We demand safe and clean streets on the Upper West Side

I’ve noticed a sharp increase in vagrancy on broadway benches filled to a large degree by apparently homeless and half clothed people - some with shopping carts. Not the route I want to take my 3 year old daughter to preschool for sure

We don’t feel safe and clean anymore!!!

Please protect our community and people. Truesupreme.com

This is very hard time for everyone right now and do not make it worse.

Safety, Security, and Health.

I guess it is up to Mayor's Office to take action as options for protecting one's own self or family is limited, thanks to the 9 to 12 month process to legally obtain a firearm in NYC (either a handgun or rifle/shotgun). The NYC office for Rifle and Shotgun Licensing is in Queens, while the Pistol Licensing Division is located in 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan. Texas does not require a permit, registration, or license for firearm ownership - only permits are needed to carry handguns. In NYC, handgun carry permits are virtually impossible to obtain legally - so thankfully the evildoers cannot get them either, right?

410 Columbus Ave

Sad to see this area unsafe!

I am for housing and helping the homeless, in fact I think not enough is in terms of organizing and funding programs and provide homes and job training. However, it unacceptable to simply move hundreds of drug addicted, unsupervised groups of men loitering outdoors into a residential neighborhood. I also believe hotel owners should be prohibited to sign lucrative contracts with the city without any input from the community. There needs to be a mix of homeless individuals, including women & children and retirees to prevent the problems we now see on the UWS.

It is unacceptable to place three shelters in such close proximity to each other for convicted offenders and homeless people. There are numerous hotels in the city that could have been chosen along with one on the UWS to house individuals at risk for Covid due to overcrowding. To pick three shelters within blocks of each other, and then to place some within 1000 feet of a school, knowing there are convicted pedophiles being housed in them, is, at best, gross negligence and a clear dereliction of our public servants' duties. An investigation should be done into the mayor's office and our local assembly people for making such a decision. Someone should be held accountable. These shelters should have been evenly displaced throughout the city.

Better communication. Better organization.

We need safer streets on the UWS! People are paying money to live there and it’s not fair they have to handle this while Covid is still around.

YES!! I have seen SO many more homeless & drug users out in the open and very aggressive. So scary to go outside and with school starting soon we'll have NO CHOICE but to go outside and deal with this danger!!

central park west resident in 10024 this beautiful city is being ruined

The placement of sex offenders next to a school and the amount of homeless committing crimes is not acceptable. No real thought was used in dumping this many people clearly not behaving !!!

317 W 87th Street Apt 6E

The crime has become unbearable in my beloved neighborhood of over five decades. Please keep our neighborhood safe for me and my children.

317 West 87 Street Apartment 8E

240 W. 75th Street, Apt. 4B

Turning neighborhood properties within close proximity to schools into homeless shelters is unacceptable and dangerous. Our children should not have to witness daily alcoholism and drug use on a daily basis. Stop this insanity Now!!!!