A sprawling homeless encampment with roughly a dozen makeshift tents was cleared Wednesday next to the popular Stuyvesant Town restaurant Rosemary’s East — as long-suffering workers in the area ha…
— some suffering from mental health and substance abuse problems — set up nearly a dozen makeshift tents stretching for more than half of a city block on the sidewalk of First Avenue between East 20th Street and East 21st Street.
“They get dressed in the street, they take showers. Right outside. No clothes. They can get bad,” he said. “Weeks ago she came in and took a pee right here in front of my counter! What could I do?! I got the mop and I cleaned it up,” she said. Meanwhile, at least 45,563 unhoused folks were living in shelters in 2022, down from 52,409 the previous year.“It makes the new restaurant look like Calcutta,” Joan Wind, 82, said of Rosemary’s East, which opened in 2021.
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