Growing number of homeless people caught up in NYC crackdown on sleeping on subways

NPR | By Samantha Max

Published May 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM EDT

A growing number of homeless New Yorkers are finding themselves in court after police caught them taking up more than one seat on public transit or lying on the floor of a station in recent months.

Samantha Max

Samantha Max covers criminal justice for WPLN and joins the newroom through the Report for America program. This is her second year with Report for America: She spent her first year in Macon, Ga., covering health and inequity for The Telegraph and macon.com.

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