Overview

• City officials said PATH teams made more than 20,100 contacts in the subway over the past year and delivered shelter, meals, or medical help more than 6,100 times.
• Since launch, nearly 1,900 people were connected to shelters, about 2,100 were removed for quality-of-life violations, and teams conducted over 13,000 train inspections while operating overnight across Manhattan.
• Adams reported a 17% year-over-year decline in transit crime for September and credited PATH and related safety measures for the improvement.
• The mayor promoted his Compassionate Interventions Act proposal to permit first responders to initiate involuntary hospitalizations for severe substance use, a plan criticized by the Legal Aid Society and NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman as coercive.
• The announcement ended with a tense exchange as Adams rejected coverage of a former aide’s memoir and accused a reporter of misrepresenting a passage he said does not appear in the book.