It was a tense, hours-long standoff between New Yorkers who had been living on East 9th Street against the NYPD and the Sanitation Department.
City Hall says only four people were living on the sidewalk by their count, but not one accepted the city's offer to stay in a shelter.
"The initiative continues to progress and to take people who are experiencing homelessness, to move them off the streets and out of these unsafe conditions and to get them into a more stable situation and connect them with services that many of them need," NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said.
"The city should use all this energy and all of this money to get people into apartments," said Helen Strom, of the Safety Net Project.
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