RAIDERS OF THE 'LOST' PARKS: OVERRUN BY HOS, JUNKIES, PUSHERS (Bloomberg's New York)

NY Post ^ | 7/6/08 | RICH CALDER

[jimbo123]

Drug dens, homeless shantytowns and prostitution are rampant in New York City's parks, a Post investigation found.

Comparing the manicured lawns of Manhattan's Central Park to the barren, rat-infested eyesore of Spring Creek Park in Brooklyn, the disparity is shocking.

While the Bloomberg administration boasts that parks are in better shape than they've been in four decades, an investigation of 70 parks over the last nine months found:

* Clusters of homeless living in tents and small shantytowns in 10 parks, including Riverside Park near 148th Street in Manhattan.

* Hookers brazenly plying their 24-hour trade, including at Printers Park on Hoe Street in The Bronx.

* Areas where junkies shoot up and crack dealers set up shop, including at Fort George Playground in Washington Heights.

* An illegal chop shop where stolen vehicles, including a stripped US Defense Dept. sedan, are harvested is thriving in Fresh Creek Nature Preserve in Brooklyn.

[Rome2000]

I used to drive a yellow cab in NYC but never heard of Hoe St.

Of course, I never drove to the Bronx much.

[niteowl77]

Hookers brazenly plying their 24-hour trade, including at Printers Park on Hoe Street in The Bronx.

"Give my regards to Hoe Street, remember me to Harlot Square..."

Mr. niteowl77

[Right Wing Assault]

Paging Rudy Giuliani. Emergency call from NYC. They forgot how to run the city.

[Graybeard58]

We should be able to walk in any city, any street, any park in the U.S. without fear of molestation, until that time, we are not truly a free society.

Arming law abiding citizens would go a long way toward achieving that goal.

[Graybeard58]

The only type of welfare that I think I could approve of might be some sort of program to get guns into the hands of needy law abiding people.

[angcat]

I never heard of Hoe Street. It must be made up.

[relee]

I never heard of Hoe Street. It must be made up.

Ever hear of Hoe Avenue? It's near Freeman St.

[angcat]

Ever hear of Hoe Avenue

No, never, I guess I missed that one.

[csvset]

It's Hoe Ave.

Info regarding Printers Park PrintersPark

[Thebaddog]

Did I see a Hoe Garden on that map?

[angcat]

Interesting................

[STONEWALLS]

“Comparing the manicured lawns of Manhattan’s Central Park to the barren, rat-infested eyesore of Spring Creek Park in Brooklyn, the disparity is shocking.”

.....maybe the “disparity” has to do with the kinds of people who go to the park...ya think?

[SlapHappyPappy]

I seem to recall there was an awful lot less of this going on when Rudy was Mayor.

[Chode]

i don't remember this under Rudy, but i may be wrong...

[Postman]

“HOE AVENUE: There were two branches of the Hoe family in the area of Southern Boulevard. Mr. P. A. Hoe owned an estate called “Sunnyslope” whereas Colonel Richard Morris Hoe lived on “Brightside” Estate. The latter was the inventor of a printing press. [section omitted}
“…the “Brightside” mansion, in Gothic Revival style, survived on Faile Street at Lafayette Avenue for many years as a synagogue, Temple Beth Elohim, and now an African Methodist Episcopal Church , Bright Temple .
Members of the Hoe family are buried it vaults of historic St. Ann’s Church of Old Morrisania.
The name is the Saxon word for “Hill.””

Excerpted from:
HISTORY IN ASPHALT: The origin of Bronx Street and Place Names
By John McNamara
Published 1993
Bronx Historical Society
Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
559 pages
ISBN:0941980162

[fleagle]

I lived in NYC during Rudy's administration. The city was clean and safe. No homeless sleeping across subway seats during rush hour and no graffiti-riddled subway cars. It was a great time to live in New York. When I return now to visit friends there it's a shock. There's so much graffiti and garbage and not once, but twice on the subway an aggressive homeless man was harrassing passengers. And to make things more interesting, one of the homeless men stood up and urinated on the floor...and this was during morning rush hour on the train.

[Postman]

I found that excerpt here: http://books.google.com/books?id=qUfosR3PMQoC&dq=Hoe+avenue+history&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

[brushcop]

Why didn’t someone kick his butt?? That GOD I live in Texas but then again, we have Austin...

[brushcop]

That=THANK Must be the cheap coffee we’ve been buying.

[A_perfect_lady]

Maybe we don’t need so many public parks. After all, most of the public dares not use them anyway. Seems to me the problem could be solved by selling the land to private developers. Bring down the cost of housing a smidgeon.

[ktime]

This return to lawlessness in New York is because Mayor Bloomberg has abandoned Mayor Giuliani’s police tactics of enforcing the ‘quality of life’ laws.

Mayor Dinkens and the other liberal mayors never enforced them and the city rotted because of it.

Now Bloomberg is abandoning a successful tactic that kept crime at bay.

[ktscarlett66]

Well where else would you expect hookers to hang out? At least their advertising costs are covered by working on Hoe St/Ave.

[P.O.E.]

Sounds like a great idea for a reality show. /sarc

[jimbo123]

not once, but twice on the subway an aggressive homeless man was harrassing passengers.

Under Bloomberg's new subway panhandling amnesty plan, the homeless thugs are now harassing families with small children in order to get the parents to pay them off to leave the kids alone.

Even during the Dinkins reign of terror, the subway thugs never used to get into the face of small children in order to shake down their parents for a dollar.

[Rome2000]

Thanks

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I used to drive a yellow cab in NYC but never heard of Hoe St.***

Maybe it is a slang term for a certain street, much like in Koza City,Okinawa there was MA1A alley, and in Haiwaii there was S#!t street.

[Postman]

My Pleasure....I had fun checking it out and I not only learned something new but found a source for obtaining similar information.

[omega4179]

Sounds like Bloomberg would be VP material /sarc