Post Uncovers Shantytowns in Local Parks
Rick Calder of the New York Post did an investigative story about the neglect of city parks as part of a two part series, with accompanying video. Posted below are snippets from the article and a link to The Post.
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.
On the flip side:
The department’s biggest recent success stories include reviving parks in Harlem and the once vastly polluted Bronx waterfront, where significant improvements were made to Barretto Point Park, parkland along the Bronx River, Hunts Point Riverside Park and other green space.
Stumble It!
I’m from the Bronx, yet I’ve always wondered where were the hookers on Hoe Street. Now I know.
Prostitution on Hoe St? No kidding! But for real, Highbridge Park is mad sketchy, esp that part that dips below the 181st St. exchange. C.H.U.D!!!