NYC park near Cooper Union turning into ‘disgusting’ area filled with rats, homelessBy Dean Balsamini and Helayne Seidman
July 30, 2022
An East Village park near prestigious Cooper Union and across from luxury condos has become a trash-strewn, vermin-filled, homeless hangout, residents said.
“It’s disgusting!” Candy Schulman, 69, a 28-year neighborhood resident, told The Post of Cooper Triangle on Third Avenue.
“I feel outraged about the garbage and the rats. Every bench is taken up by the homeless and nobody is doing anything about it.”
Stuyvesant Town dweller John Murtha, 70, who walks his dog near the park, was equally angry.
“New York City is a Democratic blue state hellhole. It’s the bowels of hell,” he fumed.
The Triangle is located just across the street from the Grace Church School and the pre-war Carl Fischer Building, which was erected in 1926 and converted in 2001 into 26 condos whose price tags range from $2 million to $16 million.
“It’s important for the park to be a valuable space and resource for the whole neighborhood,” said one 20-year resident of the condos who declined to give his name, “and it needs to be a clean and safe space.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/30/cooper-square-triangle-turning-into-skid-row/
