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“Go look at other cities,” Mayor Eric Adams warns of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to give up breaking up homeless encampments — and LA’s MacArthur Park can be a great place to begin.
Once loved by the largely working-class, Latino group surrounding it, the park is now a harmful, fentanyl-plagued drug den, the place homeless collect from far and vast to shoot up, mild up, cross out — and sometimes overdose.
If the town gives enough help, Mamdani argues, it received’t have to interrupt up homeless camps.
Hmm: LA City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez (a Democratic Socialist, because it occurs) has ensured that a city-funded nonprofit fingers out free food, crack-smoking provides and contemporary needles to MacArthur’s homeless; critics credibly argue that’s why they’ve taken over the park.
That is: Giving people the gear they need to keep doing medication encourages them to keep doing medication.
Not that you simply need to exit west to see that: Gotham’s own two “overdose prevention centers,” supposedly protected locations to shoot up, have rushed dozens of “clients” to emergency rooms, with not less than two fatalities.
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Even if Mamdani’s plan doesn’t (but) embrace handing out free provides to junkies, permitting homeless camps to set up store completely throughout the town will ultimately end in the identical horrifying scenes.
Which New York City parks will Mamdani let the homeless colonize?
Prospect Park, the place stroller-pushing Park Slope dad and mom take their toddlers every day?
How about Pelham Bay Park, a natural magnificence in The Bronx?
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Or Flushing Meadows, the home of the US Open?
Will he invite the hoards of drug-using homeless to his new home’s entrance steps at Carl Schurz Park?
Van Cortland? Greenbelt? Tompkins Square?
All of them?
Adams warned the town will see “idealism colliding with realism” if Mamdani sticks to his vow to go away the camps alone; sadly, the new mayor’s transition crew appears to resemble the privileged NYU college students who miss the homeless drug addicts not too long ago cleared from Washington Square Park, at the same time as everlasting residents cheer.
The concept that bottomless support and countless permissiveness will heal all society’s ills is pure fantasy — and if Mamdani governs on that foundation, shedding Gotham’s valuable public inexperienced areas to harmful dysfunction received’t be his solely catastrophe.
