{"id":4503,"date":"2026-07-14T23:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:38:31","slug":"mayor-mamdani-tear-down-this-sprawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani: Tear down this sprawl!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York City spends a small fortune on the homeless. <\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani\u2019s latest budget includes, for instance, a $1.9 billion \u201cemergency\u201d hotel shelter contract.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Homeless Services estimates it will spend an astounding $97,000 per street homeless person in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n

If taxpayers are going to shell out that much money, we need \u2014 nay, deserve <\/em>\u2014 something in return.<\/p>\n

And that something is streets free of homeless encampments.<\/p>\n

If the city is going to have a \u201cright to shelter,\u201d then there should be a covenant that the mentally ill and substance addicts must take <\/em>that shelter.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the deal. <\/p>\n

Otherwise it\u2019s just a waste of our money.<\/p>\n

Instead, Mamdani is taking our cash while also blocking a cleanup of Manhattan\u2019s west side, where encampments have now spread across blocks.<\/p>\n

Progressives seem incapable of taking to heart the lessons that New York City has learned again and again.<\/p>\n

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Take, for instance, Mamdani boasting on July 2 that the city had its \u201csafest start to any year on record.\u201d<\/p>\n

This didn\u2019t magically happen because Mamdani was elected.<\/p>\n

It happened because of a righteous backlash to the idiocy of \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

It happened because Jessica Tisch rebuilt the NYPD and shoplifting was made a crime again. <\/p>\n

It happened because Rikers Island, which was emptied to 3,809 prisoners in 2020, filled back up to 6,550, taking the worst of the worst off the streets.<\/p>\n

This is obvious to everyone but our socialist leaders, just as it\u2019s obvious that the \u201cbroken windows\u201d philosophy makes a safer, more welcoming city for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Allowed to fester, encampments will spread. <\/p>\n

They will scare away tourists. <\/p>\n

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They will push away families. <\/p>\n

They will increase crime and chaos on the streets. <\/p>\n

We know because it\u2019s happened before. <\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani, don\u2019t let it happen again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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