This is one of those issues where I say we all band together and go full Karen as a community. It is so against the norms we've all agreed upon to live in this crowded city together we just cannot keep sliding downwards like this. I've been here 11 years and 100% of the "smoking a cig or other substance in a train car" incidents I've witnessed have all occurred within the last year and a half or so.

Say something in person if you deem it safe to do so (big judgement call here, do your best) or alert the conductor.

Quick reminder that anyone who questioned the concept of sanctuary cities was labeled racist and a Trumper by the msm and likely you guys here in this subreddit.

Get any indie film producer on the horn they will feed a hundred people with just as many dollars. These amounts are so insulting.

No one in government is ever afraid for their job.

I mean it’s backwards from what I’ve experienced. Rich people seem to do whatever the fuck they want.

When you hit a 90 year old with a metal pipe that's attempted murder. Put em away forever.

“Blocking.”

There are lots of people looking for places to live that don’t give a shit about those issues. As long as the buildings can be made safe to live in, the mayors office needs to put any zoning issues to the front of their docket.

Because….

Let’s say we did “vote for mental health”…what would you say is the first thing involved in treatment?

Might it be…removing them from the sidewalk and giving them medicine that could bring them back to reality?

They’re saying they’re crazy and sleeping on a sidewalk.

No idea how you think reducing rents by a few hundred dollars is the better solution to emptying public spaces of people immediately dangerous to themselves and others. Like it boggles my mind.

These folks have had autonomy throughout their addictions and mental illnesses. It has landed them in a terrible spot. A bed in a mental institution in the year 2022 is 1000x more humane it’s like I’m in the Twilight zone having to advocate for this and get treated like I’m pushing lobotomies or something.

What countries are you referring to, specifically?

We were talking about grand central

This is a perfect example of policies being too lax (sleep here all day, go through trash, whatever!) until the inevitable harsh over correction.

Curious who made this call and why…if I had to guess it’s similar to why some theft prone Walgreens have security guards that don’t stop you from stealing - theft insurance requires a guard but liability insurance does not want that guard to lay a finger on anyone. This is Grand Central’s version of deodorant locked behind plastic.

You mean they just don’t let anyone use it at all? Even if you’ve bought something?

Haven’t been there since I last had folks in town but typically the tables in the food court downstairs were…60%+ occupied by homeless. Plus the few rummaging through the bins.

If they’ve corrected that, perhaps during / post covid that’s great.

>Sam M., who works in finance and was waiting for that same train to Boston, referred to hostile architecture as "a liberal arts term," but agreed with the premise and its presence in Moynihan

I'm with Sam M. Call it whatever you want at least it's not like the downstairs food court at Grand Central.

>Take care of people's most basic needs and you'd see a huge reduction in crime

This looks to me like a very good example of logic from someone who does not live in the real world.

We have a huge safety net and it's getting bigger. It would take too long to explain how bloated and unaudited our social benefit systems are and list the examples of people who don't need it receiving help and sitting on their ass. Not to mention in cities like SF where you are definitely fully taken care of if you're in bad shape, crime is worse than ever.

What's really funny about this is you claim cracking down on crime doesn't change things at all when NYC is the way it is today versus 10/20/30 years ago because of drastically different policies from different administrations having an effect.

I passed out candy on Halloween in bk this year. I saw not one, not two, but three little kids that belonged to black/brown parents dressed as cops. One was specifically NYPD. But yeah they're just cowering in fear every day and hate NYPD /s

Has it occurred to you that when a young man or woman are being encouraged to contribute to a crime (shoplifting / raiding a store) or joining a gang, you know, before they have ever committed a crime aka the "root", if the message is "you will be caught and go to jail" and not "people don't care, won't report the crime, and the cops won't arrest you and the judge won't prosecute" that mayyyyybe that could be, oh I don't know, discouraging people to ever get into that kind of crowd???

Or are you one of those insisting folks raiding Rite Aid need bread for their family?

The countries where citizens are too afraid or jaded to bother reporting a crime are...a bit different than here.

Paste any article address into archive.is to go around it.

My palms are seriously sweating after seeing that.

These business owners are what’s on my mind when I picture a better city and when I walk into a voting booth. I have yet to encounter a politician who seems intent on helping them.

Note* Helping them is not writing them one time checks with my money. It is permanently getting rid of the red tape & fees involved in starting / running a business, along with legislation against these ridiculous credit card fees and things like that. Real action.

A) 1000% agreed on the parents

B) Why aren't these kids held back?

C) Learning to read started in Kindergarten for me and I knew how to sound out any grade appropriate word by 1st/2nd grade so I guess I'm wondering what's going on in those classrooms to get a kid like this in grade 11.