Posted on 09/19/2026 2:51:45 PM PDT by grundle
A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight
Under new rules in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the NYPD is no longer authorized to clear the encampments. The city Department of Homeless Services is in charge of conducting the sweeps, but it hasn’t done so.
One vagrant went so far as to call the mayor “awesome” for allowing the unsanitary encampment to thrive and halting police raids that once cleared out the unsightly settlements.
“Most people would agree that leaving people on the street indefinitely isn’t compassion, it’s neglect,” said Steve Fulop, CEO for the nonprofit Partnership for the City of New York. “We’ve seen in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco that letting encampments grow unchecked fails the homeless and erodes quality of life for everyone else.
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Call in the scoops.
Send in the social(ist) workers!
competing with Seattle for stupidest mayors of America
There are these large trucks/machines that have the dubious assignment of sucking all of the shi-ite out of port-a-potties.
Would love to steal one of those trucks, then spray the encampment.
If New York officials do step in, it will only be to hand out voter registration cards.
Vote early!
Vote often!
While you’re at it, why not call on Al Capone to step in and do something about all the murders, gambling, and bootlegging going on in Chicago
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12 blocks. Unleashed one of my song parodies.
Update of 12 Gates to the City (Carly Simon, Mississippi Children’s Choir, others).
Twelve blocks in the city.🎶
Walk right in, you’re welcome to the city🎶
Step right up welcome to the city.
Sign up for entitlements, welcome to the city.
The rich and the poor, welcome to the city🎶
Young and the old ,welcome to the city
Weak and the strong, welcome to the city
Illegal child molesters welcome to the city.
The sidewalk is your bathroom. Wipe on the Constitution.🎶
Make shoppers and schoolkids walk around you.
Everyone but a Trumper, welcome to the city.🎶
There are twelve homeless blocks to the city Hallelujah.🎶
Man asking at a restaurant for his car keys he had earlier handed to the valet parking guy.
Waiter: "Sir, we don't have valet parking here."
Helps Mamdani feel at home just like Kampala, Uganda
You know, citizens, it is t the officials problem, rather, it’s YOURS. They’re fine. They get paid more than you, have better neighborhoods than you and have no worries about crime or whether tbey can get decent health care.
Fix the problem yourselves and if the officials resent that, set them straight.
They got an SR 70 Blackbird on her deck.
Drug use is off the charts. And marijuana is most Definitely a gateway drug. Especially when it’s loaded up with synthetic THC, 1000X more potent than natural THC.
Fries brains. Instant psychosis with a high chance of being permanent. The lucky ones are semi-coherent and schizophrenic.
It is contagious because they will move to your area and corrupt it too.
Call in Snake Pliskin.
+1
Socialism is a scam.
Stop the work. Keep collecting the tax.
When you have a sewer mayor, you get a sewer city. Welcome to the real world, oh dumbASS Democrat voters. Inhale, smell the stench. Enjoy, because there’s going to be a hell of a lot more stink while you’re run by commie muzzies. (Oh, better learn to wipe your Obamaholes with your left hand.)
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