RIGHT SPEAK: Mumbling Homeless Woman Left to Spend Bone-Chilling Night On NYC Sidewalk — as City Workers Say Their ‘hands are tied’; Critics Push Mamdani, NYC to Do More to Force Homeless Into Shelters After 10 Die in Deep Freeze

Mumbling homeless woman left to spend bone-chilling night on NYC sidewalk — as city workers say their ‘hands are tied’:

A mumbling homeless woman was left out in deadly near-zero temperatures on a Manhattan sidewalk overnight — with first responders telling The Post they couldn’t help her under city guidelines.

The unidentified woman was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, slippers and two blankets as she clipped her nails, put lotion on her hands and talked to herself while hunkered down on East 34th Street across from NYU Langone Hospital as temperatures neared 0 degrees early Sunday.

She refused repeated offers for help from EMS workers and cops — who explained to The Post they had to leave the shivering vagrant in the extremely dangerous bone-chilling weather because she could answer basic questions — a factor that helps meet the threshold of Dem Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial homeless policies.

“She knew the year, 2026,” a firefighter told The Post. “She knew where she was: New York, Manhattan. She knew who the president is. Since she has mental capacity, there is nothing we can do. We can’t force her to go inside. We can’t kidnap her.

“Some people can survive,” he acknowledged of the situation. “Some don’t.”

An EMS worker at the scene added, “I don’t want to leave her out here.

“My hands are tied.”

The woman was first spotted on East 34th Street by The Post around 9:30 p.m. Saturday and remained there at least till 3 a.m. Sunday — when she took out a broom and began sweeping the sidewalk as the mercury hovered at 3 degrees.

She was still on the street Sunday afternoon.

Mamdani has come under fire for refusing to clear Big Apple homeless encampments and forcibly remove vagrants during the ongoing deadly cold snap, which has killed at least 17 people so far.

On Sunday, temperatures in the five boroughs were colder than in Antarctica, with the first Extreme Cold Warning in 22 years issued for millions in the New York metro area, officials said.

“With freezing temperatures expected again this weekend, I am writing to ask: What measures will be in place to ensure every New Yorker is in a warm place?” Democratic City Councilman Oswald Feliz of The Bronx wrote in a recent letter to City Hall. --->READ MORE HERE

Critics push Mamdani, NYC to do more to force homeless into shelters after 10 die in deep freeze:

At least six out of 10 New Yorkers found dead outdoors during the city’s Arctic deep freeze were homeless, Mayor Zohran Mamdani revealed Wednesday — as critics called on him to “step up” and take action.

Some advocates and local pols said the city needed to do more to force homeless individuals into shelters — though Mamdani has called that a “last resort” and ordered his administration to stop clearing tent encampments in the five boroughs.

“I don’t care what your ideology is,” former city Comptroller Scott Stringer argued. “When it’s 7 degrees, you get everyone in a safe place.”

The twice-mayoral candidate said there should be more alarm over the grim body count — as one homeless advocate said he “couldn’t remember” the last time so many people succumbed to the cold of the Big Apple.

“If there were 10 shooting deaths there would be a mass mobilization,” Stringer told The Post.

Coalition For The Homeless executive director Dave Giffen said that the death toll was nearly unprecedented.

“I’ve lived in New York City all my life and I can’t remember a time when so many people have died from a winter storm in such a short period of time, it’s absolutely tragic,” Giffen said Wednesday.

Past city leaders argued authorities should be showing tough love to the homeless — and not giving them a choice but to come inside.

Ex-FDNY Commissioner Tom Van Essen said he would have directed firefighters and EMS workers to pick up homeless people and take them to a shelter during these unbearable conditions “whether they like it or not.”

He blamed state lawmakers for refusing to make it easier to haul people off the streets for their own good.

“We have many mentally ill people who are incarcerated at Rikers,” Van Essen told The Post. “But we allow other mentally ill people to freeze to death?”