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Post by ellie on Dec 7, 2023 15:39:24 GMT
I’m just home from five days in New York. We did some great things such as walking the length of Highline, visiting MoMA, seeing a show on Broadway (Hades Town) to name but a few. However I felt that NY overall had deteriorated significantly since my last visit there ten years ago. People off their heads on Fenatyl roaming the streets, many Homeless people in parks etc, lots of empty shop fronts on 5th Avenue dues to closures, much fewer holiday lights and decorations in evidence. All in all an overwhelmingly sad feeling of a great city in decline and of many people just living very desperate lives.
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Dec 7, 2023 19:52:54 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Dec 7, 2023 19:52:54 GMT
I haven't been to NYC in years.
It's a shame that it has deteriorated so. A lot of larger cities have suffered the same fate, unfortunately. Homelessness, poverty, drug abuse and the emptying out of mental health facilities have all exacerbated the problem.
It's a very complicated issue.
Taxpayers deserve safe streets, secure parks, to be unafraid to use public libraries, public transportation and such.
Right now in my small city (pop. 72,000) there is a discussion going on about the code of behaviour for our public library.
There are some who are pushing very hard for the homeless to be allowed to sleep in the library during the hours it is open. The staff want to be able to ask then to leave. Homeless advocates say that they should not be booted out.
But if they allowed to stay how many of the general public (whose taxes fund the library) will feel like the library is no longer a place for them?
But homeless advocates say to kick them out is discrimination.
I don't know the answer. All I know is that I used to LOVE going to the library. But nowadays not so much.
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