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It’s good to be you. https://pavementpieces.com/on-the-front-line-of-the-heroin-epidemic-in-washington-heights/ https://pavementpieces.com/on-the-front-line-of

by tomcam 5y ago

It’s good to be you. https://pavementpieces.com/on-the-front-line-of-the-heroin-epidemic-in-washington-heights/ https://pavementpieces.com/on-the-front-line-of-the-heroin-e... https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/rockaway-beach-needles-syringes-116-street-queens/1948525/ https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/rockaway-beach-needles... https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/nyc-drug-users-shoot-up-in-broad-daylight-in-midtown/ https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/nyc-drug-users-shoot-up-in-bro... https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/new-records-reveal-rampant-drug-use-at-bronx-park/ https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/new-records-reveal-rampant-dru... http://bronxink.org/2019/09/19/28351-a-zone-of-neglect/ http://bronxink.org/2019/09/19/28351-a-zone-of-neglect/ https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-are-nycs-poopiest-neighborhoods https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-are-nycs-poop...

woodruffw 5y ago
If you're trying to call me a liar, it's better to not be oblique. I've lived in three neighborhoods for my entire life: Bloomingdale (now called "Manhattan Valley"), South Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The only one that I regularly saw needles in was South Harlem, and that was only by one apartment where we had a guy dealing on the corner. That was a pretty unpleasant situation. I only saw needles once or twice in Bloomingdale, and I've yet to see them anywhere in my current parts of Brooklyn. As for the poop: NYC has a big dog poop problem, which is what that article is about. I don't think anybody has ever contested that.
- not_really 5y ago
  I'll call you a liar. Or at best, someone who could be more observant.
  - woodruffw 5y ago
    Of all of the positive and negative things I've been called in my life, "not observant" has never been one of them! We have crime here. But this isn't a superhero comic; it's just not an overriding feature of life. I'm sorry if that's difficult for you to believe.
- tomcam 5y ago
  Where on earth did you get liar? You just have a very different context from many of us. I worked three jobs for 30 years so my kids could live a sheltered life. Here’s an example of me not being oblique. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363040
  - woodruffw 5y ago
    That was how I read "it's good to be you." I apologize for the misinterpretation. I've said this in other threads: there is crime in NYC. It's a big city with a lot of people in it, and I am not pretending that it is a utopia. But it just isn't an overriding (or even pressing) feature of life here.
    - tomcam 5y ago
      It is if you’re paying rent for a storefront and junkies are blocking the door so customers can’t get in, the cops won’t do anything, and “nonviolent misdemeanors” aren’t prosecuted. Then it’s an overriding and pressing feature of your life.
      - woodruffw 5y ago
        Yes: if you're actually victimized, then it becomes an overriding and pressing feature of your life. But you're sidestepping the claim: it's just not that common here. I've never seen drug addicts block a storefront here. The closest thing I've seen to that is someone (and I really do mean one individual) try to panhandle in a restaurant. They were kicked out.
        tomcam 5y ago
        Murder and rape are down a few percent each. Almost everything else is skyrocketing. Robbery is up 15.8%. Felonious assault is up 13.8%. Grand larceny is up 18.6%. Grand larceny auto at 14.2%. Crime overall is up 11.2% in one year. That’s affecting a lot of people other than you. I find your dismissal of so many people’s misery to be callous at best. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr1103/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-october-2021 https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr1103/nypd-citywide-cri...
sam0x17 5y ago
If it's noteworthy enough to be in a news article when it happens, that sort of feeds into OP's point imo.

by tomcam 5y ago

woodruffw 5y ago

If you're trying to call me a liar, it's better to not be oblique. I've lived in three neighborhoods for my entire life: Bloomingdale (now called "Manhattan Valley"), South Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The only one that I regularly saw needles in was South Harlem, and that was only by one apartment where we had a guy dealing on the corner. That was a pretty unpleasant situation. I only saw needles once or twice in Bloomingdale, and I've yet to see them anywhere in my current parts of Brooklyn. As for the poop: NYC has a big dog poop problem, which is what that article is about. I don't think anybody has ever contested that.

not_really 5y ago
I'll call you a liar. Or at best, someone who could be more observant.
- woodruffw 5y ago
  Of all of the positive and negative things I've been called in my life, "not observant" has never been one of them! We have crime here. But this isn't a superhero comic; it's just not an overriding feature of life. I'm sorry if that's difficult for you to believe.
tomcam 5y ago
Where on earth did you get liar? You just have a very different context from many of us. I worked three jobs for 30 years so my kids could live a sheltered life. Here’s an example of me not being oblique. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363040
- woodruffw 5y ago
  That was how I read "it's good to be you." I apologize for the misinterpretation. I've said this in other threads: there is crime in NYC. It's a big city with a lot of people in it, and I am not pretending that it is a utopia. But it just isn't an overriding (or even pressing) feature of life here.
  - tomcam 5y ago
    It is if you’re paying rent for a storefront and junkies are blocking the door so customers can’t get in, the cops won’t do anything, and “nonviolent misdemeanors” aren’t prosecuted. Then it’s an overriding and pressing feature of your life.
    - woodruffw 5y ago
      Yes: if you're actually victimized, then it becomes an overriding and pressing feature of your life. But you're sidestepping the claim: it's just not that common here. I've never seen drug addicts block a storefront here. The closest thing I've seen to that is someone (and I really do mean one individual) try to panhandle in a restaurant. They were kicked out.
      - tomcam 5y ago
        Murder and rape are down a few percent each. Almost everything else is skyrocketing. Robbery is up 15.8%. Felonious assault is up 13.8%. Grand larceny is up 18.6%. Grand larceny auto at 14.2%. Crime overall is up 11.2% in one year. That’s affecting a lot of people other than you. I find your dismissal of so many people’s misery to be callous at best. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr1103/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-october-2021 https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr1103/nypd-citywide-cri...

sam0x17 5y ago

If it's noteworthy enough to be in a news article when it happens, that sort of feeds into OP's point imo.