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Story: Forest Hills resident launches project to bring a
bronze statue of Spider-Man to MacDonald Park
Summary: In an eff ort to bring joy and pride to the
community, longtime Forest Hills resident Larry Ng
is organizing a community project to bring a life-size,
bronze Spider-Man statue to MacDonald Park.
Reach: 6,641 (as of 3/7/2022)
Make the creeps walk
New Yorkers deserve a subway
system that’s reliable, swift and safe.
Moreover, the city’s economic recovery
from the COVID-19 pandemic is also
dependent upon those qualities.
But even as the MTA set a new
post-omicron ridership record on
March 1, the city is battling an uptick
in transit crime, which was up 75% in
January. It prompted the Adams administration
to put in place a subway
safety plan bringing in additional
officers and resources to restore a
sense of safety and security within
the transit system.
Some of the crimes the NYPD is battling
in the subways are truly ghastly.
Along with assaults and robberies, cops
are dealing with sex criminals groping
riders or masturbating in public view.
In one particularly shocking case, a
deviant smeared a woman’s face with
human feces at a Bronx subway station.
These acts are truly deplorable, and
warrant more than just jail time.
The former Cuomo administration
included in the 2020 budget the
“Transit Trespass Provision,” a law
prohibiting repeat and “high-risk”
sex offenders from using the New York
City subway system for three years.
Criminal justice and transit advocates
blasted the idea, saying it’s
almost impossible to enforce and
amounted to government overreach
and demonization.
We can’t expect the MTA or the
NYPD to patrol all 472 subway stations
every day to prevent banned individuals
from entering the system. So on its
face, a ban on offenders would be unenforceable
However, the ban can still have an
impact on catching criminals for new
offenses within the subway system.
Violating the ban would mean an additional
would result in additional jail time
upon conviction.
If the threat of extra punishment is
enough to convince a repeat offender
to stay out of the subway system, then
the ban will have done its job.
Riding the subway system is not an
unalienable right for a New Yorker.
Anyone who uses the subways to commit
heinous crimes against passengers
should lose the privilege of sharing a
reliable, swift and safe system with
others — either for a specific period
of time, or permanently.
They can take a bus, ride a bike,
drive a car or use their own two feet.
But the creeps who terrorize our subway
system to harm riders should be
told to stay away from our subways.
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