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The burgeoning encampment spreading along Manhattan’s West Side has become a symbol of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wrongheaded homelessness policies — and nine blocks east, a mini-Skid Row in Midtown is sad evidence of his economic neglect.
Under the scaffold surrounding the shuttered Roosevelt Hotel, on a prime block just steps from Grand Central Terminal, two or more homeless people have taken up residence this month, storing their belongings — dozens of stuffed-full garbage bags and two shopping trolleys — along the facade.
Neighbors have made at least 14 calls about the encampment to 311 since early July.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times.