{"id":304195,"date":"2021-07-21T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:05:51","slug":"losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Losing battle for NYC streets: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2781431da14\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2781431da14\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin\/#Bezos_up_up_away\" >Bezos up, up &amp; away<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin\/#Joe_misses_point_on_FB\" >Joe misses point on FB<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/losing-battle-for-nyc-streets-goodwin\/#HEADLINE\" >HEADLINE:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Losing battle for NYC streets: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s an observation that defines an entire misbegotten era in New York. It comes from Marko Majic, head of business development for City Jeans on East Fordham Road in The Bronx.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a bazaar in Istanbul,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cThe only difference is in Istanbul it\u2019s legal and organized and here it is illegal and unorganized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Majic was talking about the explosion of street vendors in his neighborhood who hawk an endless array of products and even set up three-card monte <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. One official counted 242 vendors in an area that has 230 storefronts.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are equivalent, but the vendors are winning the war. And not just on East Fordham Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For months, The Post has documented the explosion of unlicensed vendors and peddlers taking over streets in neighborhood after neighborhood. The sidewalks along Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn\u2019s Sunset Park and Flushing\u2019s Main Street have been jammed cheek-to-jowl with racks and tables holding knock-off handbags, food, pottery, clothing, cosmetics, water and electronics.<\/p>\n<p>In East New York, sex is openly for sale after dark as hookers prowl an industrial stretch, with johns lining up in cars and trucks as pimps keep an eye on the transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The products are different, but the problems are similar \u2014 and so is the genesis. The progressive assault on law enforcement and decent public behavior did not end with the last cries of the defund-the-police movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A trickle-down impact is a lowering of the bar on personal conduct, allowing rampant disorder to occupy public spaces. Business is thriving in East New York because prosecutors have pulled back enforcement of prostitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public use of drugs is no longer taboo, and so junkies shoot up and pass out in parks, most notoriously in Washington Square Park, driving local families mad with frustration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"With the NYPD shorthanded, alleged prostitutes now line up for pimps to no end.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-18872431 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>With the NYPD shorthanded, alleged prostitutes now line up for pimps to no end.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, a March city law took vendor enforcement out of the hands of cops and handed it to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which isn\u2019t even fully operational yet.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the hands-off trend is a growing foulness and squalor in public spaces, courtesy of the government\u2019s tacit <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval for peddlers, druggies and hookers to create mayhem and diminish the quality of life for residents and businesses. While it\u2019s not as deadly or frightening as violent crime, disorder is a pernicious partner and one often bleeds into the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feuds between hawkers led to a shooting in The Bronx and two in Times Square. One in May injured a 4-year-old girl and another in June wounded a Marine.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of development rail against gentrification. But in many parts of the five boroughs, City Hall\u2019s policies are leading to ghettoization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of them, we almost have no business,\u201d Mahmood Tariq, owner of Phones &amp; Games Center on Webster Avenue and East Fordham, told a reporter. \u201cThese vendors, they have nothing to pay, and they\u2019re making much more money than us because everything goes to pocket. We have to pay taxes. We have to pay licenses, rent, other fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given all the political palaver about mom-and-pop shops being the lifeblood of New York, you\u2019d think officials would be on the case to protect the small, licensed, tax-paying and tax-collecting businesses. After all, nothing says distress like a row of empty storefronts covered in graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s quite the opposite. Councilwoman Margaret Chin of Manhattan, who sponsored the law taking vendor enforcement away from the NYPD, has no regrets despite the impact, saying business improvement districts set up by the merchants should actually help the peddlers who are taking their customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She even has a name for the vendors. \u201cThey\u2019re microbusinesses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>How clever of her to erase the distinctions between legal businesses and those who are commercial squatters. Under that ridiculous theory, squeegee men are also microbusinesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t put it past the growing ranks of come-and-get-it progressives to eventually embrace them, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Illegal street vendors along East Fordham Road in The Bronx make a mockery out of hard working small business owners who pay their taxes.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-18872458 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-829.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-829.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-829.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-829.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/goodwin-streets-of-ny-829.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Illegal street vendors along East Fordham Road in The Bronx make a mockery out of hard-working small business owners who pay their taxes. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When down is up, when legal and illegal are the same and when cops are seen as the problem instead of the solution, there is no limit to how far a city can decline. Nor is there any limit to how much nonsense pols and advocates can add to the bonfire.<\/p>\n<p>If hookers are just sex workers, why shouldn\u2019t they, like vendors selling water and tube socks, be able to peddle their wares openly? And why only in poor neighborhoods?<\/p>\n<p>And if everybody in Rikers Island is an innocent victim of a racist criminal-justice system, why should anybody be arrested and prosecuted?<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, why do we even need laws and jails?<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adams narrowly got the mayoral nomination from Democrats on the strength of his promise to tackle the surge of murder, gunfire and crime. It is clearly the top order of business, and Adams is already changing the conversation among the political class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His comments Monday that many of those arrested and released should be held in jail on bail are a direct challenge to Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature, who conspired to turn courthouse doors into revolving doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Almost as important, Adams, Brooklyn borough president and likely the next mayor, also addressed the mindset that high crime is inevitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really has become a place where lawlessness is the norm,\u201d he said in a radio interview. \u201cAnd that is just unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right, of course, and saying so is a good start. If Adams stays the course and turns his words into actions and policies, he will tap into a well of support among millions of New Yorkers fed up with lawlessness and decline.<\/p>\n<p>Then, and only then, can New York come back again.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bezos_up_up_away\"><\/span>Bezos up, up &amp; away<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>File this one under American ingenuity and stick-to-itiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From The Wall Street Journal story on the successful spaceflight of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his passengers and crew: \u201cMr. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 and began acquiring land in Texas to build the private facility used for Tuesday\u2019s launch. The company hired staffers to develop rockets, engines and spacecraft and now employs more than 3,500 people at facilities in Florida, California and other locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joe_misses_point_on_FB\"><\/span>Joe misses point on FB<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Biden walked back his reckless charge that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> is \u201ckilling people\u201d because it doesn\u2019t move fast enough to suit him when it blocks posts casting doubt on COVID vaccines. But the president still doesn\u2019t get the point that disagreement is not disinformation, especially when it comes to evolving <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The failure to make that crucial distinction lies at the heart of Biden\u2019s demand that social- media platforms censor anyone who doesn\u2019t agree that the vaccines are safe for all who qualify. Indeed, Facebook is already doing the censoring, just not fast enough to please the president.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on him for trying to gut the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HEADLINE\"><\/span>HEADLINE:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDesigner creates <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/15637231\/wedding-dress-made-from-dumped-face-masks\/\">wedding dress<\/a> made entirely from dumped face-masks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one way to meet the \u201csomething borrowed\u201d requirement.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It comes from Marko Majic, head of business development for City Jeans on East Fordham Road in The Bronx.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt looks like a bazaar in Istanbul,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cThe only difference is in Istanbul it\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/brooklyn-prostitutes.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112278,32128,30242,4998,10701,66147,4974,71631,991,112380,12115,5000,82168,72183,7342,71083,70806,70756,74693,4955],"class_list":["post-304195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-20-21","tag-censorship","tag-city-council","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-eric-adams","tag-facebook","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-joe-biden","tag-peddling","tag-police","tag-progressives","tag-prostitution","tag-quality-of-life","tag-shootings","tag-small-business","tag-the-bronx","tag-times-square","tag-vendors","tag-washington-square-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}