Mister De Blasio’s neighborhood…
Much as we chastised Nanny Bloomberg, he, and before him Rudy Giuliani, believed in keeping a check on ‘quality of life’ crimes. Now, they are exploding once again, as they did under David Dinkins.
Via NY Post:
The glass facade of Cooper Union’s $111 million academic building offers a remarkable view — of a back alley packed with vagrants.
“I have seen drug deals, public urination, defecation, masturbation in broad daylight in the Taras Shevchenko alley,” a Cooper Union faculty member told The Post.“It’s a place where many homeless congregate to sleep — right in front of a church and between a high school and a college,” the faculty member added.
Students, visitors to the East Village building’s multiple art galleries and even small kids who attend Preschool of the Arts housed at Cooper Union are greeted daily by a motley crew of drifters who bunk down on the pavement along Taras Shevchenko Place from about sunset through the morning rush hour.