Tina Bishop
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06:21:36 pm on February 26, 2010 |
The snow is falling on New York City. Lots and lots of it. More than New Yorkers have seen in years. A frozen tree limb crashes and kills a man in Central Park. No, he was not a “homeless” person, simply a man who was taking a short cut across town.
Which brings up a relevant question: whatever happened to all of the homeless persons who were so much on the mayor’s mind in past years?
Have they all found housing, or are some of them still living in the darkness of the subway tunnels, or warming themselves over hot air gratings, or making do in cardboard boxes? We no longer hear about them.
New Yorkers are undergoing one of the most wretched winters in memory. It’s been colder than a witch’s you-know-what. The unemployment rate is scary. Many are losing their homes through foreclosure. Strangely enough, we do not read there days about the “homeless.” They seem to have vanished.
Perhaps some public relations wizard tipped off the Mayor about all that talking about the homeless. Tourists don’t want to hear about the sordid side of New York, better to focus on former Mayor Lindsay’s “Fun City.”
Sometimes I wonder if all this silence about the “Forgotten Man” in the song of the Thirties, is some kind of conspiracy to keep the lights glowing on Broadway.
February 27, 2010
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