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Anyway, I live at the first stop of the A train (207th street), and I used to always get a seat. But during colder days, the whole train is full of homeless people who have set up shop in the subway. Clothes everywhere, and seats look like beds of people just sleeping.
Now I'm not criticizing, just that I am surprised this meth/ homeless problem is making a comeback from the 1980's!
Anyway, I live at the first stop of the A train (207th street), and I used to always get a seat. But during colder days, the whole train is full of homeless people who have set up shop in the subway. Clothes everywhere, and seats look like beds of people just sleeping.
Now I'm not criticizing, just that I am surprised this meth/ homeless problem is making a comeback from the 1980's!
Thats why they designed the SAS mezzanines to be so big lol
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Anyway, I live at the first stop of the A train (207th street), and I used to always get a seat. But during colder days, the whole train is full of homeless people who have set up shop in the subway. Clothes everywhere, and seats look like beds of people just sleeping.
Don't laugh but I laughed at the new smell on the subway in the mornings and afternoons (commuter hours). It smells like nail polish remover. It's some crazy leftover smell of cleaners they are putting down now after people have been complaining how AWFUL like butt the trains smell in the morning. I swear I thought it was ME so many mornings! People comment on it a lot (i've only smelt it like 3 days though), but all three days people were like whaaaaaa? It's totally the MTA disinfecting the trains and causing massive delays. mark my words. Anyone else smell that nail polish remover smell?
Drugs, sex, crap, ****, none of this is new in NYC's subways and this stuff never got cleaned out, despite the Giuliani propaganda.
Hardly propaganda, Giuliani directed the NYPD to evict the homeless out of subway trains and stations. Bloomberg maintained the policy. As soon as DeBlasio was elected, you could see the difference already in year 1 with the p|ss and feces smells and homeless sprawled out on entire benches. Now in year 5 it's unbearable again, not like the 70's or 80's, but more than enough to suck the whatever quality of life is left underground with the trains breaking down several times a day
Hardly propaganda, Giuliani directed the NYPD to evict the homeless out of subway trains and stations. Bloomberg maintained the policy. As soon as DeBlasio was elected, you could see the difference already in year 1 with the p|ss and feces smells and homeless sprawled out on entire benches. Now in year 5 it's unbearable again, not like the 70's or 80's, but more than enough to suck the whatever quality of life is left underground with the trains breaking down several times a day
So true and it will continue to slide again under BDB's current lax, anything goes type of policies. I would not be surprised if it hits 70s/80s levels. It does make the police's job easier...less confrontation with derelicts & criminals means for greater safety for the police.
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