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How’s your Schadenfreude today? Does it need a boost? If so,
here’s some news from the People’s Republic of the Upper West Side of
Manhattan. Few Americans are so resolutely leftist that the residents of this
neighborhood.
That being the case one understands why Comrade Bill de
Blasio, currently the mayor, should have chosen the neighborhood, around West
94th St, off Riverside Drive, to install a new homeless shelter. Of
course, many of the residents of the sometime hotel, the Alexander, were displaced
or seriously disturbed… but they are
certainly not the kind of people that Comrade de Blasio cares about.
Apparently, the court does not much care about them either.
The story gets better. Now residents of the neighborhood,
especially those who live on toney Riverside Drive have been obliged, by the
influx of fine homeless people, to hire private security guards. Trust me, it
couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people.
The New York Post has the story:
The
city’s homelessness crisis is so out of control that Upper West Side residents
are shelling out $120 a month each for private security guards to patrol their
neighborhood seven days a week, The Post has learned.
A dozen
apartment buildings are part of the desperation effort that’s costing a total
$140,000 a year, and they all surround the former Hotel Alexander that the de
Blasio administration recently turned
into a homeless shelter.
“It’s a
classic case of adding insult to injury,” said a resident of 251 W. 95th St.
“The
city dumped the problem in our lap, then refused to provide the tools to keep
the problem at bay. So now we’re footing the bill ourselves, so at least we
don’t have to worry about getting mugged. It’s a total outrage.”
The
money pays for a single guard at a time from Cambridge Security Services to
keep tabs on the four-square-block area bounded by West 95th Street, Broadway,
West 93rd Street and Riverside Drive between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m., except for
Fridays and Saturdays, when the hours are 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
“My
initial reaction was ‘I don’t want to do that,’ but people in this neighborhood
are upset,” said veteran Broadway and TV actor Bill Tatum, who’s president of
the co-op board at The Fremont, two doors from the new shelter at 306 W. 94th
St.
Anyway, be thankful for the little things: New York is not
San Francisco…yet.
4 comments:
But NOTHING will keep them from voting Dem--forever.
The suffering of people who deserve it makes me happy. This article has made me happy. Keep 'em coming.
I'm guessing they won't be contributing to DeBlasio's next campaign fund.
"I'm guessing they won't be contributing to DeBlasio's next campaign fund"
Yes they will. They're in a cult
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