The pro-criminal communist mayor of New York City is making quality of life problems worse for ordinary New Yorkers. According to the New York Post, a dangerous and gross homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight. Drug dealers are in their glory.
Dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now stretch from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue, a concerning eyesore for local workers, residents, and tourists lining up to visit the popular Intrepid Museum.
City Hall, governed by a man who wants to defund the police and abolish prisons, is turning a blind eye and forcing the NYPD cops to stand down under a new policy.
“We can’t get rid of them,” one city parks enforcement officer said Sunday. “These ones here are stealing everything. They stole our key for the hose; they stole our ladder; they take what they can. And there are escorts in there too. Prostitutes. I see them; they’re right there.
“Definitely getting worse,” she said.
“People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”
Under new rules in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the NYPD is no longer authorized to clear the encampments. The city Department of Homeless Services is responsible for conducting the sweeps, but it hasn’t done so. Industrious vagrants lounge on stolen couches, display pricey electronics and other goods — including Broadway theater lights and high-end telescopes — and even peddle drugs to sex workers who also ply their trade inside the shantytown or filthy public bathrooms, locals said.
Democrats want to turn us into a third-world hellhole.
