Open Thread Wednesday

Who need these homeless , and what are they good for anyway?
They loiter around, urinate and defecate like cats and dogs, and unlike the
latter nobody scooping their poops (although I must add that around here many
dog owners skirt their responsibilities in this respect). I am siding with
Concerned. Hey Concerned, let’s start a campaign for Homelessless Brooklyn
Heights!

Two words:

Farmed salmon

I have foxes and coyotes where I live now.

Wow, just wow. If you have such a bee in your bonnet to “get rid” of “dirty, annoying” homeless people you should know it took me all of five seconds to do a quick Google search for “How to help a homeless person in NYC.” It produced a link to Coalition for the Homeless’ resource page called “What do I do if…” It lists a number of scenarios and gives advice for each one. You could also call the 84th Precinct and speak to the Community Affairs officer. Of course, making this small effort would require you have an ounce of compassion. I pray for you that you find some (and I’m not even a religious person!) Seriously, be kind. Be part of the solution. Otherwise, please keep your opinions to yourself. In the meantime, I’m going to leave you some food for thought. This is an interview with Holocaust survivor, Francine Christophe. As a child, she shared a piece of chocolate while she was interred at Bergen-Belsen. Her one act of kindness had far reaching effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGfngjmwLA

Fair enough. Thank you for the information. I appreciate your opinion and I am saddened by the homeless problem. I simply don’t want it around my children when they wake up and go to school. Is that too much to ask?
Either way, I’ll take your suggestions to heart and move forward with them. We’ll see if anything comes about from it.

I have a small child too. I understand wanting to protect your kids. The homeless can sometimes be frightening, erratic or dangerous. But you didn’t say that about this particular person. You said they are “dirty” and “annoying.” IMHO that’s an incredibly entitled position to take. I don’t have to tell you that this is NYC and there will always be someone less fortunate who isn’t getting the help they need. Enter compassion. So if you do take action that’s a wonderful example to set for your children. And, I’ll be curious to know how the various agencies respond.

Thanks

Lol. There’s plenty of a-holes that I know that weren’t isolated. Why don’t you take your garbage mouth to willow street and get knocked on your a-hole by Willow Street Watch.

So your neighborhood is filled with diva R&B singers and illegal immigrant smugglers? Amazing! I think I’ll call the Trump campaign
and report a suspicious group of people in a wrong year and wrong model Rolls….

The least you could have done is louvered the hood……does that thing have glass Pak’s or steel Packs on it? …..

Those doors are some of the best exterior wood oriented design/art in this city. Really exec composed photo.

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This is an example of the worthlessness of BOTH the left/liberals and most kinds conservatism. Two sides of the same materialistic coin…
And, the utter futility of listening to or trying to reason with their prattle.

The ONLY way to help in this country’s downward spiral is to reject the artificially created right and the left. Again, two sides of the same poisonous coin.

Hey, why don’t we ask every DAVOS and Bilderberg and federal reserve A class stock holder to contribute say .5 % of thier worth or at least yearly income to help the homeless. The problem would be disappear instantly and would be solved for any foreseeable future….

So, which big NGO/son of thread needle street wants to be first?…year that exactly what I thought.

Thanks! My wife shot this one. I’ll give her the compliment.

Big deal. We have coyotes, raccoons, opossums, skunks and all manner of 4-footed wildlife in NYC now. Don’t forget the deer that was hit by a car on the upper West Side a couple of years ago.

I agree, mental illness is the biggest contributor to homelessness. However, lack of affordable housing does play a part. Consider the lower economic fringe of society, where people are renting half a room or couch space to live. There is a transition point from that to the street and affordability must play a role.
I read an article (Atlantic or the Economist) maybe 20 years ago, about how the mindset behind buying a home had shifted from having a place to live to making an investment, and how it effected the market by driving housing prices prices beyond their actual value. and of course the banks did indeed cash-in on that mindset by writing millions of bad loans.

Almost forgot, there’s also a taxidermied one in the window of Teresa’s wine shop on Montague