Posted on 06/17/2024 6:57:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A stretch of Midtown Manhattan has become a “strip of despair,” where smacked-out addicts shoot up, light up and conk out at the feet of commuters and tourists, locals say.
“I see a lot of things around here,” one shop owner told The Post of the so-called Eighth Avenue corridor near Penn Station, where there is a cluster of addiction clinics and homeless shelters. “Fights, drugs — oh my God — bad things.
“I don’t know if they have knives or guns,” she said, explaining how people who appear to be both extremely high and severely disturbed regularly barge into her shop near the Port Authority Bus Terminal demanding money and harassing tourists.
The corridor, which stretches for about 10 blocks from the Port Authority to Penn Station, serves as a gateway to New York City for hundreds of thousands of commuters and visitors to the Big Apple each day.
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The Left side is Left.
How much of this information, these images actually leak out into the general population...not much I’m guessing.
Someone (politicians) sooner rather than later will.say “we have to throw money at this!!!”
There was a rather shocking article in Smartnews from inews of the UK about extreme depravity in Stratford in east London.
The Paradise of Democratic NYC utopia on display.
Go after the dealers and a lot of the trouble will go away. Are the big cities even doing that?
https://www.thoughtco.com/broken-windows-theory-4685946
Broken Windows Theory Definition
In the field of criminology, the broken windows theory holds that lingering visible evidence of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil unrest in densely populated urban areas suggests a lack of active local law enforcement and encourages people to commit further, even more serious crimes.
Kelling based his theory on the results of an experiment conducted by Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo in 1969. In his experiment, Zimbardo parked an apparently disabled and abandoned car in a low-income area of the Bronx, New York City, and a similar car in an affluent Palo Alto, California neighborhood. Within 24 hours, everything of value had been stolen from the car in the Bronx. Within a few days, vandals had smashed the car’s windows and ripped out the upholstery. At the same time, the car abandoned in Palo Alto remained untouched for over a week, until Zimbardo himself smashed it with a sledgehammer. Soon, other people Zimbardo described as mostly well dressed, “clean-cut” Caucasians joined in the vandalism. Zimbardo concluded that in high-crime areas like the Bronx, where such abandoned property is commonplace, vandalism and theft occur far faster as the community takes such acts for granted. However, similar crimes can occur in any community when the people’s mutual regard for proper civil behavior is lowered by actions that suggest a general lack of concern.
Kelling concluded that by selectively targeting minor crimes like vandalism, public intoxication, and loitering, police can establish an atmosphere of civil order and lawfulness, thus helping to prevent more serious crimes.
I’m hoping that some big politician tells the city to “Drop dead!”
The 8th Avenue Corridor has always been sketchy since at least the 1970s.
I visited NYC in 2002, about a year after 9/11, and the place was clean, safe, and very nice.
I was apprehensive since I only knew NYC from stories as a crime-ridden hell-hole before Mayor Rudy. But I was amazed how Times Square was just like a shopping mall and had all the same stores like a typical shopping mall. No X rated stores, no beggars, no passed-out junkies, and no trash on the sidewalks.
Now apparently all of that hard work has been undone, and I’d never step foot in NYC today.
They could make this a tourist attraction- get an armored vehicle and take people on a tour of actual ghetto
Show them what decades of democrat control have dome
Yeah, that must be it. Meanwhile, keep voting for leftists and DEI morons to run things.
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With the tourists at our feet
Better not lay a hand on one of those skels or you’ll find yourself arrested.
I recently read about such a tour in San Francisco - showing all the closed-down businesses and once-bustling downtown area, that is now nearly empty except for mentally-ill and drug-addled homeless lying in the streets.
I’d warn anyone wanting to go on a tour of those areas to wear a mask, the smell is horrendous. I’d also mention that this is all due to San Francisco’s voting habits.
I was recently in New York City - the last time I was there was 2010. It has absolutely deteriorated since then, even in the so-called nice areas, very run down, lots of graffiti, homeless, suspicious types loitering on the streets and in the subways.
Really sad to see. Ditto for the once-grand city of San Francisco.
surprised? no not really, get the view on it, julia louis dreyfus, robert de niro
That area was run down since at least the 1970s. And it got worse when Giuliani cleaned up Times Square (so the bums move one over one avenue).
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