We’re thinking, of course, of folks who live near Washington Square Park who now have to put up with loud late-night raves and of the mom-and-pop merchants of Fordham Road in The Bronx long besieged by illegal street peddlers (at least until Post coverage prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio to act).
On a larger scale, the victims include the law-abiding majority in
every neighborhood rocked by rising shootings and gang crime — violence
that’s been enabled by years of city and state legislators passing laws
that restrict policing and make criminal behavior easier to get away
with.
Whether executives like de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo or
legislators like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader
Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their Democratic majorities, New York’s
electeds can’t (or won’t) stand up for New York’s stakeholders — the
people who do right — against all those who threaten public order and
safety.
As ever, the better-off see the least of it: High earners pay to live
in doorman buildings to keep the chaos at bay; more-profitable
businesses hire private guards to secure their ’hoods — and for workers
to keep their streets cleaner, too, when the Sanitation Department can’t
manage it. Heck, it’s private donations to the Central Park Conservancy
that keep the city’s gem greenspace from degrading.
Meanwhile, those with more modest stakes, like Fordham Road
businesses, suffer most from government’s failure to do its most basic
jobs.
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