Hundreds of homeless people who have been put up in luxury hotels on Manhattan's Upper West Side by the city as part of its efforts to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks in shelters are terrifying residents by urinating, sleeping and taking drugs in the streets.
In July, it emerged that 139 of the city's iconic hotels - which had been forced closed for months - had agreed to take in homeless people for $175 per person, per night as part of a scheme by the city to try to avoid a breakout of COVID-19 in homeless shelters.
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-Chuck
Same thing is going on in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteGee. Let me think.
What do these cities have in common...?
That's fan-fucking-tastic.
ReplyDeleteThose assholes have been smugly voting for the assholes who did that.
They have the gov't they deserve.
Just wait until they try to sell their $3,000,000 condo and the real estate agent has to walk prospective buyers past all the junkies beating off on the street.
No Broadway shows, no great restaurants, no wonderful museums, no carriage rides through Central Park, fines out the ass for non-compliance with illegal edicts - what’s so great about NYC?
ReplyDeleteSeems like Hillary and Chelsea ought to be taking in several dozen of the folks mentioned in the story, especially since they have spacious digs out in a nice wooded area with plenty of 24 hour security.
ReplyDeletehow about we offer $1000 reward to a junkie for Hillary's head.
DeleteWhy not make the offer to 1000 junkies with the promise of $10,00 for Hill's head. And then disappear. If one of the 1000 does the deed, he'll never find where the offer came from.
DeleteUnfortunately the ne'er do wells do $275 per night in damages.
ReplyDeleteTo say nothing of the bed bugs they leave behind.
DeleteI'm not Mr. Clean, but hotels are filthy places in the best of times. I've had to have bed linens replaced several times. They never change the top cover, the blankets or the pillows. Smelling somebody else's hair when you get into bed is disgusting.
DeleteI've stayed at budget hotels with arm chairs and couches that are so filthy the arms are black. That's not an exaggeration.
And I ain't Howie Mandell by a long shot, either, but I take along a small bottle of detergent and wash down the desk, dresser top, chair arms and other horizontal surfaces I'm likely to touch while I'm there.
That's in the best of times. What do you think these rooms are going to look like after they've been occupied for months by homeless people?
"Once you put a bum in the Waldorf, you never get rid of the bum.
ReplyDeleteStolen from Rudy Kipling's "Dane-Geld":
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
Thats amazing! I check myself and my family into a 60-dollar a night red-roof inn, Chazwell the bum sleeps on a Simmons beauty rest at The Ritz for free.
ReplyDeleteFor the past 6 months.
Instead of the cardboard box in the alley he usually uses.
And the mayor wants federal aid to pay for that?
My money?
That I won't spend on myself (there are cheaper options!)
But I should just hand it over to some other State that made this decision?
... its just like everything else they do, no consequences for their choices. Someone else will pay for it.
Worried about the spread of Covid among the Homeless, yet, stick the infected in Nursing Homes.
ReplyDeleteCuomo and de Blasio have basically ensured NYC will become another rotting Democrat hellhole that no one with any means to go elsewhere will ever return to...
New Detroit City, NY
DeleteMy friend JD, a cardiologist, lives in Manhattan. When he moved into his building, the neighbors asked what he does for a living. Hearing his answer, they were shocked. “Then how can you afford to live here?” His neighbors are all financial sector parasites, er, I mean traders and hedge fund managers, good people who do so much to service this nation. To them a physician is an impoverished wretch who makes a negligible amount of money. (Anything under 7 figures.)
ReplyDeleteSo I hope those grifters who have looted our economy suffer. (JD grew up in a much more dangerous city than NYC, he can take care of himself; I’m not worried.)
As to the Upper West Side specifically, it has about 200k inhabitants. About 70% are white (and among those 70,000 are Jewish), 15% Hispanic, around 10% Asian. Which tells you that it’s 5-10% Blacks. The median household income is $123,000. It’s a nice place (if you go in for crowded cities) and fairly exclusive. It’ll be interesting to see if these wealthy, educated (about 79% have at least a bachelor’s degree) overwhelmingly progressive people will still support their Dem leaders after having this economic diversity dumped in their doorsteps.
"...I mean traders and hedge fund managers, good people who do so much to service this nation."
Delete"Service this nation" in much the same manner as the bull "services" the heifer.
My goodness.
ReplyDeleteWhat could possibly go wrong???