New York's subways will no longer be mobile homes for the homeless
New Mayor Eric Adams promises to restore safety and order to the city's public transit system by removing the homeless people who camp out in its subway stations and bunk down on its trains.
Public spaces -- government owned-and-operated spaces -- are where you find most homeless people.
On sidewalks, in public parks, under bridges, in public squares, on public transit -- that's where the homeless, petty criminals, crazy people and drug salesmen "live" or work.
In New York City and places like LA and SF, spineless and misguided elected officials have allowed these troubled and tragic human beings to ruin parts of their downtowns, scare off visitors, create uncivilized and often dangerous 'neighborhoods' and make public transit a risky and uncomfortable ride -- especially for women and old folks.
In New York transit officials and politicians have allowed the city's subways to devolve in ways that are the steel-wheeled equivalent of LA's tent-covered sidewalks.
But it looks like the city's new un-woke mayor is actually serious about policing and restoring basic order to a public transit system that has been infamously dirty, dangerous and mismanaged for, oh, let's say, three quarters of a century.
Mayor Adams has a daunting task. Weekday ridership numbers on subways are about 52 percent of what they were before the covid lockdowns.
It's going to take a bunch of miracles to get all those missing riders to return to the subways in the Post-Covid Age. Evicting the homeless from their encampments in subway stations and not allowing them to bunk down on the trains during the day and night is a long-overdue start.
This excellent Daily Mail story — especially the photos and video of the homeless residents who call the New York subway system home — is a good example of the kind of shocking journalism the NY Times is never likely to provide.