appeals to homeless New Yorkers to come indoors through a citywide LinkNYC campaign, as well as by launching a tool on the kiosks to\u00a0locate\u00a0the nearest warming center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani visited a Manhattan warming center, where\u00a0he met with homeless New Yorkers\u00a0and thanked\u00a0city workers, non-profit partners and volunteers working around the clock to bring people indoors. The visit followed a stop on Staten Island, where Mayor Mamdani visited firefighters and emergency medical service workers on Staten Island to thank them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39567,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions\/39567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}