According to the City’s homeless count earlier this year, more than 4,000 New Yorkers sleep on the streets each night.

It’s the City’s Department of Homeless Services’ job to connect with each one of them. They work rain or shine in every corner of the five boroughs.

In this NY1 exclusive, Photojournalist Chelsea Katz introduces us to one city homeless outreach worker who is intimately familiar with the struggles these unhoused people are facing.