De Blasio plans to open homeless shelter on ‘Billionaire’s Row’

[edpc]

We're talking about NYC mayors here. Not national politics. Rudy was the awesomist mayor that town ever saw. I couldn't believe the speed in which he turned that city from a dangerous hellhole to a safe clean place to be.

He did and a lot of that was due to his stances on gun laws and stop and frisk.  Let's not pretend we'd find positions like that from a Democrat anything other than a blatant trampling on Constitutional rights.

[WingNot]

Like the days of Stomping at the Savoy
Now we "freak," oh, what a joy
Just come on down to the 54
Find your spot out on the floor

Ah, freak out!
Le freak, c'est chic
Freak out!

Thanks for reminding how much Disco Sucked monkey testicles.

[Victoria33]

She thought you were cops.

@Frank Cannon

Bob was by himself.  Maybe you are right - she didn't ask for money, said she had no place to stay that night, and that would not be solicitation.  But if she took the money, thinking Bob was a cop, that WOULD be solicitation, except sex was never brought up.  What you say must be it.  Not many people would offer someone a free hundred dollar bill and that made her think he was a cop.

[endicom]

Agreed.  In NYC, he's as good as you ever are going to get.  NYC isn't like the rest of the country.

He was about as fiscally conservative as was possible.

When mayor, he had a weekly radio show and was pretty good. He would talk and then take calls. Callers were sometimes small landlords. One landlord was a woman with what I took to be an Eastern European accent. She complained about the housing courts letting bad tenants get away with everything. Giuliani knew all about that but had no authority over the housing courts.

She kept pressing him until he said, "Here's where I get into trouble." He then explained that the housing courts were dominated by leftists, some outright Marxists, and, again, that he had no authority there. She obviously knew what the housing courts were but apparently just wanted to hear him say it.

He was up against Deep City and it's a wonder that he got anything done.

[Frank Cannon]

He did and a lot of that was due to his stances on gun laws and stop and frisk.  Let's not pretend we'd find positions like that from a Democrat anything other than a blatant trampling on Constitutional rights.

I don't know if you had the pleasure of being in NYC in the 70's or 80's but it was a level of hell that's hard to describe unless you were there. Hell, there was a pamphlet that told visitors not to go out on the streets after 6pm because you would, not might, get mugged or worse. I once got sucked into going to see an awful play that will remain nameless and as we were walking up to the Winter Garden, I watched some shitbag get a BJ from some fat black whore in an alcove in the middle of a sunny day.

[edpc]

I don't know if you had the pleasure of being in NYC in the 70's or 80's but it was a level of hell that's hard to describe unless you were there. Hell, there was a pamphlet that told visitors not to go out on the streets after 6pm because you would, not might, get mugged or worse. I once got sucked into going to see an awful play that will remain nameless and as we were walking up to the Winter Garden, I watched some shitbag get a BJ from some fat black whore in an alcove in the middle of a sunny day.

How much did you have to pay to watch?

[WingNot]

Coming back by popular de blasio programs.

[Frank Cannon]

How much did you have to pay to watch?

It was during the Koch years so all public services were free.

[edpc]

Coming back by popular de blasio programs.

Where the hell else is Travis Bickle going to take Betsy for a date?

[Sanguine]

A number of years ago, the Austin City Council decided that the "homeless" should be housed 1 block away from the music (and drinking) district and conference center of Austin, Sixth Street.  So, now if you go to that area, there are blocks and blocks of "homeless" living on the sidewalks, some with tents and stolen grocery carts, all with trash and chaos.  Crime has gone way up and I don't even go down there in daylight. 

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2677272,-97.738059,3a,75y,65.72h,91.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgGfH9gAmYhTZRIEc8oxLfw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[WingNot]

An Austin panhandler can make 40 to 50K tax free is he has a good spot at the end of an I-35 Off Ramp

[Frank Cannon]

An Austin panhandler can make 40 to 50K tax free is he has a good spot at the end of an I-35 Off Ramp

That location makes the commute to work a breeze.

[WingNot]

That location makes the commute to work a breeze.

Yep.  They park their BMW's down the block and walk to their intersection with a freshly lettered "Help Me" sign.

[dfwgator]

Coming back by popular de blasio programs.

Going to need another "Real Rain".

[Oceander]

Coming back by popular de blasio programs.

Probably not.  The laws against these types of businesses are written fairly robustly and have survived numerous challenges, so at least in Manhattan it’s unlikely these places will come back. Illegal versions of these businesses might start cropping up more in the outer boroughs, and there De Blasio is likely to “encourage” the cops to turn a blind eye. 

[Restored]

Yep.  They park their BMW's down the block and walk to their intersection with a freshly lettered "Help Me" sign.

Don't forget "God bless" and "veteran".

They can count on about $80-100 on a good day where I grew up. People have become numb to them. The guys who get the good money have a route. They work areas for short amounts of time. Liquor stores are good places if you tell the marks you are trying to get enough for a bottle.
One of the "Need food" guys tried to sell me a $10 McDonalds gift certificate for $5. People kept handing him those things. It's hard time now though. Fewer people carry cash.

[Free Vulcan]

Taking a trick out of the old Marxist hat. Sow seeds of social chaos and disruption, sit back and wait for things to get ripe, never let a crisis go to waste.

[WingNot]

Don't forget "God bless" and "veteran".

They can count on about $80-100 on a good day where I grew up. People have become numb to them. The guys who get the good money have a route. They work areas for short amounts of time. Liquor stores are good places if you tell the marks you are trying to get enough for a bottle.
One of the "Need food" guys tried to sell me a $10 McDonalds gift certificate for $5. People kept handing him those things. It's hard time now though. Fewer people carry cash.

Last time I was in Austin I rolled down my window and the guy scurries over with his bucket out and I asked him; "Do have Square?"   I don't know what I would have done if he had said Yes!!!

[mountaineer]

Taking a trick out of the old Marxist hat. Sow seeds of social chaos and disruption, sit back and wait for things to get ripe, never let a crisis go to waste.

Maybe Rahm will do it in Chicago, too, just for fun.

[dfwgator]

Don't forget "God bless" and "veteran".
 

[edpc]

Don't forget "God bless" and "veteran".

Hey, don't make fun.  That's brought in $88K a quarter for 20 years......somewhere.  I'm trying to recall the place.   

[WingNot]

I have read that Before it became a weird, garish tourist center with a massive store exclusively for idiots to buy trendy things, Times Square was not a place to take a visiting family.  What is now the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. was even less appetizing than it is currently, because dudes were quietly jacking off in there. In fact, dudes were quietly jacking off a lot of places in Midtown back then.

As most famously seen in Taxi Driver, Times Square of the '70s was full of seedy porn theaters. When you paid to see a woman's dead eyes look into your own, it was at a peep show, not Madame Tussauds. On Broadway, instead of The Lion King, there was a pimp who also called himself the Lion King, but refused to sing.

[Fishrrman]

Frank Cannon wrote:
"We're talking about NYC mayors here. Not national politics. Rudy was the awesomist mayor that town ever saw. I couldn't believe the speed in which he turned that city from a dangerous hellhole to a safe clean place to be."

Right on, Frank.

Some of the milquetoasts here should have seen the South Bronx back in the days of Abe Beame. I did, I used to work at Oak Point freight yard and go to the Hunts Point market delivering refrigerator cars into the night.

Some of the hookers there walked around naked (that's spelled n.a.k.e.d) on the street in the daylight. Cops didn'donuffin' back then.

It got cleaned up a little during the Koch administration (he was sumthin' of a public prude), but after Rudy came -- that stuff was gone.