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From: leroysoetoro@kaga.com

https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/passed-out-passengers-trash-fill-subway- cars-amid-coronavirus-crisis/

Maybe the mayor needs to check out these images.

The subway has become a filthy, deadly homeless shelter on rails,
according to disgusted transit workers who have taken to recording and photographing the horrid conditions.

One video shot earlier this month shows cars of homeless men and women stretched out and slumbering away on an E train. In another filmed
Thursday, a man puffs on a cigarette while standing on an E car. A
homeless woman was photographed sitting on a 2 train mid-afternoon
Wednesday next to an overflowing grocery cart and plastic bags.

And in one video, a man uses the space between the cars on a 2 train as a toilet while stopped in a Brooklyn station.

“That’s straight disgusting, man,” the shocked MTA worker who saw him
exclaims in a video. “With the coronavirus, that’s f–king disgusting.”

Workers say the transit systems has never been dirtier or more packed with
the homeless as ridership has declined with stay-at-home restrictions for
all but essential workers.

The images of “essential workers” one MTA employee posted on a Facebook
page were of passed-out passengers.

“Thank you, MTA. I have to deal with homeless, mental illness and now
dudes from jail. Every f–king night there is a mother f–king problem. …
While our trains do not get clean. I have to wipe my own cab and air it
out. S–t is for the birds,” the worker wrote.

Train operator Tracey Jackson snapped a photo of a metal trash can,
complete with bag inside, that someone had dragged from the platform at Atlantic Avenue on April 7 and placed in her train. Chicken bones and
empty pizza boxes were scattered on the car floor.

“It’s reminding me of the ’80s at this point,” she said of conditions in
the transit system.

Passengers are equally outraged.

A 54-year-old resident of Middle Village Queens said she had to travel
into Manhattan this week for a meeting and was shocked by an 8 a.m. E
train packed with smelly and slumped-over homeless people.

“I can put up with a lot. I am a housekeeper — germs don’t bother me. I
don’t get grossed out too easily, but this was just unbelievable to see
all of those people,” she said.

The woman, who was wearing a mask, said she feared for her own health as
she walked through five or six cars before finding one where she felt she
could breathe. She said the homeless passengers were not wearing masks.

“It’s not fair. It’s not fair on people that have to go to work. It’s not
fair on the homeless people,” she said. “Something has to be done. This
mayor we have is just completely out of touch with reality as to what’s
going on.”

As of Friday, 84 MTA workers have died from COVID-19. Workers get two N95
masks to wear throughout the week, the agency said.

Canella Gomez, a train operator who is out on leave and is a union
activist, said he had never seen the homeless situation this dire. He
suspected many may be sick with COVID-19.

“I feel like the city is using the subway system as containment for the homeless. You have to assume that a lot of them have it. If they close the system what would they do with all these possibly infected homeless
people?” he asked.

An MTA maintenance worker who took videos earlier this month at the
Jamaica Center E train station called it the “the coronavirus capital of
the MTA system.”

The homeless tend to favor the line because it never goes outdoors along
its route to the World Trade Center.

The worker, who puts in an overnight shift, said trains are cleaned and sanitized when they are done with their runs.

“The horror begins when it comes out to the public,” he said. “The minute
it pulls into the station, you got the 100 homeless hanging out there.
This is where they live. They get on there. They lay down. They use the bathroom. They vomit. Anything you can imagine gets done.”

MTA conductor Adrienne Blocker, 28, said the homeless issue is no longer confined to after dark.

“We see it all day now,” Blocker said. “Now they’re there 24 hours.”

A frustrated Blocker posted photos she had taken of zonked-out zombie
riders on Facebook saying “The MTA is basically a mobile hotel for
homeless people right now!”

Blocker told The Post that as soon as trains are cleaned they immediately
get dirty.

“Besides the hygiene issues, we don’t really know what they have. They’re
not getting tested obviously,” Blocker said.

“They’re coughing. They’re peeing. They’re defecating in the cars. We
don’t know if they have COVID-19. They’re up in our faces every single day
as well as the other people who are taking the trains to and from work
every day.”

Sarah Feinberg, the MTA’s interim transit president, said this week that
the agency was also fed up and that the city needs to do more.

“It’s very frustrating to have this problem land in our lap,” Feinberg
told The Post Friday

She said the MTA had hired more than 150 private security guards in the
last week to enforce rules or report issues to the city, and there would
be more car cleaning.

“We are stepping up enforcement activity and those efforts now,” Feinberg
said.

Feinberg said Mayor Bill de Blasio has not responded to requests to meet
her to discuss issues in the system including one made after she was named transit head in late February.

De Blasio insisted this week that “the NYPD has been out there in force
trying to address this issue constantly.”

“If she’s losing patience, I don’t know why she hasn’t called me,” the
mayor said.

City Councilman Robert Holden and three other councilmen have called on
Gov. Andrew Cuomo to temporarily shut down the subway system to help stop coronavirus transmission, saying the city and state could find other ways
to transport essential workers.

“If any image comes close to the pending apocalypse it’s hundreds of
homeless, destitute souls huddled and sprawled out in countless train
cars,” Holden said.

The councilman encourages riders to photograph the disgraceful conditions
to show de Blasio. “He’s in denial because he doesn’t go down there. He
doesn’t know what’s happening,” Holden said.

“All New Yorkers must become a modern-day Jacob Riis to chronicle and
hopefully embarrass both the Mayor and Governor who apparently have
accepted this untenable reality,” Holden said, referring to the turn-of- the-century muckraker and urban reformer.

Cuomo has rejected any shutdown, saying the subway system is needed to
move all front-line workers to their jobs.



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