Times Square back to the bad old days: ‘It’s a sh-thole’

[Kamaji]

Times Square back to the bad old days: ‘It’s a sh-thole’

By Georgia Worrell   
August 26, 2023

You’re not in Disney anymore.

Times Square is looking a lot like its bad old self, with vagrants, boozy migrants, junkies, and scofflaws making the Crossroads of the World look more like the third world, infuriating those who played an important role in its cleanup.

On three separate days over the past week, The Post saw junkies brazenly smoking crack pipes on West 43rd Street, drug dealers peddling their wares within eyeshot of cops, hobos conked out wherever they can find a spot, and scores of aimless migrants loitering the day away.

“A lot of people are worried about [Times Square] collapsing. And unless they start getting it together for a rebuild, it might actually collapse,” said William Bratton, the NYPD commissioner who helped then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani clean up the area in the 1990s.

“We had a lot more to work with than the current commissioner and the mayor have in 2023,” Bratton added. “There was a lot more of a criminal justice system back then. The courts, district attorneys, and the police were pretty much united about doing something about crime in Times Square. So you had a collaboration that is not in place today.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/times-square-overrun-by-squalor-crime-its-a-sh-thole/

[DB]

They voted for it. They got it.

[Kamaji]

They voted for it. They got it.

True; however, it still has a long way to go before it gets down to the depths it was at when Giuliani first became Mayor.

[libertybele]

With ILLEGALS pouring into the city it will inevitably get worse and at the rate things are going this situation will soon be commonplace in most major cities unless somehow we see a strong reversal on the immigration policies that are being implemented under Brandon. 

[Kamaji]

With ILLEGALS pouring into the city it will inevitably get worse and at the rate things are going this situation will soon be commonplace in most major cities unless somehow we see a strong reversal on the immigration policies that are being implemented under Brandon. 

Most of the illegals will either head upstate, or will head out to places like Hemptstead and Wyandanch on Long Island.

[Gefn]

True; however, it still has a long way to go before it gets down to the depths it was at when Giuliani first became Mayor.

Truth That. The closest thing to nakedness and what not in Times Square is the Naked Cowboy

[Gefn]

Most of the illegals will either head upstate, or will head out to places like Hemptstead and Wyandanch on Long Island.

Or Jersey.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

True; however, it still has a long way to go before it gets down to the depths it was at when Giuliani first became Mayor.

I grew up in the 80's in CT so we'd take field trips down there to Manhattan all the time. My word do I remember what NYC used to be like. Young 'uns today have no idea.

[Kamaji]

Or Jersey.

Yup.