Posted on 07/10/2015 6:14:23 AM PDT by jimbo123
There’s a new homeless shelter in Alphabet City — Tompkins Square Park.
The East Village green space has become an encampment for the surging number of city vagrants, with many sleeping through the day amid dog walkers and moms with strollers.
“I really don’t enjoy the beauty of the park anymore because I’m too scared to walk through it,” said NYU student Christine Gal, 19, who lives nearby. “I would say it has doubled in the last six months.”
Gal added that she has been verbally harassed by “aggressive” bums and now avoids the park at night. A parks worker called the urban oasis “scary,” saying it’s riddled with bums who have drug problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Deblasio’s New York!
Too bad the reporter didn’t ask this Christine chick who she voted for ...
When i was a kid it was the same way back in the 60’s
I believe it was under Guiliani that Tompkins Square Park was cleaned out. Of course, the occupy types of that time went crazy, but Giuliani stuck to his guns and let the cops do their jobs. Those were the days...
Yep. That place used to be a disaster. Full circle. Thank you mr. Idiot Mayor.
I was mistaken. This happened in 1988, when Koch was still Mayor
Wow! I haven’t heard it referred to as Alphabet City in over a decade. Go East Young Man—Bushwick beckons!
Homeless and junkies in the East Village. Who’d a thunk it?
Seriously though, a city needs at least some open and cheap (and dangerous) neighborhoods.
Artists and thinkers thrive in that climate. You can connect practically every piece of modern philosophy, politics, music and art to one street in the village - St Marks Place.
The Central Park crowd is free to stay in their sanitized streets, 5-stars and homeowners associations! I’d rather enjoy a pint with a traveler in a decrepit speakeasy on St Marks any day...
I told you morons not to vote for Warren Wilhelm, but you didn’t listen.
Crime 'numbers' will go down ... Democrat mayors of hellholes put pressure on cops to keep crime numbers in the "lie - total bullsh*t" area. The FBI will support the lies because they're liberal elite liars too... Our country is becoming a hellhole..
“If a bum assaults a woman in a park and no police officer is there to take a report, does it make a crime statistic?”
True. But word, even if at the level of rumor and innuendo, will quickly get around.
It’ll be fun, when that happens, to see how the Proggie gentrifiers react to their housing prices imploding ...
If a tree falls in a forest...
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