New York
The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.-Madonna
“One million people” have fled the city and tri-state area “in the last nine years” alone, Jack Kelly observes at Forbes. “Almost 300 people are moving out” each day. Why the mass exodus?
The “schools, bridges, tunnels, trains, airports and hospitals are falling apart.” Residents face “exorbitant taxes.” City streets are “crowded and dirty.”
-New York Post Editorial Board 
Well, a new Empire Center for Public Policy report notes that taxpayers have been fleeing some states for others. And New York is seeing more taxpayers move away than any other state. The state’s had Democratic governors since 2007 — and has out-of-control government spending, high tax burdens, over-regulation, uneven job growth and fleeing residents.
Indeed, the five states with the highest out-migration have Democratic governors, while the five states attracting the most new taxpayers are run by GOP governors.
-New York Post Editorial Board
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing to fine businesses that do not address customers by their “preferred name, pronoun and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regardless of the individual’s sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the individual’s identification.”
The NYC Commission on Human Rights can penalize offenders up to $250,000.
-Jonah Goldberg
Liberal, Tax, Government, Incompetence, Oops, Economy
New York State accounted for the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010, with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period, according to the Tax Foundation. Over that decade the state gained 2.1 million, so net migration amounted to 1.3 million, representing a loss of $45.6 billion in income.
Democrat, Liberal, Tax, Government, Incompetence, Oops, Jobs
ALBANY - Escape from New York is not just a movie - it's also a state of mind. A new Marist College poll shows that 36% of New Yorkers under the age of 30 are planning to leave New York within the next five years - and more than a quarter of all adults are planning to bolt the Empire State... Of those preparing to leave, 62% cite economic reasons like cost of living, taxes - and a lack of jobs.
Democrat, Liberal, Tax, Financial, Narrative, Oops
The city’s hedge-fund executives are flying south — and it’s not for vacation. An increasing number of financial firms, especially private equity and hedge funds, are fed up with New York’s sky-high city and state tax rates and are relocating to the business-friendly climate in Florida’s Palm Beach County. And they’re being welcomed with open arms — officials in Palm Beach recently opened an entire office dedicated to luring finance hot shots down south.
Time to move out of NYC...
I've been living in New York City for about 10 years. It has definitely gotten worse and there's no end in sight.
My favorite park is Madison Square Park. About a month ago a 19-year-old girl was shot and killed across the street.
I don't think I have an answer but I do think it's clear: it's time to move out of NYC.
Democrat, Liberal, Hate, Government, Character, Brilliance, Smears, Demagoguery, Tolerance, Diversity, Stereotyping, Bigotry, Arrogance
"Who are they?" he said. "Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are."
Barely two weeks after the New York State legislature passed a state budget that saddled the wealthiest New Yorkers with an effective tax rate north of 50%, the highest in the nation... more financial firms and their wealthiest employees are bidding the Big Apple adieu.
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Guggenheim's Scott Minerd was preparing to move to Miami as the firm moves to dedicate more resources to South Florida.
-Tyler Durden
Democrat, Liberal, Tax, Incompetence, Financial, Oops
Taxpaying New Yorkers are leaving in droves for other states. In 2014, 126,000 tax filers fled to other places in the US — more people than in any other state, according to a study posted on newgeography.com. The Empire State also lost the most “high earners,” who reported making more than $200,000 a year.
Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Oops
State Senator Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara plan to make an online questionnaire available for N.Y. citizens, to find out why people continue to move out of the state...
“When enough people who can afford to leave New York State are gone, who will be left to pay for the infrastructure, health care, schools and other necessities?” said Sen. Tedisco. “This is a bi-partisan effort to shine the light on this problem that’s causing people to leave our Upstate communities and to find out why the Empire State is fast becoming the ‘Empty State’ so we can change the agenda to keep them here,” he said.
I loved New York so much, but loving it over the past two years has felt like pleading the case for your terrible boyfriend to your friends. “He takes a little while to open up. Really, he’s not so bad.” You hand over your best picture. “That’s him? You’re putting up with all of it for this?”
I will—I already do—miss my glorious, funky, singular New York. But the point of New York was its freedom. I want my kids to feel the way I felt in my hometown in the ‘90s. So we’re moving to Florida.
-Karol Markowicz
Please Come Back to NY...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is begging wealthy New Yorkers to return to the city to save it from economic ruin while fighting off calls from other lawmakers to raise their taxes - a move he fears could permanently drive the top 1 percent out of the city.
Leaving New York...
In the summer of 2012, I moved to New York City, law degree in hand but with no intent to practice law. I’d traded a cushy associateship at a large law firm for a chance to work on the Wall Street Journal opinion pages as a “fellow” (read: glorified intern). I thought I’d stay in the city for a long time, and almost did.
But this week, I resolved that I’ve had enough—that my family deserves better than what this city’s atrocious, deep-blue leadership has to offer.
Public Transportation
President Obama’s infatuation with the effort to create another government-subsidized rail entitlement means the rest of the country is on the hook for at least half of this still considerable sum. Retirees in Florida and schoolteachers in Mississippi, who will never ride California’s train, will be forced to pay for it anyway.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Government, Incompetence, Convict, Theft
A New York City man who’s now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting subway commuters since the state’s new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year. He’s been released each time without having to post bail under New York’s new bail reform law...
“Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry yelled to reporters Thursday outside the NYPD Transit District 1 headquarters in the Columbus Circle station before officers transported him to Manhattan Central Booking. “It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!”
Democrat, Liberal, Narrative, Oops
In a report scheduled to be released on Monday, the city comptroller’s office found that large percentages of New Yorkers earned high incomes and low incomes, leaving a smaller middle class than in the nation as a whole. “There is some evidence of the kind of common worry that New York has a weak middle,” said Frank Braconi, chief economist in the comptroller’s office.
Scenes From Blue America
Rat seen 'passed out' on NYC sidewalk holding empty Hennessy bottle; photo goes viralhttps://t.co/vXFmGQUOSx
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) February 15, 2019
Liberal, Degeneracy
A recent survey by Travel + Leisure magazine ranked New York the dirtiest American city. The online poll of 50,000 people found that rats, funky odors and trash heaps were the main factors for the dubious distinction. If there isn't enough dirt for you, it also "won" the survey for being the loudest and rudest city in the country. It also ranked worst for affordability.
Liberal, Degeneracy, Metaphor
“I see about 20 a day,” a man in Washington Heights told 1010 WINS’ John Montone. One woman said rats have infested her building on 154th Street, where one rodent bit a neighbor’s daughter. “They’re taking over, it’s madness,” she said. A sanitation worker said he has to shake and kick bags of garbage to scatter the rats for fear they’ll jump up and bite him.
Liberal, Degeneracy, Metaphor
It was seven minutes in hell! A nasty rat was an unwelcome commuter on a rush-hour A train yesterday morning — terrorizing straphangers during the agonizingly long nonstop ride from Harlem to Midtown. What started as a typical sleepy end-of-the-week ride between 125th Street and Columbus Circle morphed into an urban nightmare when a woman listening to an iPod felt a scratching on her leg at about 8 a.m. “I started feeling down my leg and I knew there was something furry and large crawling on my leg,” said Ana Vargas, 40, a Times Square hotel worker from Yonkers.
Incompetence, Degeneracy, Waste
Rat infestations are a common problem in the city, but one resident is taking matters into his own hands. Joseph Bolanos, president of the West 76th Street Block Association, installed rat-crossing signs in his neighborhood on the Upper West Side... "Now it's gotten to the point where people walk at night, and you'll hear screams and shrieks because they get startled by the amount of rats that are running across the sidewalk," he said.
Scofflaws of New York, rejoice — the City Council has cleared the way for you to litter, loiter and pee in the street to your heart’s content... The disgusting and disturbing acts that the council voted to decriminalize include drinking alcohol out of a paper bag, lurking in parks after hours, urinating in the street and making enough of a racket to violate the noise code.
Funny
In the video (posted below), the rat runs across the aisle and climbs up onto seats, before eventually crawling up the leg of a sleeping man and onto his face.
Government, Incompetence, Funny, Oops
According to local reports, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene headquarters, which cost taxpayers $316 million, is overrun by bed bugs. The building is 21 floors, and five of those are home to a bed bug infestation. That’s no shock, since the city itself has been ranked the worst in the nation when it comes to bed bugs. This is the second time in under a year that bed bugs have been found in the facility, which is only three years old.
Government, Incompetence
Has your street been cleared yet? Turns out the city's cleanup workers aren't really sure. The New York Times talked to the city's Department of Sanitation today and found that the city's method of tracking street maintenance during snowstorms is (surprise!) "notably incomplete and potentially misleading," and makes it almost impossible to compare the city's clean-up efforts with previous storms.
Liberal, Character, Sex, Degeneracy, Oops, Healthcare
The study surveyed the city’s 181 ZIP codes for rates of HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and hepatitis B, as well as two non-sexually-transmitted diseases – hepatitis C and tuberculosis. The diseases often occur among the same populations, the study noted. The study said 33 percent of all the ZIP codes in New York City were in the top quintile for multiple sexually-transmitted diseases during a survey taken in 2010.
Humans and rats have been living side-by-side for thousands of years in a kind of uneasy truce, but Animal Planet has named New York City the worst rat city in the world. Rats in New York have been known to overrun restaurants after hours, crawl up sewer pipes and enter apartments through toilets. -Alex Greig
Liberal, Degeneracy
Tourists visiting some of New York's most prestigious hotels have reported being bitten by bed bugs despite their five star surroundings. Guests at the Waldorf Astoria and Marriott Marquis hotel are among those to have been affected by the infestation. Reports of bed bugs in the city's hotels have jumped by 44 per cent over the past year. According to the Bed Bug Registry, which lists reports of alleged incidents, there are almost 6,000 incidents in their databases relating to New York.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Crime, Government, Greed, Justice, Corruption
Albany: Almost a quarter of the state Senate's Democratic conference was in the FBI's cross hairs last year, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday. Last summer, federal investigators asked state Sen. Shirley Huntley to invite six Democratic colleagues to her Queens home and record their conversations... Prosecutors have already indicted two of the taped senators, John Sampson of Brooklyn and Malcolm Smith of Queens, but the memo listed four more colleagues: Eric Adams and Velmanette Montgomery of Brooklyn, Jose Peralta of Queens and Ruth Hassell-Thompson of Mount Vernon. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the situation "complicated, but basically all bad." "I'm just happy that all of this is coming to light, and we're working out the bad apples," said Sen. Tony Avella, D-Queens. "Let everybody wear a wire. It really is the tip of the iceberg — whether it's taking a bribe or pushing a bill for a campaign contribution, it's all unethical."
Liberal, Union, Government, Incompetence, Financial, Education, Waste, Corruption, Jobs
In New York City public schools, more than 1,000 teachers who have lost their teaching positions still receive their salaries. According to a new agreement between the teachers union and the NYC department of education, they are even getting a raise and retroactive pay...
Several years ago, New York schools received much attention regarding their “rubber room” policy. Reassignment centers, otherwise known as “rubber rooms,” were places where the city sent teachers accused of incompetence or misconduct... Administrators abolished rubber rooms in 2010, but “the ATR is a little bit like the holdover of the rubber room,” said Daniel DiSalvo, Manhattan Institute senior fellow.
New York City’s Public Schools ...
"In my 20 years working for the Board of Ed, I’ve never seen such a disregard for the rules — and human decency — as I’m seeing now."
Liberal, Union, Incompetence, Education, Waste
The ATR is comprised of teachers who literally have no classroom for one reason or another. Due to a labor contract stipulation, they can’t be fired or laid off, and continue to draw the same salaries as full-time teachers. They’re put into the ATR pool, where they may be assigned to work as substitutes, clerks, or perhaps to do nothing at all.
Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Oops, Education
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday. When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade. They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.
Liberal, Crime, Sex, Degeneracy, Education, Waste, Vandalism
A former guidance counselor at a Queens elementary school had feces and urine dumped in her office after she complained about randy staffers who had sex romps between classes, according to a shocking lawsuit. Deborah Berger, 65, says in the suit that after she complained to principal Robert Wojnarowski, he ratted her out to her horny coworkers, who made her life hell. The horrors included dirt being dumped on her desk, feces left on her chair and urine spilled in her office, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges.
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) site contained a section called “Make test prep fun,” which directed students to a site with quizzes that help them find out if they are a “sexy bitch,” “evil,” a “freak,” “insane,” etc. Scrolling down and right on the page, students could also click on the links to take quizzes that would help them find out if they are “sluts,” or “losers.”
Crime, Government, Degeneracy, Education, Waste, Drugs
Nearly 1,000 city school-bus drivers and escorts were suspended or fired for misbehavior in 2015 — an alarming number that has skyrocketed in recent years, records show.
One driver was seen dropping his pants outside a school, twice in one day. Another urinated in a bottle on a bus with a child aboard because he had a “bladder and bowel condition.”
One carried Coors Light; another reeked of pot. One denied dozing at the wheel but was caught on video by frightened attendants.
The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.
The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”
The group — called the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc. — instead spent $500,000 in the 2015 – 2016 fiscal year on items like food, limousines and rap music, the Post found.
-Luke Rosiak
Liberal, Hate, Assault, Vandalism
Anti-Semitic incidents jumped 27-percent in New York last year, according to a new report. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says there were 248 incidents statewide in 2012. 172 of those incidents were in New York City, according to the statistics released on Monday. "Jews are still being targeted in significant numbers across New York State," added Gregg Mashberg, ADL New York Regional Board Chair. The report compiled incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism. New York had the most anti-Jewish incidents in the country last year, according to the report.
Urinating and drinking in public would no longer be treated as crimes under a package of bills New York’s City Council will consider to ease enforcement of quality-of-life offenses that lawmakers say clog the courts and have been disproportionately enforced against minorities.
-Bloomberg News
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Character, Funny, Oops
Speaking in Philadelphia at an event highlighting Amtrak’s unveiling of its newest engine, Biden said, “If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2:00 in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said ‘Where do you think you are,’ they’d say, ‘This must be America, it’s a modern airport… But if I blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you must think, ‘I must be in some third world country.’ I’m not joking.”
Keep Our Daughters, Sisters Away From Andrew Cuomo Types...
"It’s conduct unbecoming. We wouldn’t want our sisters, we wouldn’t want our daughters working in any such environment. And it’s a very sad piece of New York state history."
Democrat Sexual Harasser: Not Fit For Public Office...
"I think the report establishes conclusively that Andrew Cuomo is not fit for public office."
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Sex, Greed, Feminism, Healthcare, Corruption
The New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee released the findings of its investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday, producing fresh allegations to lay at Cuomo’s doorstep.
As CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported, there are a number of new details, which deal not only with sexual harassment allegations, but the ex-governor’s mega-million dollar book deal and the state employees he ordered to work to bring the book to market...
The report on Cuomo’s behavior in office involved interviews and depositions from more than 200 people, ranging from the women he is accused of sexually abusing, allegations about the underreporting of nursing home deaths, and the huge role reportedly played by members of his administration in arranging, typing editing, and weighing in on his book...
But no one seems to have had a greater role than secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa, who was identified by sources as the senior executive chamber official in the report who served “as the key point of contact for the book, and sent and received at least 1,000 emails regarding the book.”
Democrat, Liberal, Hate, Government, Character, Brilliance, Smears, Demagoguery, Tolerance, Diversity, Stereotyping, Bigotry, Arrogance
"Who are they?" he said. "Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are."
Hypocrisy, Character, Greed, Elitism
Over the weekend, New York City, defying those who think such a move is insulting to the poor, approved a move by the developer Extell to build a separate entrance at an Upper West Side condominium for its affordable housing tenants... Ironically, the district in which this is located voted heavily for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, giving him 76% of the vote in 2008 and 74% in 2012. The New York Post reported that the new entrance has been nicknamed the “poor door,” and it will be part of the 33-story luxury condo at 40 Riverside Drive
There's no reason to do business in New York...
"There's no reason to do business in New York. I can do the same volume in Florida in the same square feet as I would have in New York, with my expenses being much less.
The idea was that branding and locations were important, but the expense of being in this city has overtaken the marketing group that says you have to be there."
2014: It’s official. Florida is the nation’s third-largest state with 19.7 million people. It surpassed New York this month by adding an average of 803 new residents every day as opposed to New York’s 140... As the James Madison Institute reports, Florida’s growth is built on a consensus that taxes, spending, and regulation should be restrained.
Democrat, Liberal, Character, Oops
New York City was ranked the least happy city in America when adjusted for income, according to a working study, titled “Unhappy Cities,” released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study leaned on a questionnaire that has been administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the last several years and asks respondents: “In general, how satisfied are you with your life?”
Liberal, Degeneracy
A Brooklyn mother says she and her 3-year-old son are still traumatized after she found the boy covered in bite marks and blood in his bed from what she believes was a rat attack. "There was blood all over his pillow," said Marilyn Abreu, who lives in a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment with her son. The boy had open wounds across his face, neck and feet. Abreu believes he was bitten by a rat or several rats while he slept on Aug. 21. "It wasn't no scratches, it was the actual teeth," she said.
The Rats of New York
Humans and rats have been living side-by-side for thousands of years in a kind of uneasy truce, but Animal Planet has named New York City the worst rat city in the world. Rats in New York have been known to overrun restaurants after hours, crawl up sewer pipes and enter apartments through toilets. -Alex Greig
• “I see about 20 a day,” a man in Washington Heights told 1010 WINS’ John Montone. One woman said rats have infested her building on 154th Street, where one rodent bit a neighbor’s daughter. “
• It was seven minutes in hell! A nasty rat was an unwelcome commuter on a rush-hour A train yesterday morning — terrorizing straphangers during the agonizingly long nonstop ride from Harlem to Midtown.
• Rat infestations are a common problem in the city, but one resident is taking matters into his own hands. Joseph Bolanos, president of the West 76th Street Block Association, installed rat-crossing signs in his neighborhood on the Upper West Side.
NYC Subway Rat Crawls on Man's Face:
Liberal, Degeneracy, Metaphor, Theft
Thieves crippled service on the A and C train when they stole 500 feet of copper cable from subway tracks near Howard Beach, the MTA said. The cable was taken from roughly 12 locations along tracks and some signal equipment and track components were damaged. The theft caused power failures and created chaos for thousands of commuters Wednesday morning, the agency said.
Liberal, Tax, Government, Incompetence, Financial, Oops, Economy, Regulation
A new survey reveals that small business owners give New York State a thumbs down for small business friendliness. Thumbtack has released the results of its 2015 Small Business Friendliness Survey and it reveals that the State of New York is one of the least friendly places to do business in the United States... the state was given a “D” for business friendliness, with an F in “ease of starting a business” which brought down the overall score.
Texas, New Hampshire, Utah, Louisiana and Colorado were rated the friendliest places for small businesses to operate; while Rhode Island, Connecticut, California and New York came in last.
Democrat Corruption, Greed, and Hypocrisy
Albany: Almost a quarter of the state Senate's Democratic conference was in the FBI's cross hairs last year, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday. Democrats have been charged with conspiracy and bribery...
New York has the highest per-pupil public school spending in the country, and what’s it accomplishing? A high-school graduate population that’s overwhelmingly not ready for college... only 37 of every 100 students who entered high school in 2009, and stayed long enough to graduate, learned enough by last June to do college-level academic work — or to enter the workforce in any meaningful way.
Liberal, Incompetence, Degeneracy, Narrative, Oops
They are sleeping in front of the Empire State building, sprawled in front of the doors of Macy's, and panhandling outside Grand Central. New York is in the grip of a homeless epidemic so bad that it has raised fears of the city slipping back into the disorder of the 1970s and 1980s. The city's police chief this week said that as many as 4,000 people are now sleeping rough in the city, in a crisis which even the city's ultra-liberal mayor has finally acknowledged after months of denials.
Degeneracy, Assault
A 37-year-old woman is recovering after being stabbed with what doctors believe was a needle while aboard a subway platform in Midtown Manhattan... It is the latest in a string of incidents in the New York City subway system. There have been at least 10 stabbings or slashings in the subway system since the year began.
Liberal, Union, Incompetence, Degeneracy
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday said it was “reviewing protocols” after a straphanger’s encounter with a flasher on the subway. As CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported, the woman’s post about the experience went viral on social media – along with a complaint that complained that the train conductor seemed uninterested in the problem. The underground unpleasantness happened on the No. 3 train in Brooklyn, near the Nevins Street station. The rider, Tiffany Jackson, saw the man masturbating while looking at her and she discreetly snapped a few photos.
Liberal, Crime, Degeneracy, Waste, Assault
Police are looking for a man captured on video violently shoving a bag of feces down the pants of a woman walking on the Upper East Side Monday. The 27-year-old woman was walking on East 74th Street near First Avenue at about 6 p.m. when the man approached her from behind, grabbed her waist and shoved a bag of feces down her pants, police said. He grabbed her buttocks, then ran away.
New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms.
The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time...
But I was also scared shitless and freaked out by the smell of piss and vomit everywhere, especially in the entryway of my third-floor walk-up.
-Madonna 2013 Interview, Harper's
Liberal, Crime, Violence, Incompetence, Assault, Theft
They’re robbed as they walk their dogs, go on moonlit strolls or sit waiting for buses. They’re robbed as they lean on their canes or sit in their wheelchairs. In some cases, they’re shoved to the ground and even kicked while they’re down. More than once a day on average this year, someone over the age of 65 was mugged somewhere in New York City. And the numbers are up, particularly in the Bronx and Manhattan.
Liberal, Incompetence, Financial, Oops, Waste
The New York City Department of Education doesn’t know what happened to the $84 million it spent on students with disabilities programs, an audit report released Monday shows.
Controller of the audit, Scott Stringer, pointed to the fact that the city didn’t track where money for physical and speech therapy treatment as well as psychological counseling landed. Instead, NYC ended up spending the money on poorly crafted and even completely empty programs designed to scam the government into wasting taxpayer dollars on pointless education initiatives.
“During the audit, DOE represented that it did not have any project plans, implementation schedules, and progress reports to document the steps taken, rate of progress, and total cost” the report reads.
Liberal, Hate
One video showed a 51-year-old Jewish man being beaten to the ground by three young men, who seemed to select him at random. Another showed an Orthodox Jewish man being chased across the street by a man wielding a tree branch. A third showed an Orthodox Jewish man hanging on to a fence as an assailant jumped and choked him.
The three incidents, all of which took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the past year, have raised alarms in the neighborhood and in the city’s large Orthodox Jewish community as a whole. Hate crimes are up citywide, but in Crown Heights, they have taken a particularly violent turn.
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Character, Degeneracy, Brilliance, Oops, Fear, Waste, Lie
Trash has been accumulating across New York City after the budget of the sanitation department was cut by more than $100million. Photos show bags filled with leftover food scraps, cans and bottles piled high on sidewalks or overflowing out of corner litter baskets.
Dead rats have been found among the waste and raccoons have been spotted climbing out of garbage cans.
It comes after City Hall slashed $106 million from the sanitation department's budget, which reduced pickup for trash cans by 60 percent, reported CBS 2 New York.
A harrowing scene occurred recently on the New York City subway when a group of teens approached and harassed a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke. The ringleader, a self-identified Muslim teen, threatened to kill the man and added, “They should have killed all of you.” When police confronted the belligerent 17-year-old at a stop in Brooklyn, a mob formed. As the crowd filmed the scene and yelled at the policemen, one young woman began beating a cop before being arrested.
Violence, Character, Assault
Disturbing surveillance video shows a woman getting walloped without warning by a passerby in Brooklyn on Monday morning — the city’s latest case of unprovoked sidewalk violence.
The unsuspecting, 40-year-old victim was sitting on the stoop outside 418 Sterling St. in Crown Heights when a man she doesn’t know struck her on the left side of her face around 7:45 a.m., the NYPD said.
A video clip posted online shows the brute walking up and using his left hand to deliver the roundhouse blow.
Violence, Degeneracy, Assault
Actor Rick Moranis was punched in the head in a caught-on-video unprovoked attack on the Upper West Side this week, law enforcement sources told The Post on Friday.
Moranis, 67, was walking south on Central Park West near West 70th Street — steps from his apartment building — around 7:30 a.m. Thursday when a stranger suddenly slugged him, knocking him to the ground, according to police and a surveillance clip...
Moranis, suffering pain in his head, back and right hip, went to a local hospital for an evaluation, cops said.
Liberal, Crime, Violence, Government, Degeneracy, Assault
LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Four suspects are in custody after a string of slashings and stabbings on the subway that injured 5 people, the NYPD says. The victims were punched, slashed, or stabbed in five separate incidents on subway trains or inside stations.
Police say the spree began at 4:25 a.m., when a 44-year-old man was slashed in the face on a southbound 4 train at the 14th Street Union Square station. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Minutes later, a 40-year-old man was slashed in the face and a 41-year-old man was punched at the Astor Place subway station. The man who was slashed was also taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Then, at 4:37 a.m., a 44-year-old man was slashed in the back of the head in a robbery. That victim was taken to Lenox HealthPlex in Greenwich Village.
Finally, around 5 a.m., a 48-year-old man told officers at NYPD Transit Bureau District 11 at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx that he was stabbed multiple times on a northbound D train somewhere in Manhattan sometime overnight.
The 48-year-old man, who is homeless, said one attacker stabbed him once in the right eye and once in the left side of neck and his cheek.
Liberal, Crime, Hate, Character, Degeneracy
A Door Dash delivery driver posted a video of himself tampering with food that had been ordered by an NYPD officer in Brooklyn...
The person who posted the video to Facebook wrote: “This is a Facebook public announcement, I don’t violate people food like that … that was personal. we at war.”
The officer who was targeted apparently threw out the meal, though it’s not clear if that was before or after he started eating it. It’s also not clear if something else had been put in the food besides the note and the person’s fingers.
Earlier this week, Democratic State Senator Malcolm Smith was accused of trying to rig the city’s mayoral election by bribing his way onto the GOP ballot. Now two New York State Assemblymen are being charged in another bribery racket to keep a Bronx senior center free of competition... With three Democratic politicians charged in one week, prosecutors are calling corruption in New York politics “rampant.”
Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Character, Degeneracy, Waste, Law, Drugs
The Garment District is Gotham’s newest shooting gallery, a disturbing heroin hotspot of addicts booting up in broad daylight.
The outgoing de Blasio administration appears unwilling or unable to address the crisis, as the quality-of-life disaster unfolds just steps from high-profile Midtown landmarks such as Macy’s, Madison Square Garden and the sparkling new Moynihan Train Hall.
The block bordered by 35th and 36th streets, and Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is “littered with used needles, broken glass crack pipes, trash, urine, and feces” as junkies shoot up and dealers brazenly sell drugs, lamented one neighbor on social media. “I’ve personally seen dozens of deals go down. I’ve seen a person OD and nearly die.”...
The NYPD appears to have only a token presence. Two cops stood on Eighth Avenue between 35th and 36th, leaning up against a police van while staring into their phones, as illicit activities swirled around them.
But cops have been “effectively ordered” by city and state leaders to let junkies roam free, said Manny Gomez, a former NYPD sergeant and FBI special agent who now heads MG Security Services.
Liberal, Crime, Violence, Narrative, Oops, Feminism, Assault
Disturbing video released by the New York Police Department Monday shows a woman getting up from a bench and shoving another woman into a moving subway train entering a Times Square station during the early morning rush hour commute in what’s believed to be an unprovoked attack.
The female suspect, whom police describe as a woman in her 30s wearing a multicolored scarf, black shirt and beige pants, is seen getting up from a bench inside the 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue station and suddenly shoving a 42-year-old woman, who is off camera...
The assailant then appears to calmly walk away, as several other bystanders on the platform appear relatively unaffected. Police say the 42-year-old woman did not fall onto the tracks, but rather the force of the push knocked her into the moving train before she ricocheted backward onto the platform.
Liberal, Crime, Degeneracy, Oops, Justice, Law, Theft
Thanks to a citywide shoplifting tsunami, bare necessities are now rare luxuries on drug-store shelves across New York City.
“It looks like the Third World,” bemoaned one Manhattan resident, after eyeing the aisles of a CVS on Sixth Avenue in Soho desperately low of toothpaste, face wash and hand sanitizer, among a long list of other items.
“They’ve all been stolen,” a CVS employee told The Post.
State bail reform laws make shoplifting a promising career option for some New York City crooks. One man, Isaac Rodriguez, 22, of Queens, was arrested for shoplifting 46 times this year alone, The Post exclusively reported last week...
“Insanity,” the police commissioner tweeted last week in response to The Post report. “No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail reform law.”
Public Transportation
President Obama’s infatuation with the effort to create another government-subsidized rail entitlement means the rest of the country is on the hook for at least half of this still considerable sum. Retirees in Florida and schoolteachers in Mississippi, who will never ride California’s train, will be forced to pay for it anyway.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime
Amid a surge in some New York City violent crime, Wall Street bigwigs continue to encourage younger staffers to come into the office — but to do so with caution.
At Bank of America, senior executives have quietly encouraged younger employees to “dress down” to attract less attention as they make their way to B of A’s tower at 1 Bryant Park. These execs have told their staffers that dressing up, or wearing anything with a Bank of America logo, could make them a target...
Some companies like Citibank are offering employees private shuttles so they can avoid public transportation altogether.
Liberal, Crime, Violence, Incompetence, Degeneracy, Assault
New York City police are searching for a group of suspects accused in a violent assault and robbery Thursday afternoon of a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn, WCBS-TV reported. The 4 p.m. incident was caught on surveillance video on Utica Avenue near Sterling Place in Crown Heights, the station said. The girl apparently was knocked to the sidewalk by one male before others joined the attack and began stomping her...
Carlita Gorden works at a nearby salon and came to the scene when she heard screaming, the station said... "She was bleeding like crazy," she said. "We just tried to keep her calm and sitting there until the ambulance come."
The New York Police Department defied every ICE detainer request it received in the first four months of 2017, instead releasing 179 alien criminals back into the streets, according to the New York Post.
-Heather Mac Donald
The videos have become all too familiar: Hasidic Jews viciously, violently attacked on the streets of Brooklyn.
Last week, there were two such violent attacks, both on the streets of Williamsburg, plus a couple of verbal incidents, including one in which a traffic officer reportedly called a driver a “stupid Jew.”
-Karol Markowicz