Yep...NYC is sooo much better...
Posted on 01/04/2024 7:44:07 AM PST by lowbridge
Mayor Eric Adams took a moment to brag Wednesday — that New York City isn’t as bad as Los Angeles.
“This is another city in America,” Hizzoner proclaimed to a room full of reporters Wednesday afternoon, holding up a picture of a packed homeless encampment in LA’s infamous Skid Row neighborhood.
“This is what I saw when I drove around the city January 1st, 2022. This is an example of another city in America.”
Adams flashed the tragic scene while touting the Big Apple’s year-end crime stats, which show overall crime across Gotham dropped slightly in 2023 — down 0.3% — compared to the year prior.
“This is when you threw up your hands. Fires burning on the street, children out here. There are no toilets!
“Go look at other cities and look at what we inherited when I put in place our homeless encampment task force. You don’t see this in New York,” he boasted.
“And there are those who say I’m harsh because I don’t allow this to exist. That’s what I’m fighting against. Do you want this in front of your house? You want your children to see this? Is this what you want your children to see? Not while I’m mayor. It’s not going to happen.”
Crime rates in the Big Apple are, however, up more than 31% overall compared to 2019, according to the NYPD data.
Adams did not explicitly say where the homeless encampment was in the press conference but The Post tracked down the image and found it was taken on the streets of Skid Row in February 2023.
It shows a 56-year-old man heating a doughnut over a fire he ignited on the sidewalk of the downtown LA neighborhood famous for its vagrancy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Not having Winter will do that to you.
Uh oh, gonna flare up the whole East Coast vs West Coast rivalry again.
Gangsta rappers, beware!
That’s like the mayor of Beirut telling vacationers that they should go there because Damascus sucks worse.
“Congratulations to ME. NYC isn’t a TOTAL Sh!thole like LA!”.
Mayor Adams
We don’t see it yet Mr Adams. But we will
Lets send Adams another 10 to 20 thousand immigrants. I’ll bet more than a few tents will start popping up in the Big (Rotten) Apple.
“Not having Winter will do that to you.”
LOL!!! Chicago has the same advantage.
Since the closing of the mental hospitals, dumping the inmates on the streets, and the removal of vagrancy laws the US has gone to trash.
Once FREE museums now have to charge a fee to keep the vagrants out and Libraries, once nice and clean in the 1960s now have bums lounging in them all day. One had to close because the bums brought in bedbugs.
He could show a picture of tin roof lean-tos in Port Au Prince, or favelas in Rio, or shacks and sewage in Lagos or chicken wire bunks in Hong Kong.
It’s all coming here. He wants it here. Just not in NYC.
The homeless are sleeping in the subways, and in Penn Station.
They would freeze to death if they slept outside.
(I was just there yesterday. The city looks like a dystopian movie set. Not one person I saw was wearing a suit, and it reeked of marijuana.)
Every city, suburb, and rural area will have skid rows because the plan is to send every person on the globe who wants to come here.
That's like saying genital warts are somewhat nicer than syphillis - both conditions result from irresponsibility of the management, but one manager had better luck than the other. :)
That’s the best he can do? — “we suck less than LA” ??
Yep...NYC is sooo much better...
Mayor Adams won’t proudly holds up photo of NYC hotels they make skid row look better.
Nice reminder of where we are. Thanks for posting.
When I saw people in LA taking dumps and humping each other in broad daylight back in the late 90s, I started formulating my escape.
SOMEONE SHOW ME & ALL OF US THE “TOILETS” ATTACHED TO THE ENDLESS CARAVANS OF INVADERS COMING OVER OUR BORDERS.
The more I see of this guy the more shallow and stupid he seems.
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