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Posted on 09/21/2026 4:46:40 PM PDT by Libloather
A new Skid Row encampment popped up across the street from NYU dorms — with vagrants bragging that living on the streets of the Big Apple is “much better” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The 30-foot-long shantytown at East Ninth Street and Third Avenue sits just outside Ukrainian Village Park, with a long blue tarp covering office chairs, luggage and bicycles on the sidewalk, in plain sight of both passersby and the college students who live across the street, The Post has learned.
“Some people are nice, some people think we invade their space,” Raymond, 45, who lives in the shelter, said Monday. “I was in a Bowery shelter and they stole my stuff. I’d rather be outside.”
He said roughing it on the sidewalk is “much better” since Mamdani took office.
“The past mayor had the police and they just came through and took stuff,” Raymond said. “Now they ask if we are ok and need help.”
Unsightly homeless encampments have dotted the city over the past year, including a blocks-long shantytown near the Intrepid Museum on Manhattan’s West Side that went unchecked until The Post blew the whistle — with the city finally moving in to try to clear it out.
A filthy encampment also turned a stretch of the East Side under the FDR Drive into a trash heap, while an outdoor flophouse has overtaken the sidewalk in trendy Greenwich Village.
Mamdani’s policy for dealing with the encampments handcuffs cops, and instead sends city outreach workers to try to sweet talk and offer services to the vagrants — who often just move down the street.
After seven days, police and sanitation workers are sent in to remove the rubbish.
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That’s what Socialists do;make poverty seem agreeable.
What happened to calling them bums? Deadbeats? Vagrants?
What happened to calling them bums? Deadbeats? Vagrants?
Heck of an endorsement. 😵💫
For backpackers, avoiding hotels on cheap vacations in outdoor camping friendly states and cities makes great sense.
Travel to NYC for a couple of weeks and stay away from the homeless, but still get the benefit of their street living laws.
RE: “I was in a Bowery shelter and they stole my stuff. I’d rather be outside.”
Always preferable to associate with a higher class group of vagrants.
If My Friends Could See Me Now
Song by Sammy Davis, Jr.
If they could see me now🎶
That little gang of mine
I’m eatin’ fancy chow and drinkin’ fancy wine🎶
I’d like those stumble bums
To see for a fact
The kind of top-drawer, first-rate chums I attract.
If my friends could see me now!🎶
If they could see me now🎶
My little dusty group
Traipsin’ round this million dollar chicken coop🎶
I’d hear those thrift shop cats say, “Brother get her!🎶
Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!”🎶
RE What happened to calling them bums? Deadbeats? Vagrants?
That pre-PC and woke stuff went out with our freedom of speech.
Now a person “experiencing houselessness” may have earlier been “involved in the criminal justice system” (convicted of a crime but was not in a prison——it was a “correctional center” and will sue if someone calls them a bum.
The Farmers’ Almanac is calling for a winter of “snow, sleet, and surprises for NYC ,LOL
I thought they were unhoused persons or housing-challenged?
bttt
Did you hear that America! Living and craping on the sidewalks is much better under a Muzzie Mayor, Madmammi.
Now NYC “Noo” Socialism creates “noo” homeless camps!
NYU students deserve better!
On the other hand, why not recruit NYC universities, churches, and students to help house and feed the homeless, and train them for jobs, as in Boston/Cambridge?
Perhaps a repeat of hurricane Sandy that hit NYC will clear the sidewalks this fall...
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy…. UNTIL WINTER.
Yay!!!! Now parents can feel even better about their children getting indoctrinated while being exposed to rampant drug use, public defecation and masturbation, trash and needles everywhere and the smells of vomit and urine wafting into those dormitories their little girls and boys while paying for a ffour-year undergraduate degree at New York University (NYU) typically costing between $287,000 and $380,000!!!!!
Happy Day, parents!!!! I hope your daughters don’t get raped!!!!!!!
Maybe I’m behind the times.
It’s late September.
One hallmark of homeless people is the failure to plan one day ahead. There’s no consideration of the future. Shining reviews may not be as glowing in January.
“Snow, sleet and surprises “ should be fun.
Are there any Christmas songs about frozen bums?
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