Household of suspected subway shover says NYC failed her as Eric Adams admin insists it’s ‘proud’ of its psychological well being outreach

The household of the troubled girl accused of shoving two vacationers onto subway practice tracks this week accused the town of failing to get her assist — at the same time as officers in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration insisted Tuesday they’re “proud” of their psychological well being outreach work.

Clarence Butts, of Brooklyn, mentioned the town didn’t do sufficient for his stepdaughter Ebony — a 42-year-old with an extended historical past of psychological well being struggles now charged with randomly pushing two ladies from Mexico off the platform in a Decrease East Facet subway station.

“If they’d finished extra, this is able to have by no means occurred,” Clarence advised The Put up Tuesday from his Crown Heights dwelling.

“I’m sorry for what occurred, however they ain’t doing nothing for folks on the market that wants assist.”

Butts’ blunt evaluation got here shortly after the mayor and Metropolis Corridor officers painted a rosy portrait of their work coping with unbalanced New Yorkers, together with swarms of drugged-up weirdos taking on swaths of the West Facet.

The “SCOUT” groups — certainly one of a constellation of psychological well being groups engaged on outreach throughout the town — have helped 170 New Yorkers on the subways, mentioned Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom in response to The Put up’s query.

“I really am pleased with the groups which might be doing this psychological well being work,” she mentioned throughout the weekly Metropolis Corridor off-topic information convention.

However no matter work the groups are doing is seemingly falling in need of serving to some New Yorkers with psychological well being issues reminiscent of Butts, whose sister advised the New York Day by day Information was identified as schizophrenic.

“For like 20 years, I’ve been backwards and forwards making an attempt to get her assist,” Tueniesha Butts, 47, who lives in Maryland, advised the native paper about her sister, who she mentioned had additionally suffered from most cancers and associated surgical procedures.

“She’s been on remedy. I introduced her to Maryland making an attempt to deal with her. She’s identified as schizophrenic, bipolar, manic, and all of this and no person acts like they wished to assist me,” she mentioned.

“All I wished was to get any individual to assist me together with her, a house well being aide as a result of I work. Someone to take care of her as a result of I’ve children of my very own. I couldn’t get that.”

Town’s psychological well being disaster has additionally spilled out above floor, with Manhattan Councilman Eric Bottcher, in a latest letter begging Adams for support, deeming the scenario on the West Facet a “humanitarian disaster.”

Vacationers and staff within the “gateway” neighborhood aren’t solely greeted by the glittering sights of Occasions Sq. and Broadway, but in addition tableaus of human distress, he wrote.

Mentally unwell, overtly drug-using homeless folks brawled, dozed on concrete obstacles, washed their toes with soda, urinated topless whereas carrying a Burger King crown, puffed crack pipes and injected medication into their arms when The Put up visited the beleaguered space in latest weeks.

Bottcher argued that many social providers — together with B-HEARD, a pilot program by which psychological well being staff assist reply to 911 calls — have largely bypassed Manhattan’s West Facet.

The Put up spoke with staff and vacationers who recounted tales of vagrants taking on a Vacation Inn’s public plaza and littering it with drug needles, scaring off prospects and spitting at households.

Adams largely dodged The Put up’s questions Tuesday about Bottcher’s issues and his administration’s effectiveness serving to mentally unwell New Yorkers.

He as an alternative tried accountable the Metropolis Council for not too long ago passing a regulation that offers folks the proper to sleep outdoor in public areas, arguing it hampers efforts to filter out the homeless.

Hizzoner did vaguely trace that Midtown and the West Facet quickly would see a coordinated effort by NYPD and psychological well being staff, such the SCOUT program that centered on subways.

“We’re going to exit and cope with a few of these quality-of-life points,” he mentioned.