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New York City kids seeking therapy after unending exposure to vagrants and addicts
New York Post ^ | September 24, 2022 | Griffin Kelly, Matthew Sedacca and Melissa Klein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: getouttatown; itsanshole; leave; nyc; schiffhole
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1 posted on 09/24/2022 10:26:39 AM PDT by karpov
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according to mom Katie Hamill, 43, whose 7-year-old daughter is being treated for anxiety.

Who did you vote for, Katie?

2 posted on 09/24/2022 10:27:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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She has no plans to move, so we know the answer to your question.


3 posted on 09/24/2022 10:29:25 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: karpov

sue the city! conservatives need to start suing liberals over everything!


4 posted on 09/24/2022 10:31:41 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: karpov

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.


5 posted on 09/24/2022 10:38:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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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??


6 posted on 09/24/2022 10:39:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: karpov

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.


7 posted on 09/24/2022 10:39:39 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: karpov
Exacerbating the qualify-of-life decline is state bail reform...as well as the decriminalization of drug paraphernalia which prompted the NYPD to stop detaining junkies shooting up in public.

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.

8 posted on 09/24/2022 10:44:16 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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to the list of acts she should add “and that’s just in school”


9 posted on 09/24/2022 10:46:13 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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“My daughter has seen everything from fornication, masturbation, defecation, urination, you name it, she has seen it. … consistently and constantly."

Same is often said about Hunter's laptop.

10 posted on 09/24/2022 10:47:04 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: karpov

If she can make it there, she can make it anywhere.


11 posted on 09/24/2022 10:48:04 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Gosh. NYC has so gone down the drain.


12 posted on 09/24/2022 10:54:17 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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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.


13 posted on 09/24/2022 11:03:19 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: karpov

Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.


14 posted on 09/24/2022 11:04:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
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??

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.

15 posted on 09/24/2022 11:05:32 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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“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.


16 posted on 09/24/2022 11:06:18 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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Blessing in disguise? Perhaps a new crop of young conservative could emerge?


17 posted on 09/24/2022 11:07:12 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: karpov

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.


18 posted on 09/24/2022 11:07:51 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: cockroach_magoo
"Tissue?"


19 posted on 09/24/2022 11:08:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

"Bitch, please!"

20 posted on 09/24/2022 11:09:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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