Posted on 09/24/2022 10:26:39 AM PDT by karpov
New York City school kids are losing their minds over the zonked-out drug addicts and raving vagrants they encounter every day – and are flocking to therapists to find ways to cope with the stress, The Post has learned.
In neighborhoods such as Hell’s Kitchen “a lot” of kids are now in therapy, according to mom Katie Hamill, 43, whose 7-year-old daughter is being treated for anxiety.
“My daughter has seen everything from fornication, masturbation, defecation, urination, you name it, she has seen it. … consistently and constantly. She is in this constant state of panic,” said Hamill, who works in real estate.
The little girl gets upset when she sees “the dying people” — the junkies who look dead whom she thinks no one is helping, the mom said. And she sees far too much vile behavior from adults, including one addict trying to rip out his hair after getting high at a West 42nd Street playground.
“My kid asks me to move,” Hamill said. “We have considered leaving the city. It’s hard.”
The city funneled thousands of homeless people to Hell’s Kitchen to living in the area’s hotels after the pandemic started. The move led to high-profile crimes including the brutal March 2021 beating of a Filipino-American woman walking to church allegedly at the hands of convicted killer Brandon Elliot, 38, who was living at a nearby hotel.
In late August, police charged Nickolas O’Keefe, 33, a shelter resident, with two unprovoked stabbing attacks including one targeting an ER nurse who was knifed in the back.
Exacerbating the qualify-of-life decline is state bail reform, which has caused the release of scores of dangerous accused criminals, as well as the decriminalization of drug paraphernalia which prompted the NYPD to stop detaining junkies shooting up in public.
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Who did you vote for, Katie?
She has no plans to move, so we know the answer to your question.
sue the city! conservatives need to start suing liberals over everything!
The problems of everyday life in some cities, cause people to move away. If she insists on staying in Hell’s Kitchen, she exposes herself and children to that environment.
Is there gentrification happening in Hell’s Kitchen? If so I wonder if the subject of this article is one of the pioneers trying to rehab the neighborhood??
The governor wants to banish Republicans to Florida. Therefore more of the same, except they will start flinging their poo around like chimpanzees.
This is supposed to happen, it’s why we have Democrats.
I'm at a loss to see what has been "reformed" in populating the streets with criminals but possibly some academic who lives in a comfortable and safe enclave can explain it to me.
to the list of acts she should add “and that’s just in school”
Same is often said about Hunter's laptop.
If she can make it there, she can make it anywhere.
Gosh. NYC has so gone down the drain.
EXACTLY!!! You beat me to it- the parents of these kids are the ones who elected these head up the butt liberal politicians that put NY sh!tty in its present situation.
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.
It's about a mile away from Hudson Yards which is some of the most expensive real estate in NYC. It's where the Edge observation deck is located.
“Is there gentrification happening in Hell’s Kitchen?”
Not sure if you are being sarcastic. Hell’s Kitchen was already pretty well gentrified, as shown by the Real Estate Pro living there with her child.
But of course all that progress is quickly being undone by the recent move the by City and State governments.
It’ll be Hell’s Kitchen for real again soon enough.
Blessing in disguise? Perhaps a new crop of young conservative could emerge?
Perhaps the worst part of this story is that a generation of NYC kids is being taught that therapy is the solution to the world’s problems.
"Bitch, please!"
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