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New York’s revolving door of justice sprang a scary leak Saturday when a threatening, public-urinating, jagged-glass-waving homeless man was twice hauled away by cops — only to each time be quickly released to terrorize the same stretch of Broadway on the Upper West Side.
“I’ve seen him there peeing before, washing himself,” said an outraged neighbor, Israel Verchik.
The area stinks like a toilet, said Verchik, 61, one of many New Yorkers who voiced their outrage over the homeless explosion on Gotham streets.
“I live here on the second floor and I can smell it in my bedroom,” Verchik said.
“It’s outrageous that the city doesn’t do anything to help him.”
The unnamed 49-year-old vagrant, who goes by the moniker “Monk,” had been photographed urinating in the middle of Broadway traffic at 84th Street on Friday morning.
By 10:30 Saturday morning, he was back at Broadway and 80th Street, pacing and talking to himself.
He was promptly hauled off in handcuffs by cops, sources said.
The man was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Roosevelt Hospital for a mental evaluation, the sources told The Post. But hours later, he was back on Broadway, at one of his usual spots in front of a Victoria’s Secret store.
Shortly before 4 p.m., he reached into a garbage can, grabbed an empty Snapple bottle, broke it and brandished it.
“Wanna come to me? Wanna come to me?” he started shouting. “Get away from my property!”
The man, at that point shirtless, dropped the bottle after realizing his intimidating antics were being recorded on a cellphone. Still, he kept on ranting, “You want to get into a fight?”
A dozen cops soon swarmed to the scene, cuffed him and again hauled him away.
That time he was carted off to to St. Lukes Hospital, only to be back on Broadway by 9 p.m.
There he stayed about an hour and a half, pacing and poking into garbage pails.
He defecated into a Chinese newspaper at Broadway and 84th Street, then curled up one block north and went to sleep.
“It’s disgusting,” said Elton Brahja, a nearby doorman. “He pulls down his pants and goes.
“I’ve called the cops many times and they won’t come,” Brahja added. “When are they going to do something? When he does something?”
Mayor de Blasio, who had gone on the record in favor of “broken windows” policing, made a nonspecific promise to “address” the incident.
“‘Broken windows’ means addressing quality-of-life crimes and that’s a quality-of-life crime,” he said Saturday at an event in Central Park.
Everyday New Yorkers, meanwhile, were not surprised by the public toileting.
Astoria resident Janet Khan, 19, said the urine smell engulfing the subways makes her want to drive, instead.
“It’s horrible,” she said. “I never step in any liquid on the steps. I always think it’s pee and walk around it.”
She believes public urination should become a higher police priority — a view not shared by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
The Manhattan Democrat has proposed decriminalizing several low-level crimes, including public urinating, biking on the sidewalk, publicly consuming alcohol, being in a park after dark, failing to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton — an architect 20 years ago of the “broken windows” approach to policing that has been largely credited for the city’s historic drop in crime — opposes watering down quality-of-life policing.
It was a sentiment shared by many Saturday.
Brooklyn resident Chenelle Johnson, 21, said she spots panhandlers catching a snooze on city streets at virtually every hour of the day.
“It’s like they don’t have any hope and they just give up,” she said. “I don’t even just see them sleeping at night, I see them all the time.”
As Johnson spoke to a reporter in Tompkins Square Park, a vagrant approached and flashed what appeared to be a bag of K2, a synthetic type of marijuana, and asked whether anyone wanted to partake.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/12/peeing-menace-cuffed-by-cops-only-to-be-back-on-the-streets/
“I’ve seen him there peeing before, washing himself,” said an outraged neighbor, Israel Verchik.
The area stinks like a toilet, said Verchik, 61, one of many New Yorkers who voiced their outrage over the homeless explosion on Gotham streets.
“I live here on the second floor and I can smell it in my bedroom,” Verchik said.
“It’s outrageous that the city doesn’t do anything to help him.”
The unnamed 49-year-old vagrant, who goes by the moniker “Monk,” had been photographed urinating in the middle of Broadway traffic at 84th Street on Friday morning.
By 10:30 Saturday morning, he was back at Broadway and 80th Street, pacing and talking to himself.
He was promptly hauled off in handcuffs by cops, sources said.
The man was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Roosevelt Hospital for a mental evaluation, the sources told The Post. But hours later, he was back on Broadway, at one of his usual spots in front of a Victoria’s Secret store.
Shortly before 4 p.m., he reached into a garbage can, grabbed an empty Snapple bottle, broke it and brandished it.
“Wanna come to me? Wanna come to me?” he started shouting. “Get away from my property!”
The man, at that point shirtless, dropped the bottle after realizing his intimidating antics were being recorded on a cellphone. Still, he kept on ranting, “You want to get into a fight?”
A dozen cops soon swarmed to the scene, cuffed him and again hauled him away.
That time he was carted off to to St. Lukes Hospital, only to be back on Broadway by 9 p.m.
There he stayed about an hour and a half, pacing and poking into garbage pails.
He defecated into a Chinese newspaper at Broadway and 84th Street, then curled up one block north and went to sleep.
“It’s disgusting,” said Elton Brahja, a nearby doorman. “He pulls down his pants and goes.
“I’ve called the cops many times and they won’t come,” Brahja added. “When are they going to do something? When he does something?”
Mayor de Blasio, who had gone on the record in favor of “broken windows” policing, made a nonspecific promise to “address” the incident.
“‘Broken windows’ means addressing quality-of-life crimes and that’s a quality-of-life crime,” he said Saturday at an event in Central Park.
Everyday New Yorkers, meanwhile, were not surprised by the public toileting.
Astoria resident Janet Khan, 19, said the urine smell engulfing the subways makes her want to drive, instead.
“It’s horrible,” she said. “I never step in any liquid on the steps. I always think it’s pee and walk around it.”
She believes public urination should become a higher police priority — a view not shared by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
The Manhattan Democrat has proposed decriminalizing several low-level crimes, including public urinating, biking on the sidewalk, publicly consuming alcohol, being in a park after dark, failing to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton — an architect 20 years ago of the “broken windows” approach to policing that has been largely credited for the city’s historic drop in crime — opposes watering down quality-of-life policing.
It was a sentiment shared by many Saturday.
Brooklyn resident Chenelle Johnson, 21, said she spots panhandlers catching a snooze on city streets at virtually every hour of the day.
“It’s like they don’t have any hope and they just give up,” she said. “I don’t even just see them sleeping at night, I see them all the time.”
As Johnson spoke to a reporter in Tompkins Square Park, a vagrant approached and flashed what appeared to be a bag of K2, a synthetic type of marijuana, and asked whether anyone wanted to partake.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/12/peeing-menace-cuffed-by-cops-only-to-be-back-on-the-streets/
