Post by Clipper on Apr 27, 2020 9:29:21 GMT -5
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The NYC subway stations were already home to many of the homeless taking shelter from the weather outside and seeking a safe place to sleep, but now it is the trains that have become rolling homeless shelters. As long as I have been going to NYC doorways and alleys have been littered with trash, used condoms from the prostitution, feces, vomit, and urine. We used to park our buses on the lower West side on side streets. It was not unusual to see feces and paper in doorways or a homeless person curled up on a sidewalk or bench sleeping. At least outside you had the opportunity to give them wide berth and walk around them. On the train, when you enter, the doors slam closed and the train gets under motion, leaving you trapped and struggling to run a gauntlet of homeless people, their trash and their waste to find a safe place to breathe or stand. I can't even imagine how nasty it is now. I would not travel any farther South than Newburg anytime in the near future.
Tourism is going to continue to suffer from many months or even years due to the pandemic and the resulting necessity to social distance. Those that normally travel downstate to see a Yankee game or to shop are probably not going to go. Anyone who would sit in a theater to watch a Broadway show would literally be putting their lives at risk. Just riding a crowded charter bus from upstate to the city would be a risky proposition.
The NYC subway stations were already home to many of the homeless taking shelter from the weather outside and seeking a safe place to sleep, but now it is the trains that have become rolling homeless shelters. As long as I have been going to NYC doorways and alleys have been littered with trash, used condoms from the prostitution, feces, vomit, and urine. We used to park our buses on the lower West side on side streets. It was not unusual to see feces and paper in doorways or a homeless person curled up on a sidewalk or bench sleeping. At least outside you had the opportunity to give them wide berth and walk around them. On the train, when you enter, the doors slam closed and the train gets under motion, leaving you trapped and struggling to run a gauntlet of homeless people, their trash and their waste to find a safe place to breathe or stand. I can't even imagine how nasty it is now. I would not travel any farther South than Newburg anytime in the near future.
Tourism is going to continue to suffer from many months or even years due to the pandemic and the resulting necessity to social distance. Those that normally travel downstate to see a Yankee game or to shop are probably not going to go. Anyone who would sit in a theater to watch a Broadway show would literally be putting their lives at risk. Just riding a crowded charter bus from upstate to the city would be a risky proposition.
Homelessness is here to stay. Those folks are not vermin and certainly don't need to be eradicated. It is the homeless PROBLEM that needs to be eradicated. They are human beings down on their luck. Some through no fault of their own and some due to their own simple poor choices, addictions, or just a lack of ambition. NO ONE in America deserves to just be abandoned as long was this country has money to be providing aid, food, and shelter to similar individuals in third world countries. In my humble (or not so humble) opinion NO ONE in America deserves to be abandoned while the country is giving aid to those who are illegally entering and invading the US.
