Posted July 10, 2015 5:15 PM ET; Last updated July 12, 2015 8:56 PM ET
[From article]
New York’s revolving door of justice sprang a scary leak Saturday when a threatening, public-urinating, jagged-glass-waving homeless man was twice hauled away by cops — only to each time be quickly released to terrorize the same stretch of Broadway on the Upper West Side.
“I’ve seen him there peeing before, washing himself,” said an outraged neighbor, Israel Verchik.
The area stinks like a toilet, said Verchik, 61, one of many New Yorkers who voiced their outrage over the homeless explosion on Gotham streets.
“I live here on the second floor and I can smell it in my bedroom,” Verchik said.
“It’s outrageous that the city doesn’t do anything to help him.”
The unnamed 49-year-old vagrant, who goes by the moniker “Monk,”
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City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
The Manhattan Democrat has proposed decriminalizing several low-level crimes, including public urinating, biking on the sidewalk, publicly consuming alcohol, being in a park after dark, failing to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/12/peeing-menace-cuffed-by-cops-only-to-be-back-on-the-streets/
Peeing menace cuffed by cops, only to be back on the streets
By Kevin Fasick and Melkorka Licea
New York Post
July 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Wrapped in rags and a Mets blanket the hobo wandered into traffic at around 10:30 a.m. and relieved himself as cabs, cars and buses whizzed by between West 83rd and 84th streets on the Upper West Side.
He finished his business at a nearby garbage bin, then strolled back to the front of a Victoria’s Secret store at Broadway and 85th Street, where he camped out for the rest of the day.
Mark-Viverito in April announced plans to decriminalize public urination along with five other low-level offenses: biking on the sidewalk, public consumption of alcohol, being in a park after dark, failure to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/12/peeing-menace-cuffed-by-cops-only-to-be-back-on-the-streets/
Peeing menace cuffed by cops, only to be back on the streets
By Kevin Fasick and Melkorka Licea
New York Post
July 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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[From article]
Wrapped in rags and a Mets blanket the hobo wandered into traffic at around 10:30 a.m. and relieved himself as cabs, cars and buses whizzed by between West 83rd and 84th streets on the Upper West Side.
He finished his business at a nearby garbage bin, then strolled back to the front of a Victoria’s Secret store at Broadway and 85th Street, where he camped out for the rest of the day.
Mark-Viverito in April announced plans to decriminalize public urination along with five other low-level offenses: biking on the sidewalk, public consumption of alcohol, being in a park after dark, failure to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
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Photo: David McGlynn
Transit hubs, including Penn Station, are plagued by surging numbers of homeless people who publicly masturbate, harass bystanders and demand free food as the city looks the other way, commuters complain.
“It reminds me of the pre-[Rudy] Giuliani era,” said Jim Hoover, 60, who has been commuting through Penn Station since 1986. “The police aren’t chasing them away anymore.”
Just outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a homeless man drunkenly knocked a woman to the floor while stumbling around the sidewalk.
Photo: David McGlynn
http://nypost.com/2015/07/10/apparently-its-now-ok-to-pee-on-the-streets-of-new-york-city/
20 years of cleaning up NYC pissed away
By Tom Wilson
New York Post
July 10, 2015 | 10:53pm
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[From article]
Take a walk down Broadway on the Upper West Side from the 100s to the 70s, as I did Sunday, and you’ll see it everywhere. It seems every barren storefront with a rental sign in the window has become impromptu outdoor housing for a homeless person.
There are many such storefronts — ironic signs of prosperity, not recession. Rents have risen so high that small businesses often can’t afford to continue and landlords will keep a storefront unoccupied for a very long time to secure a wealthy customer willing to take a very lengthy lease (i.e., a bank).
The number of people living on the street in the neighborhood, or at least taking up daytime residence to beg for change, has skyrocketed from a mere handful to several dozen or more.
And many of the faces on the street are a type new to New York City. They’re often startlingly young and white and look like nothing so much as the hippies who used to populate the Upper West Side in the late 1960s and early ’70s. They would have fit right in at the Occupy Wall Street encampment two years ago or at a G20 protest.
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In a shop in the low 90s on Broadway where I was buying my kids ice cream, a young man came in and demanded free sample after free sample from a clearly uncomfortable teen girl behind the counter, bought nothing, then planted himself in the store, started making phone calls, and wouldn’t leave.
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all examples of what made living in pre-Giuliani New York City so problematic. It wasn’t crime per se that made you uncomfortable (even at the height of its troubles, New York had a lower per-capita crime rate than other US cities). No, the problem was a general feeling of menace — the sense that violence could break out around you at any moment.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/08/homelessness-and-closed-stores-becoming-the-new-normal-in-nyc/
Homelessness and empty stores becoming the new normal in NYC
By John Podhoretz
New York Post
July 8, 2015 | 1:12am
There are many such storefronts — ironic signs of prosperity, not recession. Rents have risen so high that small businesses often can’t afford to continue and landlords will keep a storefront unoccupied for a very long time to secure a wealthy customer willing to take a very lengthy lease (i.e., a bank).
The number of people living on the street in the neighborhood, or at least taking up daytime residence to beg for change, has skyrocketed from a mere handful to several dozen or more.
And many of the faces on the street are a type new to New York City. They’re often startlingly young and white and look like nothing so much as the hippies who used to populate the Upper West Side in the late 1960s and early ’70s. They would have fit right in at the Occupy Wall Street encampment two years ago or at a G20 protest.
[. . .]
In a shop in the low 90s on Broadway where I was buying my kids ice cream, a young man came in and demanded free sample after free sample from a clearly uncomfortable teen girl behind the counter, bought nothing, then planted himself in the store, started making phone calls, and wouldn’t leave.
[. . .]
3all examples of what made living in pre-Giuliani New York City so problematic. It wasn’t crime per se that made you uncomfortable (even at the height of its troubles, New York had a lower per-capita crime rate than other US cities). No, the problem was a general feeling of menace — the sense that violence could break out around you at any moment.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/08/homelessness-and-closed-stores-becoming-the-new-normal-in-nyc/
Homelessness and empty stores becoming the new normal in NYC
By John Podhoretz
New York Post
July 8, 2015 | 1:12am
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