NYC answer to multiple stabbings/shootings: Install Panic buttons in 500 NYC bodegas

Panic buttons will soon be installed at about 500 bodegas around New York City, offering workers a long-sought safety tool.

On Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams announced $1.6 million will be set aside for Silentshield technology, which is the name of the panic buttons that will be deployed.

United Bodegas of America spokesman Fernando Mateo is elated the life-saving technology he has long championed is coming.

"The money is now being allocated, we will ask the mayor to try and find it from discretionary funds, so that we can start tomorrow. There's no reason we can't start tomorrow," Mateo says.