With NYC in Deep Freeze, Many Homeless People Seek Refuge in the Subways

Melvin Fields doesn’t have a place to call his own. But the 63-year-old does have the subway.

“You know what I’m saying, it’s safe from the cold, you know what I’m saying. It’s very cold out there now,” Fields said.

A deep freeze that’s sent Fields into the city’s transit system for shelter.

“I be in the streets sometime. And I go to work sometime, do little odd jobs and stuff like that. I stay on the train a couple of hours,” he said.