When liberals rule-----The UWS (New York City) is falling apart, and lefties seem too woke to care

The UWS is falling apart, and lefties seem too woke to care
"On a return visit this weekend to the Upper West Side neighborhood where I’ve lived for more than a quarter of a century, the fear in the air was palpable.
The population seemed to be reduced by about half.
New Yorkers steered around each other on the sidewalks, some of them walking in the street to avoid passing near a stranger.
A lady declined to ride the elevator with me and my children.
People are especially terrified of the subway, whose ridership is down 80 percent from normal levels.
Friday night, at a time when there would ordinarily be 50 or more people riding on any given car of the 1 train, there were about seven.
Downtown was morose, grim, broken.
Graffiti (the anarchists’ symbol and “ACAB,” for “All Cops Are Bastards”) was much in evidence.
Mask compliance is almost universal on the Upper West Side: easily 90 percent...Read all.