Medium for Homeless People

I’ve always liked train stations. It gathers all kinds of people from all kinds of place, with different lives. Each person lives a different story and they use the train stations to reach another destination in their lives.

This weekend, as one of those people in the New York Penn Station, I was scared for the first time. Arriving to New York very late wasn’t something I preferred, but I had nothing else to do.

By the time I arrived, I realized another fact of train stations for the first time. They were the homes of people who are in need. They gathered all homeless people under a roof and saved them from cold. While I was walking down in the station, it appeared to me that the homeless people there even became friends. It looked like they were spending every night there, so they formed friendships. While one group was sharing a blanket, another couple in the opposite corner was arguing something.

It was really interesting to me to see how train stations gathered people. When I arrived home, I typed homeless people in Penn Station in Google, to see if people recognized that there were hundreds of lives there. The results showed me that there were foundations for homeless people which were showing consideration to the ones in the Penn Station. They placed some groups of homeless people there in some several homes for people without houses. It was the best proof of how a location attracts attention and helped to solve a social problem. I’m sure that if those people were sleeping on the streets, they wouldn’t take that much attention as the ones did in Penn Station since streets are usual places for homeless people.  For this reason, Penn Station acts as a medium.

Food, restaurants, ads were common media tools for me, but I’ve never thought of train stations. It looks like Penn station not just helps people who have money to travel to reach wherever they want, but also enables the homeless people reach their new homes.