Adams is completely bonkers if he thinks New Yorkers are going to take his plans lying down.
I have many relatives in Rockland County. It has been a magnet for NYPD and FDNY people, active and retired, for fifty years. They will not let Adams destroy their towns.
Likewise with the neighborhoods surrounding Prospect Park...Park Slope, Kensington, and Windsor Terrace. I know these areas well.
Both longterm residents, and the newcomers from other states and countries (BTW, who are paying 1 to 2 million dollars for the old brownstones) are going to fight Adams tooth and nail.
You are about to see the biggest NIMBY pushback ever, in the history of Brooklyn!
I had the misfortune of marrying a woman who later expressed schizophrenia - which the family covered up completely. I was only married to her for 3 years, the 2nd half of which was like a trip through hell. Paranoid schizophrenics can turn on a dime and the changes in their personality and outward behavior are hard to believe unless you have seen this illness expressed in someone you are close to. And the sudden shifts to violence and delusional paranoid fantasies are stunning - even reflecting on this 40 years after the fact. In retrospect I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of that marriage alive.
The really shocking thing is to realize how hard it is to treat these folks. They do not stay on their medication; they form paranoid theories that their doctors are trying to kill them, and they reject treatment. You would need several full-time positions to effectively manage someone like the guy who was choked out (of existence) on the subway. It’s a very difficult problem with no easy solutions.
I hope so.
Please tell me what a brownstone is. Where are they found? I presume a brownstone is some type of house.
I would love to do another walking tour of Manhattan before I get to old, if things settle down a bit.