{"id":238516,"date":"2021-04-29T02:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/learn-to-live-with-filth-disorder-and-crime-in-de-blasios-nyc\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T02:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:06:44","slug":"learn-to-live-with-filth-disorder-and-crime-in-de-blasios-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/learn-to-live-with-filth-disorder-and-crime-in-de-blasios-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Learn to live with filth, disorder and crime in de Blasio\u2019s NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Learn to live with filth, disorder and crime in de Blasio\u2019s NYC<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Affordable housing is always a problem in New York City, especially on the Upper West Side, so that nice young couple who pitched a tent on a subway grate in the north media<\/a>n at Broadway and 86th<\/sup>\u00a0Street had themselves a pretty sweet deal for a while. Alas, it couldn\u2019t last;\u00a0\u00a0as it turned out one of the campers was involved in a South Street Seaport murder case, and the cops made everybody move on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

As plagues go, a couple of urban campers don\u2019t measure up to frogs, hail, locusts or a progressive in City Hall. Then again, without a progressive in City Hall, there likely wouldn\u2019t be tents in the Broadway median, either.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio hammered the Upper West Side hard during this pandemic year, cramming boutique hotels full of lunatics, junkies, panhandlers and petty criminals \u2014 and then was nowhere to be found when the neighborhood convulsed.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Zabar\u2019s shoppers who were horrified: East Side, West Side, all around town \u2014 everybody got a full ration of community trauma. Also, Brooklyn and the subways; don\u2019t forget the subways.<\/p>\n

Or the crime. Or the trash-littered streets. Or all the other dark memories of pre-Giuliani Gotham, suddenly come roaring back to reality.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Police at the scene where a person was shot at a subway station on Grand Concourse at W171st Street in Bronx, NY, on April 28, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But none of this is news<\/a>, you say. Why dredge it up now? Because of the tent.<\/p>\n

It was never going to last, nomads being nomads. But the fact that it was there at all this week demonstrates that chaos and disruption are the new normal in the Big App<\/a>le.<\/p>\n

Really. There were no tents on Broadway Wednesday night, but there could be 10 by the weekend. Yet would there be any at all if the mayor hadn\u2019t turned the slightly threadbare Lucerne on West 79th<\/sup>\u00a0Street into Hotel Hellscape last year?<\/p>\n

If that isn\u2019t intent, what is? And, again, the new normal.<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just de Blasio, and it isn\u2019t just vagrants. Among the other insanities that marked the city\u2019s cultural flight from reasonable law enforcement was Manhattan DA Cy Vance\u2019s announcement two years ago that he would no longer prosecute transit fare-beaters. Doing so disproportionately impacted petty criminals, he said, so better to let them go their way.<\/p>\n

So now a Metropolitan Transportation Authority insider says that some 15 percent (and rising) of daily riders are fare-beaters \u2014 and good luck cramming that genie back in the bottle.<\/p>\n

Of course, it took a village full of idiots \u2014 de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the City Council, four of New York\u2019s five DAs and the state Legislature \u2014 to reverse the hard-won public-safety gains of the Giuliani-Bloomberg administrations.<\/p>\n

Murder was up 95 percent in 2020. The figure is 35 percent above that so far this year, and it takes one of those digital clickers to track all the shootings. Riders are terrified of the subways. Roving bands of protesters routinely block bridges and principal thoroughfares. Panhandlers and crazy people routinely harass those tourists brave enough to return to the city\u2019s iconic public spaces.<\/p>\n

And if this isn\u2019t a new normal, why are people treating it as if it is? Especially the city\u2019s mayoral candidates.<\/p>\n

Oh, sure, there\u2019s some talk about crime here and vagrancy there, but everybody\u2019s nibbling around the edges, and the viable candidates are either obsessed with race-infused ideology and other stupid stuff or paralyzed by fear of social-media cancellation.<\/p>\n

Some sound bites sound reasonable, but most are vapid, and none reveals any understanding of what is happening to the city right now. Those who may understand lack the courage to speak the truth about it.<\/p>\n

Picture a candidate who declared \u2014 in full throat and without equivocation \u2014 that subways aren\u2019t for sleeping and neither are subway grates, that cops should be looking out for madmen on subway platforms and not chatting amicably with vagrants. It\u2019s hard to imagine that such a candidate wouldn\u2019t catch some traction.<\/p>\n

Unless the city has totally given up, which would be far scarier than a tent on the Broadway median.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RLMac2<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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