“I believe Antifa left this behind when they were kicked out of their Seattle autonomous zone,” Drew Hastings, a comedian and former Mayor of Hillsboro, Ohio, wrote on Twitter.
Attached to his tweet was an image of garbage spilling over, what Hastings implied, was a sidewalk in Seattle. Activists had apparently left behind the rubbish after police pushed them out of a section of Seattlethat protestors…
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I also took pictures of this scene the morning after it occurred (Huron Street outside of ‘The Greenpoint), and yes it happened on NYC’s worst night of civil discontent (June 2nd) following George Floyd’s murder. I emailed several photos of the destruction to Greenpointers the next day but Never heard back…
While I despise disinformation (False/misleading photos etc.) in all its forms, this fire was clearly an act of violence (innocent people/young children live in that building). Claiming it was in Seattle was an underhanded political tactic, however.. people destroyed our community that night and put innocent lives at risk. Glad the fire department put out that fire. Lesson that needs to be that two wrongs never make a right! Please don’t censor my post.
This is one issue. Another issue is the amount of homeless encampments mainly on the biggest streets like Greenpoint Ave., Manhattan Ave., Calyer St. They have turned sections of these streets in cesspool areas with tons of garbage, going to the bathroom on the street etc. It is absolutely disgusting. Don’t feed these homeless people and demand of your elected officials they be put in secure, safe shelters.
Calyer Street between Manhattan and Lorimer is no joke. There are encampments on both sides of the street. I’m a biggish guy who can protect myself (I hope), but I avoid the block, even though it’s my quickest route to Manhattan Ave. If I walk the block, I walk it in street. Cars are safer than the bearded tinkerer dude by Crunch, who is normal except when he’s having a episode, or the other 3-4 under the scaffolding (the two ladies are always polite but junkie guy is hit or miss). There’s trash and piss coating the block.
I’d call the boys from the 9-4, except when I was a Hayseed who moved here 15 years ago, I complained to them and watched for my window as they threatened an pointed a gun at the head of a man they already had in restraints on India Street by the Astral. He was on the curb obeying already.
I don’t know what to do.
“Old New York” is back, for anyone who used to mourn it. It’s less charming as “new” New York rents are still in place. I don’t know what to do.
I haven’t been on Cayler since bank closed franky, I was shocked by the amount of garbage and homeless ladies and the man with the little dog
Organize and clean it up
Be sure the news is notified. Where is your District Leader?
All you proved with this article is that Chaz and Greenpoint are both liberal dumps.
Mike, congrats on your move to what I can only assume is Florida. Never come back. There’s trash and then there’s Trash.
lol yeah im actually from new york but thanks. Go gentrify a new neighborhood while you’re here.
Other than the actual physical location, everything else is legitimate.
Sadly, it seems that some commentators are comparing the homeless among us to the disposable trash in this mislabeled photo. There but for fortune go you or I my friends. The homeless are not some kind of alien half-human monsters. They are suffering people who have lost their way, people who desperately need our help, not our condemnation, dismissal, ridicule or fear. For if YOU were in their tattered shoes, if YOU lived their shattered lives, if YOU were at the end of your rope and had nowhere to go, then YOU would hope and plead for compassion and understanding; YOU would pray that when YOU stumbled, that when YOU fell, people would be there to lift YOU up – instead of kicking you further and further down into the abyss. For when they die in our parks or die on streets or die of neglect part of us also dies, part of our decency and common humanity, whether we realize it or not.
Love thy neighbor? Yes —especially if they are poor, hungry or homeless. Yes, —even if they are not your family, or your next-door neighbor. For that love & empathy & respect is the true meaning of community, compassion and Christianity. But you don’t need to be Christian, or even religious, to understand the meaning & social importance of the ancient teaching that tellsus: “whatever you did for the least of these you did for me”.
DeBlasio & Cuomo need to provide sanitary alternatives (for such as shower & bathroom facilities & masks & gloves for the homeless, instead of forcing them to congregate in large numbers in dangerous cattleicae shelters and risk their lives in this pandemic. For many decades NYC provided SRO (single room occupancy) housing, only to have it wiped out by gentification & greed. For many more decades before that, New York City provided free municipal bathhouses scattered thru-out the boroughs – for the crowed tenements dwellers of the last century. (In fact there was ine right down the block from the trash fire on Huron- now converted into a fancy condo). It’s time to revive those kind if efforts for a new reality – in a city that is becoming more and more unaffordable, with more and more unemployed & homeless ….soon to be joined by many thousands of evicted renters. There but for fortune go you or I.