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— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) September 26, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Mayor Adams visits Tompkins Square Park
The #GetStuffDone team is on the move! @NYCMayor joined @HarveyforNY in the East Village to talk with constituents this morning. pic.twitter.com/lqc2Ignt0H
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) May 12, 2023
Local City Councilmember Carlina Rivera was also by the Mayor's side and thanked him for the visit. "We look forward to continued partnership to improve quality of life and well-being in our communities." While a few hecklers were in the Park, the tour and conversation were seen as positive by those in attendance...Tompkins Square Park is a cultural hub, a place to enjoy nature for thousands of local residents. TSP needs investment to keep it safe for NYers. We talked to @NYCMayor about the need for more gardeners & resources for NYers experiencing homelessness or substance use disorders. pic.twitter.com/WJHrxfX7Ne
— Harvey Epstein (@HarveyforNY) May 12, 2023
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Report: 8 arrested in latest sweep of unhoused encampment on 9th Street
The protest began as dozens of police officers, accompanied by a sanitation crew and a single homeless outreach worker, forced out the people living in the encampment for at least the seventh time in the last six weeks.[Tompkins Square Park] has become ground zero to the small but vocal movement protesting Mr. Adams's policies for addressing homelessness. "Housing is a human right, fight, fight, fight," the protesters chanted as police vans pulled up on neighboring streets around 9 a.m., and campers and supporters from a host of mutual aid and tenant activist groups taped off the tents with red packing tape.
All went willingly except Johnny Grima, 37, a homeless man who has emerged as the public face of the protests. He has been arrested three other times in the last month.As officers wrestled him out of his tent, then carried him toward a waiting police van, a protester shouted: "Shame on you. Is that how you treat houseless people?"
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Report: 2 arrested in latest East Village encampment sweep
This was the same location as an action on April 6 that resulted in a 7-hour standoff between a group of activists and unhoused residents and reps from several city agencies.i just watched 33 cops arrest 2 unhoused people in order to sweep an encampment of 5, the entire nyc housing policy is eviction at gunpoint pic.twitter.com/D7xhSlYcwh
— tracy jeanne rosenthal (@two__evils) April 20, 2022
The East Village sweep was part of Mayor Eric Adams' ongoing efforts to clear the city of homeless encampments, which he has repeatedly argued is necessary for the dignity of homeless people. The sweeps, while not a new phenomenon under Adams, have drawn a drumbeat of criticism from homeless advocates, the City Council's Progressive caucus, the New York Times editorial board, and a coalition of faith leaders.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
In Tompkins Square Park, speaking out against the city's sweeps of unhoused encampments
The speakers included Sinthia, one of the unhoused residents who was living on Ninth Street...
"It was awful, it was stupid, and it was violent," said Helen Strom, director of homeless advocacy for Safety Net Project.Strom also said it was dehumanizing to watch homeless people and advocate in a seven-hour standoff with police and a Sanitation crew looking to clear up their encampment on an East Ninth Street sidewalk."What the mayor should be doing is he should be sending out housing specialists to get people into apartments, instead of spending hundreds of thousands of tax payer money on police," she said. Strom said it was a total waste of resources, since the unhoused individuals refused to go to a shelter, fearing for their safety.
The new mayor will face an uphill battle in actually compelling people to leave the streets and go into the city’s shelter system, which is considered unsafe by many who have taken refuge under bridges, on sidewalks and in the subways. Elected officials and advocates for homeless people warn the city lacks capacity to offer people other options, and say the push is an unwelcome return to failed policies of the past.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Today in mayoral visits to the East Village
As previously reported, NYC's indoor vaccine mandate is gone starting today. Restaurants, bars, entertainment venues and gyms are no longer be required to check for proof of COVID-19 vaccination from customers. In addition, the mask ban for students has been lifted.Hitting the streets in the East Village to spread the word: #NYCisBack! pic.twitter.com/q4gcq1MT8l
— City of New York (@nycgov) March 7, 2022
@NYCMayor vehicle blocking a crosswalk #walknyc pic.twitter.com/I4L6htRG4R
— Choresh Wald (@Choresh2) March 7, 2022