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Elected Officials Press MTA on Who Failed to Mind Homeless Contract

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 8/16/19

Elected officials are blasting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for not disclosing who at the agency was responsible for monitoring a multi-million-dollar homeless-outreach contract it had with a non-profit that a state audit found actually ignored the homeless.

Last month, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released an audit that documented that staffers with the Bowery Residents Committee, which was under contract with the MTA to perform homeless outreach in places like Penn Station and Grand Central Station, were actually spending most of their time behind locked doors in their offices.

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