I think that every big city with an unhinged populace should pay people (like peer recovery people) to just walk the streets and talk to people and maybe give them tips of mental health resources.

I live in a much smaller place than New York (I mean, aren’t they all?) and I’m always talking to people on the street who need help, providing resources, phone numbers, locations. And that’s a smaller town! Imagine what a group of people could do in a big, crazy place.