The “SkyWatch” was up and running in Tompkins Square Park on July 22.
Photo: William Farrington
[From article]
The elevated “SkyWatch” booth was taken away at 6 a.m. Tuesday. It had been erected July 21 after a Post exposé about the hordes of homeless people who had invaded the park and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s subsequent attempt to chat up the vagrants living there.
The NYPD packed up the "SkyWatch" tower at Tompkins Square Park on Tuesday morning.
[From article]
The elevated “SkyWatch” booth was taken away at 6 a.m. Tuesday. It had been erected July 21 after a Post exposé about the hordes of homeless people who had invaded the park and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s subsequent attempt to chat up the vagrants living there.
Photo: Demetrius E Loadholt
But despite the intention to provide a sense of security, the cops’ eye in the sky irked East Villagers who visited Tompkins Square Park on a daily basis.
“I don’t love seeing it here,” said Paul Engler, a 58-year-old business owner. “I think the police were doing their very best to make sure things stayed on the level, but I’d rather see cops walking around the park. That gives people access to them.”
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People sleep in Tompkins Square Park.
But despite the intention to provide a sense of security, the cops’ eye in the sky irked East Villagers who visited Tompkins Square Park on a daily basis.
“I don’t love seeing it here,” said Paul Engler, a 58-year-old business owner. “I think the police were doing their very best to make sure things stayed on the level, but I’d rather see cops walking around the park. That gives people access to them.”
[. . .]
Photo: Chad Rachman
“Don’t make no difference to me [that the tower is gone],” said another vagrant. “All the same s–t that was going on before they put it [in] was still going when it was here and it’s still going on now, and if you was about to do something, you just made sure you turned your back on it.”
http://nypost.com/2015/07/28/nypds-big-brother-watch-tower-removed-from-east-village/
NYPD’s Big Brother watch tower removed from East Village
By Kevin Fasick and Chris Perez
New York Post
July 28, 2015 | 10:37am
“Don’t make no difference to me [that the tower is gone],” said another vagrant. “All the same s–t that was going on before they put it [in] was still going when it was here and it’s still going on now, and if you was about to do something, you just made sure you turned your back on it.”
http://nypost.com/2015/07/28/nypds-big-brother-watch-tower-removed-from-east-village/
NYPD’s Big Brother watch tower removed from East Village
By Kevin Fasick and Chris Perez
New York Post
July 28, 2015 | 10:37am
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