“When the mayor came, there was a man here sitting right out front of my door with a knife in his hand,” Greer Smith, 72, told The Post. “It makes me feel threatened.”
has gotten so bad, vagrants are living in public-housing hallways — and the NYPD is bringing back its controversial vertical patrols to give them the boot.
A police officer outside the Abraham Lincoln Houses where the homeless seek shelter in stairwells and hallways.The footage shows one vagrant sitting in a chair with one shoe off in a hallway and another sitting at the top of a darkened stairwell. Officers still go into stairwells when responding to 911 calls inside public housing, but the vertical patrols are no longer part of routine policing, sources said.
“I’m afraid for my daughters,” the lifelong resident said, noting that the two eldest are home from college. “I’m always waiting in the hallway waiting for them to get off the elevator.”She said she’s seen vertical patrols in the building before — but they don’t last. “That’s a great idea,” she said. “They need to do that regardless because the things that go on in these NYCHA buildings at night. We’re not secure. We’re not safe.”
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