Homeless Taking Over Broadway's Pedestrian Plazas

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Homeless Taking Over Broadway's Pedestrian Plazas


MANHATTAN — Broadway’s new pedestrian plazas are being overrun by homeless people flocking there to sleep, driving some fearful residents to avoid the street.

“It gets filled with homeless people, the whole entire length,” said Scott Bowen, 48, an accountant who’s lived in the neighborhood for nearly 20 years and said the situation between 34th and 42nd streets has grown so bad he now avoids Broadway altogether at night.

“I no longer feel secure walking this route after dark,” he wrote in a letter to Midtown’s Community Board 5, urging them for help.

Broadway’s pedestrian plazas were intended to serve as peaceful oases along bustling Midtown streets, giving locals and tourists a place to sit down, people watch and relax.

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110916/midtown/homeless-taking-over-broadways-pedestrian-plazas




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NOTICE it's the homeless who are the problem -- NOT HOMELESSNESS!!

We have 66 MILLION AMERICANS living in poverty and we're not calling this a DEPRESSION!!

How dumb are we?


Btw, Hartmann said reports were 56 million, but they were wrong by 10 million!!

[RKP5637]

1. It's amazing. Just push 66 million people under the rug. Just put 22% of the

country in FEMA camps. This country is such a shadow of its former self. Today, we just address the cosmetics, not the underlying cancer. A recipe for eventual disaster.

[grilled onions]

2. Shelters Are Packed

SRO pads have been torn down decades ago...Rents are obscene...Jobs are nowhere...Those with substance abuse,ex military with flashback or physical problems have nowhere to go...meanwhile the word upscale is everywhere and they would like nothing better then to bulldoze the homeless into another galaxy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Shelters are packed, spreading diseases like drug resistant TB, and generally just not

a happy place to live anyway. :(

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. When I Lived In Ft. Lauderdale The Homeless Were Ubiquitous

I tried to give a buck or two to every one I mst but it's hard when you are living on a subsistence yourself.

[hedgehog]

4. They should be out camping in Central Park!

[Newest Reality]

5. That's right,

fear the homeless and poor. Maybe that is a projection of a person's fear of being there eventually, in some cases.

Meanwhile, one of the most obvious places where true criminals thrive, out in the open, (Wall St., etc.) continue to inflict damage and commit robbery's of vast proportions.

I would say the fear of the destitute is a bit misplaced when it comes to proportion.

[butterfly77]

6. Where in the hell do they expect them to go..

they will find some place if the so called special or VIP's come into that area for some reason.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I imagine they would like them to dig a giant pit and then jump into it.

[KamaAina]

9. Well, there's no way Bloomberg could have seen THAT coming

:sarcasm:

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10. kick