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SaintBrutus t1_iw8lgwh wrote
The one near me in BK was put up at the end of Summer, there was rain and it was flooded out, but thankfully no human being ever had to live there.
I’m really confused by all of this.
A lot of money was spent on phantom humans we never actually saw.
superhancpetram t1_iw8u3ti wrote
🤦♂️
Impossible-Try-8283 t1_iw8u9hw wrote
Shit... I'll go live there.
onlyletters999 t1_iw8vwoy wrote
All about $$$$.
_Cantgetanyworse_ t1_iw8xdkh wrote
Randall's Island is barren as hell. Just repurpose it. It could be a decent homeless shelter if staffed properly. What a waste of money to dismantle it.
Wowzlul t1_iw93ev9 wrote
While I'm all about new residential, there's nothing on Randall's that a homeless person could use to make themselves not homeless. No retail, no employment opportunities, no local residents to interact with and build community, nowhere to go really except some parks.
Calm-Heat-5883 t1_iw93pnb wrote
Someone needs to audit this. Millions have been wasted. Or more likely been awarded to friend's. Where is all the gear going to. Cots, mattresses. Xboxes? How many manhours were wasted because you know it was fully staffed. Why not let the homeless use it
mall_goth420 t1_iw93rnd wrote
There already is a large shelter up there, we might as well repurpose the camp
Wowzlul t1_iw94pms wrote
Did not know that. I know there's all kinds of structures and institutions the city considers undesirable like mental hospitals, but a homeless shelter I was not aware of.
Wowzlul t1_iw94ut2 wrote
Iirc homeless people in the Great Depression actually set up camps inside Central Park and the sheep that had been herded there for generations had to be moved upstate because the city was worried that starving people would kill and eat them.
_Cantgetanyworse_ t1_iw96fln wrote
The UES of Manhattan and Astoria are but a stone's throw from Randall's in either direction so it doesn't need to specifically contain all of those elements imo. That's a fair point though.
_Cantgetanyworse_ t1_iw96ljd wrote
Interesting. I'd been there many times and never knew.
Wowzlul t1_iw979d2 wrote
Could always set up some kind of bus service yeah
seejordan3 t1_iw9f882 wrote
Merry Christmas, from the NYC taxpayer
bittoxic00 t1_iw9j2g3 wrote
Elections over and all the checks have been cashed, nothing to see here
Grass8989 t1_iw9jw24 wrote
What a beautiful piece of history 🥰.
Grass8989 t1_iw9k1my wrote
They were temperature controlled and those arent traditional “camping tents”, the walls are quite thick. It really wouldn’t have been unpleasant at all.
Any_Foundation_9034 t1_iw9lgz8 wrote
This can only mean one thing….
That they’ve blended into the population.
uber-chica t1_iw9mtxk wrote
Your tax dollars hard at work
uber-chica t1_iw9mxxc wrote
I think that was more about optics because of an election coming up and that’s over now
KaiDaiz t1_iw9oark wrote
so would have cost a fortune to operate. meanwhile we could have cram a bunch of folks into jacob javits like we planned for during covid or other unused buildings in city/state
ron12345 t1_iw9ok76 wrote
> friend's
🤯
Wowzlul t1_iw9onln wrote
I saw it in that Ken Burns doco about New York that came out a million years ago (sometime in the 90s). The guy talking about it was a descendant of the guy who donated the sheep. He seemed miffed that the city would move them upstate after "my family was so kind as to" blah blah.
Lol
flowerchair2000 t1_iw9p2fy wrote
Once again tax payers, money wasted. This is just like the Covid overflow tents that stayed empty throughout the worst of the pandemic.
Grass8989 t1_iw9pime wrote
Javits center is actually being used for its intended purpose now, as opposed to during the height of Covid.
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the_kfcrispy t1_iw9tfne wrote
> Xboxes
ah ha! Evidence this goes back to Bill Gates!
Flivver_King t1_iw9uamo wrote
Is that including the cost of the one they built but then shut down before opening in Orchard Beach after it flooded like people said it would, then moved it to Randalls only to close it again?
Flivver_King t1_iw9utjq wrote
Just like the $800 million DeBlasio’s wife made disappear a few years ago. Some major corruption in our city, maybe if the taxpayers weren’t being robbed of a billion every so often we would have better infrastructure.
Grass8989 t1_iw9vh9r wrote
What do you mean “thriveNYC” was a rousing success. /s
thisfilmkid t1_iw9xedv wrote
You know, I don't believe that damn figure.
My job had a tent set up for 300 PPL for an event and it only cost $3,000 for use for one week. It came with heating, installation, and 5 restrooms. The chairs and tables were additional $500.
The number the city gave to the media, IMO, was pulled out someone's ass-cheek.
I want to see the receipts.
AndieTy t1_iwa4zrr wrote
Just lurking but anyone see a supposed trucker protest today? If not I guess it's tomorrow
Magnus462 t1_iwaao5u wrote
Probably all set up so NYC looks like it’s doing something in the eyes of the media. Why else spend all that money for empty camps?
SolitaryMarmot t1_iwadj2e wrote
Tbf you can see what happened to the mental health crisis in this city after many of those programs were defunded...
But don't worry no one will ever try non-siloed mental health initiatives inside existing agencies ever again.
cambriancatalyst t1_iwakhty wrote
A lot of money was funneled from tax payers pockets to Adams acquaintances
Even-Yogurt1719 t1_iwarme8 wrote
They should use it for the homeless
hortence1234 t1_iwawvvv wrote
But did you spend money on XBoxes?
TheBeesBestKnees t1_iwb1spg wrote
Did Adams get attention for it and his face on social media? Mission accomplished.
Jimmy_kong253 t1_iwb5p08 wrote
Makes sense the midterms elections are over
1600hazenstreet t1_iwbkwas wrote
Donations to his supporters.
filthysize t1_iwbkzvy wrote
ConsumeristWhore t1_iwbmjzb wrote
This stayed empty because by the time it was set up the busses stopped coming. As soon as the city was adequately prepared for the multiple bus loads of migrants coming every day, they stopped being sent.
ConsumeristWhore t1_iwbnejf wrote
There were multiple bus loads of people showing up every day. They weren't "phantom humans" they were real people trying to find asylum. Many left once they arrived because the city offered them bus tickets elsewhere. Some ended up being temporarily housed. Some just needed to get to a Western Union to get money and were completely independent.
The reason this shelter stayed empty is because by the time it was built Texas and Florida stopped sending busses. Remember that this crisis for NYC was entirely manufactured by other state/city governments. Once NYC made the investment to handle it, they stopped the crisis.
BxGyrl416 t1_iwbo9os wrote
I wonder which of his cronies owns the tent company that built it.
BxGyrl416 t1_iwbohrp wrote
Yeah, they paid the MTA $800 million to house the mentally ill/chemically homeless population.
NYY657545 t1_iwbolo6 wrote
Digital Gadgets
BiblioPhil t1_iwbrs68 wrote
Wow, that's so theatrical and performative, unlike the act of shuttling misinformed asylum seekers a thousand miles away and stranding them in NYC.
BiblioPhil t1_iwbrz61 wrote
Boy, I am so outraged by how the Democrats reacted to... having thousands of asylum seekers stranded in their city by Texas Republicans.
PiffityPoffity t1_iwc149a wrote
It’s extremely inconvenient to be assigned to the existing shelter on Randall’s Island. You can’t reasonably expect homeless people to turn their lives around when it’s so difficult to commute to work.
talldrseuss t1_iwc4ow3 wrote
Which tents? The ones at Central Park were definitely bring used
talldrseuss t1_iwc4v0k wrote
There are multiple shelters in the north part of the island
talldrseuss t1_iwc4y0c wrote
They are given MetroCards to take the bus. The stop is right by the shelters
flowerchair2000 t1_iwcjzfl wrote
PredictBaseballBot t1_iwcvn74 wrote
It’s almost as if this crisis was a stupid pre-election manufacture by heartless southern governors to make a headline.
Dichotopotamus t1_iwd1nnu wrote
This is because the migrants are now blended into society. They got what they wanted - free passage into the country and now are bidding for labor work.
They are not true asylum seekers like the Afghans... fleeing political or religious persecution, and looking for food and shelter. They came for work and it puts our lowest income citizens (people of color) out of work and relying in public assistance.
I'm Latino saying this. My Dad told me the one guy by our old house (Brooklyn) makes sandwiches for $3/hr at the deli. They don't come to live in tent cities. They are stacked into apartments and claim public assistance too. I've seen them. One of the neighbors got an EBT card from the pandemic stimulus of $1,600 and she never even applied... and she's here illegally from eastern Europe. I know another woman from Ecuador who got some top but she did not tell me how much. She's here for a long time waiting for deportation proceedings but they keep being postponed due to massive backlog of doing criminals first so she never will be deported and she knows this.
I believe our government knows all this but wants them to plant the flag, have kids, become dependents of the state, and be lifelong voters. Guess which party does this. If you're white you don't understand.
buttheadini t1_iwd6n3v wrote
There’s 3 shelters there already. And a state psychiatric hospital.
orangejuicecake t1_iwdtqnc wrote
send an invoice to texas
NYY657545 t1_iw8j4ba wrote
$650k well spent /s