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HOOKER HELL (Bloomberg's New York...)
NY Post ^
| 7/10/06
| DOUGLAS MONTERO and PERRY CHIARAMONTE
Posted on 07/10/2006 3:48:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
Newcomers to Hell's Kitchen, who pay top dollar to live in the hot neighborhood, are having a devil of a time dealing with a resurgence in some of the area's longtime inhabitants - prostitutes.
The in-your-face, scantily clad night crawlers, who for years discreetly plied their wares from pimp-owned cars, are back to their pre-Giuliani days of streetwalking, traffic-stopping parades in front of flesh-hungry motorists, according to residents and community leaders.
The Post recently spotted about a dozen of the hard-working, high-heeled hookers strutting up and down West 47th and 48th streets between Ninth and 11th avenues - not far from cops posted at the Lincoln Tunnel to thwart potential terrorist attacks.
Several shocked newcomers to the area - including some young families dishing out up to $3,000 a month in rent - said realtors had assured them that the neighborhood was "up and coming."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; giuliani; hookers; jamaica; kerryvoters
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Bloomberg continues to let the city streets slip back into the pre-Giuliani mess. He's welcomed back the homeless, panhandlers and psychos into the subways who are now intimidating and attacking passengers as if Dinkins was mayor again. And now Bloomberg has invited the prostitutes back to the Hell's Kitchen streets. Longtime city residents are starting to talk about Bloomberg's neglect of street crime. This is just another example.
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posted on
07/10/2006 3:49:01 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
HOOKER HELLWhere the only johns are Barney Frank and Hillary?
To: jimbo123
"up and coming."
No comment.
To: Darkwolf377
I lived on this street when Dinkins was mayor and it was digusting. Most of the prostitutes were men dressed as women and I witnessed a shootout between two pimps. Giuliani cleaned up the street after he was elected, but Bloomberg has let things get bad again.
Police enforcement of street crime violations are non-existent these days and it must be under Bloomberg's direction. Just like the days when Dinkins instructed the police not to arrest street criminals.
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posted on
07/10/2006 3:57:03 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: Darkwolf377
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posted on
07/10/2006 3:58:32 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Darkwolf377
Better desrciption would be STD Hell.
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posted on
07/10/2006 3:58:43 AM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: jimbo123
"Bloomberg continues to let the city streets slip back into the pre-Giuliani mess. "
Yup.
Took a lot of hard work, and grit for Giuliani to clean up New York.
Would be a shame if Bloomberg let's things slip back to the hell they were before.
Time for Bloomberg to wake up and smell the coffee.
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posted on
07/10/2006 3:59:59 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: napscoordinator
No comment. Yeah. I initially had the same "no comment".
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:00:28 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Yes, I used this same joke on Flag Day. So sue me. It's America.)
To: jimbo123
The two fiercest libs I know in NYC are Giuliani supporters. One of them, after living there for 20 years, just moved out, and hated Dinkins and doesn't care for Bloomberg.
To: napscoordinator
Once you penetrate deep into the hard neighborhood, you find workers eager to please. But be warned once you hire them they are likely to lay down on the job.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:01:33 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: Jameison
Bloomberg is trying to argue that New York City can't fight street crime and Al Qaeda at the same time. So he's saying that we're going to have to live with the increase in street crime and subway crime.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:03:02 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
I do not defend bloomie but there are two realities at work here that make LE harder now in NYC than itwasunder Rudy...
1) The NYPD budget is now much heavier on WOT related issues and this leaves less $$ and fewer POs for quality of life policing.
2) Rudy's plan of zero tolerance led to thousands of arrests of criminals who had jumped bail, violated parole or were wanted on warrants for crimes more serious than the turnstile junmping that they were stopped for. This led to putting much of the criminal flotsam away.....but not forever. They are back, having served their time and the system can't send them up again until they commit another felony.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:04:26 AM PDT
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: jimbo123
"Bloomberg is trying to argue that New York City can't fight street crime and Al Qaeda at the same time."
He can very well try that argument.
But we are not buying it.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:04:54 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: jimbo123
I lived on 48th between 8th and Broadway during the Guliani years and it was a great place to live. To this day the only decent Cajun restaurant in the city of New york is on 48th and 9th. (The Delta Grill ...try the gator)
when Guliani was Mayor this neighborhood really seemed like it was on the upswing permanently. It was mostly families and young professionals, and but for the Friday and Saturday night crowds of Tourists, it was incredibly convenient to everything.
I had the only commute in the world that was further vertically than horizontally. I lived on the 30th floor, rode the elevator to the street, walked over to 49th and 6th, where I got on the elevator and went up to the 53rd floor.
I never even owned an umbrella.
Shame it's going back to the 'old days'.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:07:29 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: wtc911
"The NYPD budget is now much heavier on WOT related issues and this leaves less $$ and fewer POs for quality of life policing."
New York City has received huge amounts of money from the federal government for the WOT.
Even the recent "low" figure was still more than any other city in the country, by far.
We haven't even talked about the $20 Billion given to New York, not long after 9/11, vast sums of which were stolen and wasted.
I am just not buying this argument.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:08:51 AM PDT
by
Jameison
To: tcostell
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:09:32 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
We should just legalize prostitution and let them operate in a designated area like they do in Nevada.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:09:47 AM PDT
by
hodaka
To: Jameison; wtc911
On the subject of NYC and terror funding....
NY Squandered Billions in 9/11 Aid
The money'd've better spent on community policing than air conditioners and diversity training.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:13:01 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Jameison
There was a great article in New York magazine on the NYCP's WOT, the feds aren't even funding 1/2 of it.
To: mewzilla
Thanks for the link.
Pretty much tells it all.
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posted on
07/10/2006 4:16:35 AM PDT
by
Jameison
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