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Some random guy was stabbed in the neck multiple times outside Port Authority yesterday in broad daylight IN FRONT OF COPS by a crazy lunatic who should have been kept in jail for previous assaults. This stuff just didn't happen years ago. Now random people are being violently assaulted in tourist areas on a regular basis.
As a tourist, I was recently at Port Authority and also Penn Station and can confirm that both are full of seemingly psychotic homeless people, some of whom are doubtless armed and dangerous.
As a tourist, I was recently at Port Authority and also Penn Station and can confirm that both are full of seemingly psychotic homeless people, some of whom are doubtless armed and dangerous.
But they've always been that way. That's not "becoming" dangerous. That's same old same old. Homeless people hang out on transit hubs. Airports, too, but fewer of them there.
Here's a NYC story from 40+ years ago when I worked at the PABT. They were putting the north wing on, and some of the work was done at night when there were limited bus operations. It was the night before Thanksgiving.
Two of the engineers working overnight took the stairs from one floor to another and found one of the homeless regulars dead in the stairwell.
They went to the PAPD command in the terminal and reported the dead guy. The cop starts complaining that now he has to do paperwork that might keep him.there beyond the end of his shift, blah blah blah. But OK, thanks for letting me know.
Dennis and Rich continue on with monitoring the night contractor, and a few hours later, they cross 9th Avenue to a deli to get coffee. And there on the sidewalk, is the same dead guy--now in NYPD's jurisdiction.
Before they left that morning, the dead guy was back in the PABT, apparently ready to be written up in the next shift, and the night cops of both NYPD and PAPD were home for Thanksgiving.
Well, I wouldn't know that "it's always been like that" since I just started visiting there... As far as I knew, it was dangerous for decades, but then got much safer. Guess not!
Well, I wouldn't know that "it's always been like that" since I just started visiting there... As far as I knew, it was dangerous for decades, but then got much safer. Guess not!
It did get better. But during COVID, it got worse. The homeless and druggies had the run of the place. Now the city is back to life, and they are being pushed back to the usual places.
Places like transit terminals will always have those types.
It did get better. But during COVID, it got worse. The homeless and druggies had the run of the place. Now the city is back to life, and they are being pushed back to the usual places.
Places like transit terminals will always have those types.
Opinion:
Well done!
Agree. It did run better. 100% better
I can testify to that as a born ,raised,worked,retired New Yorker.
I worked in the buttholes of this city that no one would dare to walk during the darkest of hours.
I worked in areas of high crime to watch them disappear under "Broken Windows Policy "
As you mentioned Homeless and Druggies were removed.
In addition,
Hookers Dealers,and mobsters were also extinguished.
N.Y.C. ran it's best during the Administration years under Rudolph Giuliani (2) and Mike Bloomberg (3)
accounting for a total of 20 years.
20 years under an administration that solved the problem.
Not the one in office now that prefers to have criminals pitch
their tents elsewhere rather than putting them behind bars where they belong.
The exodus of half a million people , myself included,
as the only response to this simple but somehow complicated
riddle our current Mayor can not seem to solve.
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