Horror stories from NYC’s 8th Ave. ‘Strip
of Despair’ — where stabbings, drug
use and public defecation are the norm
Posted By: Mercedes44, 6/18/2024 9:21:53 AM
Business owners and residents along Midtown Manhattan’s “Strip of Despair” are so frequently robbed and harassed by drug-addled “psychopaths” that they’ve stopped trying to resist — or even bother calling the cops for help. “Almost every day someone comes into my store to steal,” said 45-year-old Arun Kumar, who owns A’s Coffee Spot on W. 39th St. and 8th Avenue. “They take beer the most — they take it and walk out,” he said. “It’s too dangerous to try and stop them.” Kumar’s shop is located in a stretch of Midtown between Port Authority Bus Terminal and Penn Station that’s come to be known as the “8th Avenue Corridor,”
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The generation that was raised during the global financial crisis and the onsets of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been a stalwart for the Democratic Party for over a decade. I was knocking doors for President Obama and local Democrats in 2012 even before I could vote.
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Court critics tend to respond to these inconvenient realities by saying something like, “Sure, but on the big cases, the culturally divisive ones, the conservatives form the majority and the liberals the dissenting minority.”
This is obviously true sometimes: The Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, is a paradigmatic example.
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to climate progressives 16 replies
nuclear energy should be a wake-up call
to climate progressives 16 replies
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TerraPower
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The Russians Are Coming
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The Russians are coming. Again.
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Business owners and residents along Midtown Manhattan’s “Strip of Despair” are so frequently robbed and harassed by drug-addled “psychopaths” that they’ve stopped trying to resist — or even bother calling the cops for help.
“Almost every day someone comes into my store to steal,” said 45-year-old Arun Kumar, who owns A’s Coffee Spot on W. 39th St. and 8th Avenue.
“They take beer the most — they take it and walk out,” he said.
“It’s too dangerous to try and stop them.”
Kumar’s shop is located in a stretch of Midtown between Port Authority Bus Terminal and Penn Station that’s come to be known as the “8th Avenue Corridor,”
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And Down Goes Fisker
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