{"id":7719,"date":"2021-07-07T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:56:55","slug":"what-those-living-on-the-streets-do-in-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"What Those Living on the Streets Do in the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>With a heat advisory for New York City, those experiencing homelessness tell of how they handle the heat<\/b><\/h2>\n<h6><em>By Andrew Fraieli<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for New York City on Monday July 5, active through July 7th with temperatures forecast up to 102 \u2014 and those experiencing homelessness may be outside the entire time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city suggests staying in air conditioned spaces, such as \u201cgoing to the movies, walking in an air-conditioned mall, or swimming at a pool or beach,\u201d and staying out of the sun, but often overlooked during extreme weather are those living on the streets. They don\u2019t always have many places to go, and aren\u2019t necessarily welcomed where they might find temporary reprieve from the outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some people experiencing homelessness say they aren\u2019t bothered by the heat \u2014 compared to the alternatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs opposed to the winter I like the heat, it gets to me but not that much, I\u2019d rather be out here all day in the summer than all day in the cold,\u201d says Warren, who was laying outside Penn Station. When asked about water he says the \u201cChristians\u201d and coalitions will drop off food and water sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes he\u2019ll go into the station to stay cool as well, but the police may tell him to leave. \u201cIf you&#8217;re sitting down, they\u2019ll say get up, get up. They can\u2019t really decipher who\u2019s homeless and who\u2019s not though, everyone looks like they\u2019re waiting for a train. Sometimes they just walk past you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeffery, a man experiencing homelessness that was sitting inside the station, says, \u201cIf it\u2019s really hot, I get on the subway for the air conditioning.\u201d He\u2019ll take the 7 train usually and head to a park to find shade, preferably where there are water fountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside Port Authority sat Moussa, 39, who\u2019s been homeless for seven years. When asked how he stays cool he says, \u201cI usually just face the weather you know, you can\u2019t just come into every building.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s the sun, you know, it\u2019s not really going to kill you. Usually I just try and stay in one spot, in the shade, and try to get through the summer, you know.\u201d Similar to Warren, he also compared the summer heat to being preferable to the winter, saying he wishes he was in Florida where it was hot all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI happen to be in New York, so I need a jacket for the winter, and got to get some shade for the summer, and I\u2019ll be good,\u201d Moussa continued. He said that he\u2019ll often go to Penn Station for the night as the police sometimes let him stay, but he\u2019s never stayed in Port Authority overnight as they always tell them to leave. During the day he explains it\u2019s more fickle: \u201cSometimes they tell me to leave, sometimes they let me stay, they won\u2019t be that bad. They let us cool off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey\u2019re just handling their business, just got to respect it because we don\u2019t want to get arrested, and don\u2019t want no changes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/em\/about\/press-releases\/20210705_pr_nycem-advise-new-yorkers-to-beat-the-heat.page\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NYC Emergency Management and Health Department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a \u201ccode red\u201d is issued by the Department of Social Services during extreme heat, and, when active, \u201cshelter is available to anyone experiencing homelessness, where those experiencing heat-related discomfort are also able to access a designated cooling area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of publishing, there were 53 of these <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.nyc.gov\/cooling-center\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ccooling stations\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Manhattan available to the public, with 13 being for seniors only.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a heat advisory for New York City, those experiencing homelessness tell of how they handle the heat By Andrew Fraieli The National Weather Service issued a heat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,549],"tags":[773,776,623,569,145,772,218,224,775,774],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","tag-advisory","tag-cooling-stations","tag-emergency","tag-heat","tag-homeless","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-penn-station","tag-port-authority"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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