We demand safe and clean streets on the Upper West Side

I have been living on the upper west side for 40 years I have seen so many wonderful changes We have a homeless situation why has the city’s problem now become our problem???

Already seeing major changes in the neighborhood. Not good.

This is not safe I can walk down 79 th street now without looking over my shoulder. I see men without shirts walking on the middle of the street at 3 pm high as a kite and several men running out of the Hotel when the Security guy is distracted.security guy is distracted . There are chains on the freezers in Duane Reade on 79th St. they told me that this has become A personal supermarket for the residence in the hotel taking groceries beer whatever they want and walking out without Paying . They literally have a Chains & deadbolt on the freezers that you have to ask the cashiers to open it with the

We need safe streets!

please remove the active drug users and ex offenders

The upper West side is a wonderful place to be. Families with children have felt that this is a safe place to raise their families. Move people that do not contribute positively to the area out of the hotels to areas so that life can return normal there.

222 West 83rd Street Apt 2K

If situation will keep that way, no one will stay in this neighborhood!

148 West 76th St, Apt. 1B

Where’s the transparency?

This is ridiculous. We all want to do the right thing. People need sneak. Still be snatt

I am deeply concerned about this situation. People with criminal or substance abuse history need to be helped and guided to rejoin the community safely, not just randomly housed in the midst of residential families with no means of protection.

I have lived in this neighborhood since the late 1970's, and have experienced its many changes and iterations, most of them for the better. However, the recent wholesale dumping of a critical mass of homeless individuals into the area without any sort of meaningful communication with the community is unconscionable on so many levels. Bad strategy that is already damaging our neighborhood, and frightening to many. This is no way to integrate people into a community. They need to be relocated, as soon as possible.

I was accosted on 70th and Riverside Boulevard. I appreciate you launching this campaign.

It’s too Dangerous for me to walk by them, None of them wear mask.

Please remove this people from our community

Please clean UWS!! Our children deserve better!

These actions initiated by DeBlasio and Helen Rosenthal are lazy, ill considered, non strategic, politically motivated, sound bite reactions to a problem that should have been addressed long before COVID. This will not help the homeless and it will damage the community. I have an elderly mom and she was nearly knocked to the ground. Why not be more strategic Mr. Mayor? Where is the Doe fund? How about engaging them to create jobs and job training for the people in these shelters? What about our kind neighborhood homeless people? They have no place to go and now they are at risk. If there is a rise in COVID cases with a dense senior population we will hold the city accountable.

I can’t even walk down the street in my neighbor hood without encountering people yelling and threatening me. It’s NOT safe for me or my CHILD.

Wherever they are moved they wreak havoc. When does DeBlasio realize this was a very bad decision? Put them in The Marquis in the theater district where there is a big public space for them to congregate