We have a friend in NYC that is asking about the Houston Chinatown. She wants to move.
Don’t mind the maggots.
If that be treason, make the most of it...Eric!
Great headline. But truly sad story. Most of us remember when NYC was a delightful place to visit and to even walk around town at night.
Without the wheels the city is not an asylum?
In gridlocked traffic, wild eyed man approaches your car window.
On the way to your car in the parking garage or on street space at night, three teens watch you and start to approach.
Waiting for a bus a man loudly talks nonstop about his theory of the secret rulers behind everything.
Unhinged NYC man busted after random wooden plank....
New York Post
https://nypost.com › 2023/07/19 › unhinged-nyc-man...
5 days ago — An unhinged man went on a random, 10-minute whacking spree with a wooden plank in lower Manhattan Wednesday morning — smashing four victims ...
>> “I’ve ridden the subways for 50 years. I’ve never seen so many deranged individuals — schizophrenic, otherwise demented and/or drugged to the point of unpredictable potential violence.”
Both the streets and subways have taken a serious downturn replete with mentally ill people and degenerates. Although the MSM frames the conditions as a matter of racism, both the good and bad are not racially bound. The issues cut across the color spectrum.
If everyone had a pistol, this crap would stop.
Can someone play “Crazy Train”?
Mayor Eric Adams fault.
[He’s a Commie Jim...]
NYC now has RCV for a reason...
If he hasn’t ridden the subways in 15 years, why is he writing about it? I was just there for 10 days. Rode the suways a lot, east and westside of Manhattan, and Queens. Much better than two years ago. More people, that’s for sure. Some down-and-outers and riffraff, but more so on the streets.
However, the Ken Kesey book (and later movie) "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" pretty much destroyed the mental hospital system in America. Their image became one of stern Nurse Ratchets force-feeding pills to patients to keep them calm and compliant.
Now these people are out on the streets. Still taking drugs but not so calm and compliant anymore.
The mental instituation industry was a large one. My hometown of Newtown, CT still has a large section of abandoned brick buildings that attest to that.
Put them all on a dump scow and tow them out to the dump grounds and dump, return for next load.
It’s ridiculous that the finger pointing game continues. The City just says the subway is governed by the State so there’s nothing we can do. Meanwhile the people who actually need to get back and forth to work suffer.
Same problem on a smaller scale in Chicago. It’s not just the homeless and mentally ill though. They’ve always been using the trains as a second home. The real change, here at least, is that during COVID, when the schools closed, all the “teens” started hanging out on the subway all day long, drinking, smoking, smoking weed, etc. It became a moving party (for them) and a much more dangerous place for everyone else.
Some of them left when the schools re-opened but I’d estimate about 1/4 of them didn’t. I’ve even seen drug dealers now openly walking up and down the train cars advertising that they have cocaine for sale. Never seen that before in my life.