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Governor Cuomo And Mayor De Blasio Agree: Subway Homeless Must Go
Gothamist ^ | 4/28/20 | Stephen Nessen

Posted on 04/28/2020 7:10:03 PM PDT by Libloather

Thousands of homeless New Yorkers have continued to seek shelter in the city’s subways, avoiding an overwhelmed and crowded shelter system that poses its own dangers during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the presence of the homeless in the subways, but they offered little in the way of solutions to the problem.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for the MTA to close ten subway stations so NYPD and homeless outreach workers can help get the homeless into shelters, and so the MTA can clean the stations thoroughly.

“We'll devote the police resources, we'll devote the outreach workers, we'll do whatever it takes, but we need the MTA to agree to this plan,” de Blasio said Tuesday.

The MTA has vaguely said it agrees with the mayor’s goals, but won’t commit to closing terminals between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. as de Blasio suggested. The agency has said it already cleans stations everyday, and all trains every 72 hours.

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“That is disgusting, what is happening on those subway cars,” Cuomo said. “It’s disrespectful to the essential workers who need to ride the subway system.”

Cuomo offered no ideas or solutions. “We have to do better than that, and we will,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: cuomo; deblasio; homeless; newyork; subway
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To: Libloather

Play some pipe organ fugues by J.S. Bach (such as Dorian) or my favorite minimalist, Phillip Glass (Koyanistkatsi). Of course, those pieces may also scare the regular customers away too. That, or put them into a deep coma of tranquility.


21 posted on 04/28/2020 8:04:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Libloather

Where do all the illegals stay?


22 posted on 04/28/2020 8:17:03 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: All

Easy solution;

Commieo and De Blowsio should just expropriate all the hotels and put the homeless in them.


23 posted on 04/28/2020 8:25:17 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: mass55th
Typical libs.

Almost more than Trump does, this virus is daily revealing them for who they are, and have always been under the cover of the mainstream media.

Reminds me of the other day when I was conversing with other San Francisco Giants fans on a Facebook Giants group. The San Franciscans (I'm not one) were arguing that parks and beaches should remain closed in the interest of health.

Dumbfounded, I posted, "Wait a minute. How can you talk about health when you allow people to crap on your streets?"

Crickets.

24 posted on 04/28/2020 8:27:47 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool
"Crickets."

That's a typical response from liberals, because they can't argue facts. All they can do is continually repeat the crap they're fed by the fake news, and call people names. I don't do Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. The only places I post comments are here on FR, and a few of the other news sites like Fox,and Brietbart.

25 posted on 04/28/2020 8:39:59 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Libloather

Thanks to these 2 assholes and their stance on crime, the homeless have no real choice. Harassed by gangs or ride the subways. ACLU will be i. The way on this one!


26 posted on 04/28/2020 8:45:23 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Potato salad!!


27 posted on 04/28/2020 8:52:15 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Libloather

Now they finally want to fix the homeless problem? They’re a little late, don’t you think?


28 posted on 04/28/2020 8:59:56 PM PDT by Lucky2 (And Epstein didn't kill himself...)
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To: Kenny Bania; Gamecock; Larry Lucido

[Potato salad!!]

The Government!

At least give them muffin stumps.


29 posted on 04/28/2020 9:15:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mass55th

Typical libs. They wait until a situation gets out of control before they blame it on Republicans.

There....fixed it.


30 posted on 04/28/2020 9:22:32 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: jdsteel

LOL!! Thanks, that’s much better.


31 posted on 04/28/2020 9:23:51 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: jdsteel

I’m surprised they haven’t found some “recovering” COVID folks to just go walking among the homeless ....sorta like they did with the nursing homes to kill off all the older folks.


32 posted on 04/28/2020 9:24:08 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: The Pack Knight

At least they clean the subway cars every 72 hours according to the article in the stations every 24. Seems like now they could’ve found a way to clean The trains fully at least daily if not more often, especially since they have much lower ridership now. Since they are running fewer trains from the reports I’ve read it seems like they could rotate them out every certain number of hours for freshly clean ones, sure I would take some logistics planning but you would think someone in New York City would be smart enough to figure it out.


33 posted on 04/28/2020 9:24:14 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Libloather

They need to concentrate Andrew.
What do you think? …camps for that?


34 posted on 04/28/2020 10:53:38 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

OMG they are just NOW deciding this??


35 posted on 04/28/2020 10:57:06 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Libloather

New tweets from De Blasio threaten to round up Jews.

36 posted on 04/28/2020 11:52:00 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Libloather

They will take a page for gov nuwsome they will commandeer hotels under the pandemic crisis and fill them up. watch


37 posted on 04/29/2020 4:27:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: MinorityRepublican

I believe NYC’s antibody survey tests put them at 25%. Probably close to Sweden’s, but with the current lockdown it should be spreading more slowly, at least for now.


38 posted on 04/29/2020 4:35:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Has he mentioned Islam or mosques once?

But yeah, there has been decidely Hasidic flouting of social distancing for sure.


39 posted on 04/29/2020 4:36:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

How about the mosques on Friday night?


40 posted on 04/29/2020 10:59:10 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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