Quality of Life and Public Safety (Homeless on Streets)

I have been living in Chelsea for they last 16 years. Homelessness and drug users are overtaken the neighborhood

this is truly alarming and something must be done

We have lived at 24th & 6th for 8 years. The past 2 have gotten worse and worse. Human poop stains all over the sides of buildings, homeless laying in the bike lane desperately needing assistance, fighting each other, pleasuring themselves or shooting up in the street in the middle of the day. We see drug deals going on everyday as the drug dealers stand around in plain sight. The CVS on the corner of 25th and 6th smells of pee and an employee there says it gets robbed almost daily. Besides that, the are piles of garbage 8 feet high blocking the sidewalk on 6th spanning from 24th to 22nd, this garbage is being sold like a flea market. It’s insanity! The combination of this all makes us feel like we aren’t safe, and that we live in a slum. These poor people need help, and the illegal flea market needs to be shut down. We’ve called the police and they say they can’t do anything to stop it. It’s literally piles of broken goods and old shoes fished out of the garbage. We need to clean up Chelsea!

I will do anything I can to help protect our neighborhood in Chelsea. The situation has gotten worse and I have become fearful for my safety as I was walking out of my building for work one morning and there was a homeless person shooting drugs in front of our building, another morning a homeless person was trying to poop in our lobby and another time they were passed out in our building lobby. I have reached out to our board and building management company and nothing has been done.

FLATIRON needs action too. The area stretching to the east is in danger as well. Please help.

The number of persons who appear to be homeless or ordinary panhandles has increased dramatically in Chelsea over the past 2 years and worse in the past 1 year. Most just lie on the sidewalks or even in the street, often motionless, some . hooked up to the mulititude of wifi kiosks ( 3 on the west side of 8th ave between 23rd and 21st streets) . I called 911 the 3 days ago to report a man lying in the street in front of the German Luthern church . FDNY EMT arrived 40 minutes later and got him to move from street to sidewalk; thats it!.. No relocation, no referral to social service. Apparently officials hands are tied by ludicrous civil rights rulings; wasn't that way under previous mayors.

Help these people, and our neighborhood.

Help them please

Walking up 8th Ave. on my way to work, every day I pass at least 5-6 people who appear to be in need of help. Some are lying on the sidewalk asleep, some appear physically disabled. Others are clearly not in their right mind. These people need a safe place to go and to be taken care of.

Aside from the potential danger and sanitation issues, it is heartbreaking to see so many souls sleeping on cardboard and assembling jerry-rigged shelters on the streets. and facing a gauntlet of outstretched hands in a given day. It is an untenable situation. The city must step up efforts to find solutions. Mayor Di Blasio? Forget the Presidency and do your job!

We need our neighbor cleaned up! Just witnessed graffiti being painted on a postal box on my street. The cops came but they were long gone. The public housing needs to be made livable as well. This is our community and our neighborhood and neighbors. We all need a safe and clean place to reside.

Homeless on 23rd St and 8th ave lay right in front of the subway entrance, drinking alcohol and fighting.

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Please help these people who are living on the streets.

Mayor, do something. We want this problem fixed.

It is getting out of control and needs to be addressed. Thank you

I’m concerned for their welfare as well as their psyche - many are troubled and desperate on drugs or undiagnosed which results in erratic behavior. This is a serious problem to residents, children and others.

The streets of Chelsea, especially 8th ave, are worse than I remember them and we have been here for forty years. Drugs, very dirty sidewalks, and people passed out on the sidewalks . Our police say their hands are tied to improve the situation. Under former mayors we saw great improvements to our quality of life here. Under Mayor de Blasio we have seen our street regress to the mess they were 40 years ago.

What makes anyone believe that our existing mayor, if you can even call him that, gives a damn. He's too busy with his delusional bid to run for president when he can't even run this city effectively. The situation is a disgrace and a reflection of his lack of leadership. Useless.

treats need to be cleaned up. Afraid to walk my dog alone near upper Chelsea & 6th avenue. all the new kiosks (old telephone booths) are being used as living quarters for small groups of vagrants & drug addicts!