Posted on 08/04/2024 11:23:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Unstable, strung-out homeless weirdos have swarmed large parts of Manhattan’s West Side, littering streets with needles and menacing locals and tourists alike — and there’s no help in sight.
The invasion of homeless, mentally ill and drug-abusing people is a full-blown “humanitarian crisis” greeting millions of tourists and office workers who arrive in Midtown and its highly trafficked surrounding neighborhoods, wrote Councilman Eric Bottcher in a recent letter to the mayor asking for aid.
“Our neighborhoods need help right now,” he wrote. “The status quo cannot be allowed to continue.”
A dead-eyed junkie injected drugs into his hand in front of The Post near Eighth Avenue. Stephen Yang for the New York Post
West Side wackadoos — including one dead-eyed junkie wandering with a needle sticking out of his hand along 36th Street near bustling Penn Station — were out in force as The Post visited the neighborhoods over the past two weeks.
A bedraggled security guard, who only gave Fisher as his name, said he sees doped-up derelicts do drugs “all day and all night” in the public courtyard at the Midtown Holiday Inn hotel along Eighth Avenue’s infamous “strip of despair.”
“It’s crazy out here,” the battle-weary Midtown security guard, 50, said.
Homeless, mentally ill and drug-abusing people are a full-blown “humanitarian crisis” on the West Side below Central Park, said one pol. Stephen Yang for the New York Post
“They even have sex out here on the benches. They pee and defecate here.”
Entire swaths of the West Side, including near Washington Square Park, the West Fourth Street subway station in the West Village and the Garment District, are “particularly dire,” Bottcher wrote.
Stretched-thin NYPD precincts in the area are buried in endless calls about open drug sales and use, destroyed property, menacing acts of physical and verbal intimidation, shoplifting and...
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Do people actually go to Manhattan for vacations?
Times Square is the most visited “tourist attraction” in the US. 40 million per year apparently.
THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF:
YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR.
SAME APPLIES TO HARRIS
She sounds more Muslim every day.
yup
Long past time to reopen the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s.
I wonder if Lisa Douglas would want Times Square now?
One of the things I loved about that show is it was probably the only place on American television you could on rare occasions hear Hungarian spoken and I could understand what was being said.
Green Acres still holds up well.
Many times I can relate to Oliver Douglas.
I’d trade worlds with him.
👍
To keep them in.
send them uptown to the posh living quarters of the view, stern, chelsea handler and other stink a@@ liberals
Good.
New York lefties deserve the fallout from lefty policy and lefty NY voting traditions.
There are no mentally ill homeless shooting up where I live because we don’t vote for politicians that would tolerate such activity.
All a matter of perspective, I suppose.
The whole city stinks of garbage and weed
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