Posted on 04/29/2023 11:29:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Upper Manhattan subway station is a needle graveyard, with the tracks littered with hundreds of used syringes tossed by junkies after they shoot up on the platforms, straphangers say.
“My husband doesn’t let me go out by myself [to the station] at night, he’s horrified,” said chef Laura Licona, 49, of the cavernous 1 Line transit hub at West 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. “The drug use has been a problem and compounded big time.”
The Post recently witnessed a half-dozen junkies injecting themselves there, just a few yards away from parents and elementary school children. […]
The station’s drug crisis “exploded” in the wake of the pandemic, along with the opening of a nearby OnPoint overdose prevention center in late 2021, an MTA cleaner said.
At the “safe injection” site, addicts can get high under medical supervision and are given clean paraphernalia to inject or snort their drug of choice, either on-site or elsewhere. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Actual conservatives want to effectively deal with problems
Socialists enable the problems, and attack those who want to effectively deal with problems
NYC is a royal Sh*t show.
Get ‘em out on the dirty boulevard
Going out to the dirty boulevard
They’re going down on the dirty boulevard
Going out
-Lou Reed
Remember—mass transit is good.
Cars are bad.
This message is brought to you by your friendly elitist plutocrat.
TPTB have been working for +100 years to take down the western world. They have used racial and gender wedge issues to do incredible damage, as well as sexual perversions of all stripes, at the same time criminalizing those opposing this junk.
The IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) was originally a private company. Thanks to the city government forcing them and rival BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) to hold their fares down to 5¢ literally for decades, as well as “competing” against them with the cynically-named “Independent Subway” (IND), they were bankrupted after WWII with the city achieving their goal of taking them over.
The decline and fall of a once-great city.
Thank goodness my “living in NYC” was brief and happened a long time ago.
Me too. I left Queens when 9 years old in 1954. But NYC was an entirely different place as I recall. My Dad told me NYC went to shxx when the Dodgers left Brooklyn.
whoa Hunter slow down!
I honestly CAN NOT believe how STUPID the voting N.H. public school is OR they are OR they are not that stupid and our election fraud is out of control!! People HAVE TO BE SICK of living this way!!!
Problem? That’s nothing send out one of your intrepid indoctrinators to the west coast cities, doesn’t matter where actually, San Diego-Bellingham choose anywhere up the I-5 corridor and venture out into the cities, transit systems or urban places that used to be called parks and you’ll see 10-100% more drug vagrants, guaranteed.
Upper Manhattan. {sigh of relief} At least not my old neighborhood. Not that I’d ever go back.
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I thought Upper Manhattan was where the riche people lived.
Same thing happened, exactly, to the Black Ball Ferry system, not the Mosquito Fleet, when Washington State started going all socialist in 1951. The state refused to a rate increase, forcing the owner to sell the majority cross Puget Sound routes, to the state of Washington and was “allowed” to negotiate and maintain several international routes.
The Black Ball Ferry System still serve Canada and several Soviet of Washington port cities and is celebrating its 205th year of ferry business.
The reverse is true. The Dodgers left because Brooklyn had gone to shxx.
Addiction is a terrible thing
It’s criminal trespass but New York City bureaucrats will not enforce it because they don’t have enough assistant prosecutors nor public defenders. They can’t say that publicly without worsening the bond rating.
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