Footage Shows Homeless New Yorkers Sleeping on NYC Subways Amid Pandemic

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees are citing concerns about the influx of homeless New Yorkers sleeping on subway lines amid the 🦠Coronavirus Outbreak.

Footage of a No. 2 train now circulating on social media captures how the subways have transformed into homeless shelters.

The video —reportedly filmed by an MTA employee on Sunday morning— shows a countless number of New Yorkers asleep. As the employee walks through train after train, more homeless people are seen sprawled out.

During a news interview with WLNY, MTA train operator Yann Hicks voiced his concerns about the health risks he’s facing due to the unsanitary conditions he’s currently working in.

A frustrated Hicks noted that nearly all of the homeless people on the “dirty” subway trains have no masks.

“The virus is going back and forth, back and forth in dirty trains with people, homeless, and everybody with no masks on. There’s a problem here,” Hicks said.

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While most of the photos circulating show deserted landmarks around New York City, Hicks noted that the reason is because most people are underground —in the subways where he works.

“You look at the videos of Times Square. It’s empty outside. You look at the videos all over the place, it’s empty because everybody’s underground. There’s a whole city of people underground,” Hicks said.

Despite MTA employees’ concerns, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insists the city has taken “aggressive action” to assist approximately 1,700 homeless people on the subway line.