{"id":36975,"date":"2020-07-30T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/homeless-druggies-are-making-life-a-holy-hell-for-nyc-church\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:25:00","slug":"homeless-druggies-are-making-life-a-holy-hell-for-nyc-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/homeless-druggies-are-making-life-a-holy-hell-for-nyc-church\/","title":{"rendered":"#Homeless druggies are making life a holy hell for NYC church"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Homeless druggies are making life a holy hell for NYC church<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Sanctuary! Sanctuary!<\/p>\n

A struggling Manhattan church has been forced to block off the steps to its front door to keep homeless druggies from defiling the sacred space, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Prayers alone weren\u2019t enough to protect the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Hell\u2019s Kitchen from temporary residents of The Watson Hotel nearby, so a makeshift barricade built out of a clothes-drying rack and twine now bars the entrance to the house of God.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people would come and crap all over the stairs!\u201d an outraged church member said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe super did that to try and stop them. He\u2019s here trying to guard this place with his body! If he didn\u2019t, they would break in and wreck this place!\u201d<\/p>\n

The super, who gave his name as George, said the front door has to remain locked even during Sunday services, forcing the faithful to sneak into the sanctuary at 422 E. 57th St. through the side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t open it up anymore,\u201d he said of the main entrance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were throwing syringes in there, smoking pot on the steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cEvery day I\u2019m fighting these guys. I\u2019ve had to put my foot in a few asses! \u2026 Right now I\u2019m like a security guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another church member, who showed up to pray Wednesday afternoon, said the super was \u201cbeing modest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stands out here 10 hours a day, sometimes more, shooing them, asking them to keep moving,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like digging in the sand! They were s\u2013ting right there next to the doors. He tied up the stairs and now they go across the street. It\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

On its website, Trinity Presbyterian describes itself as a \u201c100-member congregation\u201d that\u2019s \u201climited by space, membership size and funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnprotected by bank accounts, it faces each day as a community the same realities of each of its members and their 35,000 neighbors who confront head-on the contradictory and crushing stresses of our society and often live more out of hope than by plan,\u201d the site says.<\/p>\n

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A makeshift barrier to keep people from hanging out on the steps of the Trinity Presbyterian Church.<\/span>William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hell\u2019s Kitchen resident Zack Rakitnican, who works as the super at three apartment buildings on the block, described routinely having to clean up liquor and beer bottles, syringes, needles and human waste from the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Rakitnican, 43, also said his employers had recently received more than $1,000 in fines because sanitation inspectors have been showing up at 5:30 a.m. \u201cand we start at 8.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get ticketed before we clean it up!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never like this here all the years I work here. Last 15 years, never this bad. It\u2019s going down fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

A maintenance worker at another building, who gave his name as David, said he often finds drugs and other items stashed in the street planters, and he displayed a photo on his phone of what app<\/a>eared to be a prison-style shank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find a knife yesterday. I take a picture and I throw it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A couple that lives on the block said the situation there was so bad that they\u2019re going to move away.<\/p>\n

The husband said there was \u201cno warning\u201d before \u201ca yellow school bus showed up in May\u201d and about 300 homeless people moved into the hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get it, everyone needs a place to live \u2014 but you shouldn\u2019t have to go out and see guys smoking crack outside your apartment every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically ruined the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wife said, \u201cI look at apartments all day. We\u2019re going uptown where it is quieter.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the hotel, a woman who identified herself as the manager declined to address any of the allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure what you are talking about but if you have any problems call 311, OK?\u201d she said before storming off.<\/p>\n

Several hours later, three NYPD vehicles pulled up in front of the hotel and six cops ran inside, only to emerge a short time later with an unidentified man who was put into a waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always something with this place,\u201d one cop said while shaking his head.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/img>
Police and an ambulance seen at the Watson Hotel.<\/span>Kevin Sheehan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The incident involved someone who reportedly had a psychotic episode, but neither drugs nor alcohol played a part, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the city Department of Homeless Services wouldn\u2019t confirm whether it had placed any people in the Watson, citing state law, but said that moving 13,000 homeless people out of shelters and into hotels had \u201csaved lives and flattened our pandemic curve\u201d amid the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the point at which public health guidance determines that clients can be relocated back to our congregate shelters from the temporary emergency relocation sites, we will inform the community,\u201d DHS spokesman Isaac McGinn said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWorking together with not-for-profit social<\/a> service provider partners and the community, through collaborative support and compassion, we\u2019re confident that we will make this the best experience it can be for these New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy and Julia Marsh<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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