CREDIT: AP Public officials and charity volunteers scrambled to bring thousands of homeless people in out of the storm Monday night in New York City, Boston, and smaller, harder-hit inland cities around New England. Snowfall fell short of professional predictions in New York, where a 1981 “right to shelter” law requires the city to provide all homeless people with a place to sleep indoors, but the storm still dropped more than enough snow to make life more dangerous for the homeless.