The sweeps continue.
Mayor Eric Adams’ mandated removal of homeless encampments continued Monday as Chinatown’s unhoused scrambled to salvage their belongings before it was tossed into the trash pile.
Undomiciled residents of 38 Eldridge Street were left in despair on April 11 while they desperately attempted to choose what to carry with them and what to leave behind. One female member of the encampment rested her head on a metal bar in a solemn act of defeat. For many, life on the streets has now become a revolving door of removals and displacements.
