Mamdani makes big move to ruin NYC and create bigger, better homelessness

New York City is about to earn a shiny new nickname: Tent City, Filth City, or maybe Lepto City, courtesy of that charming bacterial souvenir from homeless encampments.

New York's socialistically new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has decided the NYPD should keep its hands off closing down these charming outdoor living rooms.

Ever since Mamdani teased this genius plan back in December, fresh encampments have been sprouting like weeds across neighborhoods. The fallout is a disaster for the folks actually living rough and for anyone trying to keep the city functional.

From Friday through Sunday night during that lovely bone-chilling winter storm, eight people turned up dead outdoors, likely homeless. Mamdani even admitted several were already known to the shelter system. Compassionate, right?

As these setups multiply, locals dial 311 in desperation, but the NYPD is now handcuffed. Even New York's Strongest, the sanitation crew, get orders to scoop up the trash and human waste but leave the mattresses, clothes, cardboard shanties, and all the rest exactly where they are. 

In other words, full maid service, zero actual cleanup of the hazardous junk pile.

City Councilwoman Joann Ariola watched this farce unfold along Jamaica Avenue, in Queens, and quipped, "What next, a city-funded turndown service?"

We should all be furious. Mamdani's serving up a twisted version of "compassion" for the homeless while flipping the bird to every resident and business owner stuck dealing with the fallout. These encampments drag in crime, garbage, and a general collapse of basic street decency.

They also invite lovely blasts from the past like leptospirosis, currently making the rounds in a Berkeley, California encampment. The bug hides in rat urine but spreads through tainted surfaces or puddles. The cold keeps it somewhat in check now, but come spring thaw, parents near these setups will be yelling at kids not to splash in puddles or paw random street junk.

Even fellow Democrats are losing it over Comrade Mamdani's refusal to act. Upper West Side Council Member Gale Brewer fumed, "You cannot have defecating, you cannot have food on the street, you cannot have all these boxes." 

But Mamdani's answer is apparently yes, you can.

His predecessor Eric Adams went hard the other way, clearing encampments and declaring, "We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses on the side of highways, in trees, in front of schools, in parks. This is just not acceptable."

Mamdani's responded: "We are going to take an approach that understands its mission is connecting those New Yorkers to housing."

Sure, that's one job, Comrade Mayor. But you're also supposed to keep the rest of the city safe, livable, and appealing to the tourists and businesses that keep the lights on. This policy basically tells them all to pound sand.

No city should have to put up with sprawling encampments. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that towns can clear them. Justice Neil Gorsuch nailed it: otherwise, "with encampments dotting neighborhood sidewalks, adults and children in these communities are sometimes forced to navigate around used needles, human waste, and other hazards to make their way to school, the grocery store, or work."

Sound familiar, New York?

Since that ruling, even Democratic heavyweights like failed California Gov. Gavin Newsom and various mayors out west have cracked down hard.

Mamdani is sprinting in reverse, dooming Gotham to more crime and disease outbreaks. Los Angeles Police data from 2018-2022 showed the homeless were 1 percent of the population but 11 to 15 percent of violent crime suspects.

Nationwide, 13 percent of those in encampments are registered sex offenders. In states like Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, it's a jaw-dropping 50 percent or higher, per the Cicero Institute. Yeah, that's exactly who you want your kids dodging on the walk to school or after dark.

Mamdani claims he's doing the right thing for the homeless, keeping their plight front and center to force housing solutions while they now freeze in their tents and cardboard boxes.

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In reality, he's turning them into political props and making their situation worse. Street life slashes life expectancy by about 27 years on average. Crime, disease, overdoses under cardboard or on piss-soaked mattresses; that's the compassion we're witnessing.

Adams put it perfectly, calling out the nonsense: "there is nothing compassionate or 'progressive' about leaving people to freeze in makeshift encampments. It ... dehumanizes the very people who need help."

But hey, virtue signaling over results, the classic move.

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed has another brilliant idea to deal with the homeless

The streets of San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is a woman with ideas. Unfortunately her ideas are generally idiotic. For example, she had the idea that paying the homeless drug using population a hundred dollars a week to stay off drugs was a brilliant idea. Anyone with a brain knows how that would work out for drug users with money in their pockets. 

But it's the taxpayers footing the expense, so what, she worry?

Now her latest stroke of genius is to offer bus tickets to the homeless and hope they "get out of Dodge." She is having city workers and cops who are conducting sweeps to get the homeless out of their tent villages, offer them bus tickets out of town in place of a shelter bed.

This is a cry of desperation by a failing mayor in a failing city.

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“We’re reverting to enforcement,” said Wayman Young, a police officer overseeing the sweep in San Francisco. “Now we don’t have to offer shelter, even though we still do.” They just offer a bribe and hope it works.

There are roughly 3,600 beds for 8,300 homeless folks. Even if they double-up it won't be enough bed. However, only about 350 take up the offer during sweeps this week. 

“Unfortunately, San Francisco does not have enough shelter or housing for every person experiencing homelessness, but we do have some beds available each day to support the work of the outreach teams, and we continue to grow our system,” Emily Cohen, the department’s spokesperson, wrote in an email.

In recent years the number of homeless from out of town has spiked. According to Bloomberg, "[T]he percentage of unhoused people in San Francisco who are from other California counties or different states has increased to 40%, up from 28% in 2019, according to data provided by the mayor’s office."

Breed lost a court case that prevented her from forcing the homeless off the streets. Those federal orders prevented both San Francisco and Los Angeles from clearing encampments and removing the homeless because there weren't enough shelter beds, which never occurred to the Democrat mayors, London Breed and Karen Bass. 

With the city possessing less than half the number of shelter beds that were needed, there was little that city officials were able to do until the Supreme Court decision, Grants Pass v. Johnson made laws preventing outdoor camping easier to enforce.

Woke enough yet?

Rather than looking for the obvious solution to San Francisco's homeless problem, Breed, concerned over the upcoming election, tried strategies other than increasing the number of shelter beds. 

On Thursday, Breed put her substantial weight behind a different approach. She issued an executive directive requiring outreach workers to offer homeless people who aren’t from San Francisco free transportation out of town, maybe to places where they have friends or family who are willing to take them in. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide directive to clear homeless encampments. But Los Angeles County, which is dealing with 75,000 homeless people, has decided to defy the governor's directive and continue to same failed policies. They call it "care first." Others call it "keep your bedbugs out on the streets."

It's clear that these Democrats don't care at all for these Los Angeles County residents who are exposed to the risks posed by this mentally ill population, mostly drug addicts desperate to do whatever they must for their next fix.

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Crime continues to soar in the Big Apple under Democrat Mayor Eric Adams: NYPD response time snail-like

Major crime in New York City under Democrat Mayor Eric Adams continues to rise like a phoenix out of the ashes during his first fiscal year in office, To make matters worse, the city's police response has slowed across the board as delineated in the mayor's yearly report. And the migrant situation in the Big Apple has made matters worse.

The 520-page Mayor’s Management Report says that felonies were mentioned nearly 127,000 times over fiscal 2023, a 6.4% increase over last year. The illegal alien crisis [or migrant crisis, as the report refers to the illegal alien crisis] was mentioned more than two dozen times, and it's obvious Adams is upset with the Biden administration for allowing open borders.

The only categories that saw any improvement were murder and rape--all remaining categories jumped up over the year.

But to make matters worse, average response times for all crimes slowed by nearly two minutes to 14 minutes and 24 seconds. Now if that doesn't provide a case for gun ownership by the law abiding citizen, then you're on the wrong side of the law.

Critical and serious crimes in progress showed sluggish responses, with critical active incidents slowing more than half a minute to 9 minutes and reports of serious crimes taking just over 13 minutes for a cop to arrive, which is more than a minute slower.

The New York Post reported the following crime stats from the mayor's office:

Murder was down 9% — 424 vs 465

Rape was down 7% — 1,088 vs 1,168
Robbery was up 5% — 17.047 vs 16,178
Felony assault was up 8% — 26,959 vs 25,034
Burglary was up 2% — 15,054 vs 14,793
Grand larceny was up 5% — 51,455 vs 49,227
Car theft was up 20% — 14,902 vs 12,448

The report also highlights the NYPD’s clear refocus on 'broken windows policing' — issuing 134,580 minor tickets, which is nearly double that last year.

Tickets for public drinking sky rocketed over the fiscal year under Adams, but did little to stop the bleeding.

However, the report highlighted the department’s successes in closing cases, noting that major felony arrests jumped to nearly 50,000, which was up about 7,000 collars.

Gun play throughout the city, a key focus under the Adams administration, dropped by 23% leading to 412 fewer victims of gun violence.

“The mayor is the first to say that there is always more work to do, but the public safety gains we’ve made over the last 20 months have ensured New York City has remained the safest big city in America,” City Hall spokesman Jonah Allon said.

“Under the mayor’s leadership, the city saw a downward trend in major crimes at the end of 2022 and major crime is down overall in 2023, year-to-date, including a double-digit decrease in shootings,” he added.

However, the number of families depending on the scandal-ridden Department of Homeless Services for shelters soared by 50 percent, an increase from the 8,500 to 12,700.

The overall number of folks in DHS shelters increased to 66,195 from 45,563 the year before.

This is how the left spells suckcess.

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NYC Mayor evicting homeless: gives them 60 days to leave shelters

Single adults living in New York City's emergency shelters for migrants will have an emergency of their own handed to them by Democratic Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday. He is giving homeless men and women two months to pack up their stuff and leave.

“We have reached full capacity,” Adams said during a news conference at City Hall. “We have no more room in the city.” He has no plans of providing space for any of them to pitch tents on the grounds of Gracie Mansion, where mayors live while in office, which is not surprising since Democrats have welcomed illegal aliens into the country in droves, as long as they don't live near them.

Adams declared that the city will start handing 60-day removal notices to men and women staying in a network of emergency shelters established over the last year to house newly arrived migrants to make room for families with children. 

'Hizzoner' said the city will “re-intensify” case management social services to help illegal aliens connect with friends, families and cartels, or find other housing options in an extremely tight rental market

Migrant adults will be entitled to reapply for shelter at an arrival center if they cannot find other accommodations such as empty tents along the streets, but could be locked out of shelter if the city determines there is no space available. Adams suggested people could wait at those centers until a bed is fumigated and opens up.

Summer camp

Current estimates state that more than 54,000 newly arrived illegal aliens are staying in city shelters or emergency housing and over 100,000 are sleeping in city shelters on any given night as the city's rent soars to record heights and limited housing along with increased evictions make matters worse.

It seems as if the Democrat-run city is getting what it asked for, but only for other places, not for themselves. Funny how politicians are never affected by the laws they make.

Adams once again is asking for federal assistance [aka taxpayer money] to house the hordes of recently arrived illegal aliens in need of our money and housing. We cannot expect them to afford affordable housing because they spent whatever they had to pay the Mexican drug cartels to get here.

“We have run out of ideas,” Adams said. By "we" he meant that he did, or at least he refuses to see the graffiti on the wall: close the borders and do what Sweden and the Netherlands have begun to done by deporting those who came to those countries illegally. It's called sovereignty.

“Every day this team is figuring out where do we put the next body,” Adams said coldly, referring to human beings who came here simply looking for  free medical and dental, free housing, and respect. Of course, some have come to do damage, but we don't talk about those miscreants.

During the press briefing, Adams and top administration officials presented cheesy flyers they intend to send to the border to discourage migrants from coming to New York City.

The documents include information like “housing in NYC is very expensive" and “there is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals,” but images of rats or roaches will not be included in the handout.

Adams said the city is “going to partner with our teams down at the border to help with the dissemination of flyers."

“We have teams down at the border who are going to assist us in the distribution of flyers,” he added.

Adams said he does not think kicking people out of shelters will lead to a rise in the number of people staying in public spaces, but he probably failed math and logic.

At a court appearance on Wednesday, city attorneys will face off with lawyers from the Legal Aid Society, and former Department of Social Services Commissioner Steve Banks, who are defending the decades-old, court-mandated right-to-shelter rules.

Adams’ strategy ignited immediate backlash from several local lawmakers, as well as immigration and housing advocates. They said finding housing in less than 60 days is a ludicrous task for many low-income residents.

"I think this is inhumane. It's poverty-shaming. it's victim-shaming,” said City Council-member Diana Ayala, head of the general welfare committee. “I don't know why they think folks want to live there [in shelters] if they had alternative arrangements."

A spokesperson for City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams [no relation] said the Council is reviewing Mayor Adams' plan, which is being met with resistance by the Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless.

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NYC bank ATMs no longer home for the homeless: banks locking doors

Banks all around the Big Apple will be locking out ATM users and the homeless at night in order to stop the homeless from sleeping in the vestibules that also serve as toilets. While this will obviously be an inconvenience for people with jobs who care to use an ATM after hours, it will also require the homeless sleep elsewhere, such as subways and shelters.

Branches for Chase, City National Bank and Citizens have been surreptitiously locking their doors even to customers who have a bank card as early as 10 PM or 11 PM and reopening them early morning, according to The New York Post.

Bank branch employees told The Post that ATM lobbies have become refuges for the homeless who sleep in these small spaces overnight and often use the space as toilets, leaving their feces behind and creating a stinky safety hazard for employees and customers who are afraid to enter the lobbies lest they slip or get mugged.

“A lot of stuff happens at night,” said an ATM technician who did not want to be identified because he’s not authorized to speak to the media. 

Bank of America did not respond for comment as they were engaged in cleaning away a mess left the previous night before they finalized their decision.

Citizens acknowledged the disruption to its service, citing “safety issues.” Surprisingly, they never mentioned the ambience issue as well.

“Like a number of other banks, we have temporarily closed some ATM vestibules overnight at certain New York City branch locations where we have seen repeat activity that could present a potentially dangerous situation for our customers or colleagues,” spokeswoman, Eleni Garbis said in a statement.

A spokesman for Chase, Jerry Dubrowski, said the situation is “fluid” and that the bank is “constantly evaluating the environment in a community.” His definition of "fluid" was not made clear but one can only imagine what Jerry meant.

Some Chase branches may close for a period of time and then reopen for full 24-hour access again, he said, adding that the limited hours apply to a minority of Chase branches in the city.

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Some banks have hired security guards to sit inside the vestibules in the early evening hours, Matt Roberts, president of the 17th Precinct Community Council, and adding that some homeless people have bank cards and can let themselves into the lobbies, but they rarely make withdrawals, only deposits.

Now with New York's illegal immigrant sanctuary city policy, the homeless problem may run amok if they run out of 5-Star hotels to house the illegals and they may end up seeking other places to crash and dump.

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San Francisco banning straws, banning free lunch, banning thought

San Francisco is having a phenomenal week. They've banned plastic straws to save the world from total annihilation and now they're banning free lunches to save restaurants.

It would be funny if it wasn't true.

President Trump referred to certain foreign countries as "S**t-holes. He was wrong to use that term but he certainly would be accurate if he referred to San Francisco as such.

While the city is concerned about the use of plastic straws destroying the environment, (one town is fining restaurant servers $1,000 or 6 months in jail for providing a straw and the same fine for every straw thereafter to a customer) they don't seem to care about the homelessness problem and the environment that is being ruined by the depositing of human feces and garbage by this population on the streets of their town.

The straw ban also prevents vendors from using takeout containers made with fluorinated chemicals while also preventing people with debilitating oral problems from drinking or eating liquified food. Screw 'em!

"The legislation prohibits eateries from using plastic anti-splashers, stirrers and other plastic items that environmentalists say are too small to be recycled properly," Newsmax reported. "Retailers would no longer be able to sell the items starting July 2019. In addition, food and drink vendors would be allowed to dispense cutlery, napkins, condiments and lids only on request or through self-service stations."

Feces on the streets, however, will remain intact.

"It's a movement not just happening in San Francisco but nationally and internationally," said Peter Gallotta, a moron who works for the city's Department of Environment. "The larger elephant in the room," he said, trying to sound original, "is the single-use disposable culture [how redundant] we find ourselves in, and straws are the epitome of this unnecessary daily waste."

The city will probably soon consider the banning of disposable diapers if this nonsense continues.

The statistic often cited that suggests Americans use 500 million straws per day is not only crazy, it's based on the research of a 9-year-old. With only about 300 million people living in the USA, everyone would have to use more than one straw per day on average.

As far as all plastic waste being dumped into the ocean, five countries are responsible: China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to a study by Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey. The United States ships much of our waste plastic to China for recycling and they reportedly dump it in the ocean.

But the nanny state isn't finished with merely a straw problem, man, they're upset with companies that provide their employees with free lunches. It's hurting the businesses of neighborhood eateries and they're complaining and might get their way.

It's possible that companies that provide free lunch want their employees happy and maybe not have to go out onto the streets where they then have to walk looking down to avoid human excrement. Plus, it would probably destroy their appetites anyway.

Straws are not the problem in San Francisco. According to Yahoo News, the city hands out an estimated 400,000 drug syringes every month to reduce HIV among drug users, they say, and out of that number, 245,000 syringes get properly discarded in the city's 13 syringe access and disposal sites. But the remaining 155,000 end up on the streets, sidewalks and parks, making the straw problem a non-issue.

The city spends about $30 million a year to clean human feces and syringes off the sidewalks, according to NBC News.

Now who in the world would want to walk the streets to go to lunch when they can stay at work and get it for free?

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Businesses leaving progressive, dangerous Portland

Portland, Oregon -- Columbia Sportswear is considering closing its downtown office in the Democratic-led town after multiple encounters of the homeless person kind have threatened their employees and caused other problems.

There have been car break-ins, human feces deposited by the doorsteps of the business, direct threats to employees and garbage strewn about.

The Oregonian had an op-ed piece this month in which Tim Boyle, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO, voiced his concerns over these conditions and questioned whether he made a mistake opening a headquarters for the company's Sorel footwear brand downtown. He called the situation "outrageous and unacceptable."

"In fact, I am so concerned about the safety of our employees at the Sorel headquarters that we are taking the next 90 days to re-evaluate our location decision," Boyle wrote.


After moving 50 employees downtown, they immediately reported being threatened and harassed by homeless people near the new location. 

Boyle wrote, "A few days ago, one of our employees had to run into traffic when a stranger outside our office followed her and threatened to kill her. On other occasions our employees have arrived at work only to be menaced by individuals camping in the doorway."

There have also been so many employee car break-ins, the company began to refer to parking downtown as its "laptop donor program."

What a yuk!

"Given these experiences, it is a relief when the only thing we are dealing with is the garbage and human waste by our front door. Think about that for a minute," Boyle wrote.

Other businesses, such as Judith Arnell Jewelers, has decided to close up shop after concerns of panhandling and safety of Arnell's employees and clients became too much.

"It's very difficult to do business here right now. Our customers are afraid to come in," Ms. Arnell said. She had been in business there for over 20 years, but the large decrease in sales due to the homeless population has sent her packing.

Anne Bocci, a boutique owner in the Pearl District was threatened by a man when she confronted him as he stole clothing from an outside rack.

"Everybody saw it and everybody called the police," she told Fox12. But she said the man came back later and threatened her life once more.

Boyle met with Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a progressive Democrat, with whom Boyle is a "big fan." 

A representative of Wheeler's office said the mayor is "dedicated to improving public safety," as attested to by the huge rise in homelessness and lack of public safety.

I suspect he condemns the current problem in the strongest possible terms.

"As we prepare for the holiday shopping season, the Mayor is dedicated to improving public safety in the downtown business district," the statement read. "People from around the region and beyond come Downtown for a great retail, culinary and cultural experience [if they can get past the odor emanating from the human excrement dumped liberally in doorways]. We are working with our partners in the business community to provide visitors a great experience this holiday season."

So consumers, don't shop online or cook at home . . .  come on down! It's worth the risk.

And don't forget--vote Democrat and never show 'em you're scared.



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