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Fourteen people died in New York over this past weekend amid an Arctic air chill that has sent low temperatures into single digits since mid-January, marking the longest deep freeze the city has seen in 65 years. The deaths come after Mayor Zohran Mamdani instructed the New York City Police Department and social workers not to break up homeless encampments and move those living in them into shelters.