In the winter time, the city allows the homeless population to sleep inside the station with heavy police oversight (as noted). Before the early commuting hours theyre all dispersed out and they tend to hang around a 3-4 block area radius of the station until the cold evening temperatures come around again. I understand it’s VERY jarring to encounter this as you arrive into the station, been there myself. It’s not a solution to the problem at hand of course; but it’s a humane gesture - having these people freeze to death outside would just strain our health services and emergency services. To some degree, this is the world we live in unfortunately and I don’t expect the number of homeless people in the tri-state to be going down anytime soon…

They need to open the sidewalks around shaq tower soon, its been 2 years of absolute mayhem crossing 21 especially with the Gateway Center pedestrian tunnel closed. Its so unsafe in that intersection!!