Posted on 08/24/2020 1:44:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
For Valerie Clark, the breaking point was when a stranger threatened her outside her home.
It was about two weeks ago that the man came up to her as she was entering her apartment building on the Upper West Side. “You’re fixing to get attacked,” he growled. “I know where you live, and you deserve it.”
Clark skirted him, called the police and made a vow: “I said, ‘I’m not going to turn my back.’”
So the 47-year-old, whose daughters are 12 and 14, has spent the past two weeks patrolling her neighborhood with the Guardian Angels, the volunteer organization founded in the bad old days — the late ’70s — of New York City.
Wearing the group’s signature red beret, the divorcée walks the area where she’s lived for 14 years. “It was a beautiful block. Now it’s scary,” Clark said of her street, near The Lucerne and Belleclaire hotels, where hundreds of shipped-in homeless people — including registered sex offenders — have turned the neighborhood into a scene of public urination, drug use and harassment.
Clark, who works in tech, is one of 61 UWS residents who have joined the Angels recently, according to founder Curtis Sliwa, including a psychologist, teachers, lawyers and doctors. (They’ve also had some one-and-done looky-loos show up for the photo op: “Some people take pictures of themselves [in uniform] and never come back,” said Clark.)
Artist Allison Eden, 50, had put her UWS apartment up for sale amid the chaos in the neighborhood, but joined the Angels and now thinks she’ll stay put: “I decided to fight back and help the city. I don’t want to go anywhere.”
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It is a good thing when local people start taking responsibility for their own well being. I dont know the Guardian Angel history, if its good or bad. I do hope this woman is armed with more than a beret.
Moms and teachers doing what NYPD can’t. Only thing missing is a social worker.
Ping.
I guess Staten island will eventually get hit by everything that is going on. But the Democrats can go **** themselves. I don’t leave my home and where I grew up for anybody.
There’s a few hundred thousand Italians on the South shore here. This is where I belong. This is where everyone I know is. Nobody is leaving. Go to hell de Blasio and Cuomo.
To clarify, we are not Italians. We are proud Americans of Italian descent.
If the criminals are smart, they won’t mess with the Americans of Italian descent. Just watching “A Bronx tale” will tell you why.
Teachers? They’re afraid to teach in a classroom because of china virus but they can patrol the streets? Insane.
I have seen it a number of times. It rings true. the rest of the city can burn down around us and progressivism can completely take over and animals can run wild but Staten island is stuck in a time capsule on the South shore. I hope it stays that way.
by the way we would fit perfectly in any southern or heartland suburb. Three-quarters of the guys here are wishing antifa and BLM would show up
“Just watching “A Bronx tale” will tell you why.”
A Bronx Tale - Now yous cant leave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnpE-hGNVj8
A lot of good this will do. The criminals are armed with firearms, the citizen patrols aren’t.
That’s the scene I was thinking of.
BRAVO, lady, but who ya gonna vote for next time ‘round...?
Back in the day, it was the union cops who didn’t support the guardian angels. Now I’m guessing they’re needed once again, because there are no cops.
I believe Sliwa announce that he’s running for mayor.
Maybe Bernie Goetz could come out of retirement.
I fricking hate De Niro, but damnit, he did direct that masterpiece. His first one too.
Wilhelm DeBlasio is delusional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877264/postsBaby
So is Baby Doc Cuomo The Homo:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877265/posts
One of the fictitious Satan’s Messengers in that scene is a real life Hell’s Angel member. He used to go to one of the metal/biker bars I frequent. He never sprayed the bartenders down with beer there, but he did knock some random drunk patron out after he messed with his Harley. Took the guy’s shoes off, nailed one to the bar wall and made the guy leave in his socks.
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