Our city is rebounding, but progress is being impeded by slow action from our leaders. Kudos to four BID Presidents for sharing their observations and recommendations in today’s Daily News to address the costs, both human and economic, of the current situation. As an industry we need to rally and encourage government officials to act decisively and with alacrity.
Reach out to your council members, current and incoming, and other government officials. Demand they take quick and significant action. Thank you Barbara, Tom, Dan, and Fred.
Read their article and make others aware of your concerns.
David L. Miller
CEO
Davler Media
dmiller@davlermedia.com
Midtown Manhattan is in crisis today
It’s been wrenching to witness the tragic scenario playing out on Midtown sidewalks over the last year. Daily, we see scores of people, many with evidently serious addiction problems, dazed or passed out. Some inject drugs in plain sight. Many mentally disturbed individuals are left to their own devices, wandering without any apparent help for the psychological problems that plague them.
It’s a heartbreaking landscape of pain. It cruelly endangers the lives of these desperate individuals — as well as the safety of innocent passersby. Just recently, Maria Ambrocio, a nurse from New Jersey, was viciously attacked in Midtown and died, allegedly at the hands of a mentally unstable homeless person.
From a human perspective, we’re saddened by these agonizing sights and senseless acts of violence. Yet we’re also business leaders who cannot ignore how all this mayhem, open-air drug abuse and disorder are a taking a toll on New York City’s quality of life and economy. Article continues here.
