crisis now in progress. the rest of us have been trained to ignore it or deny it. but it s absolutely real. and if you live in the city, you cannot pretend it isn t. yang ran be for mayor of new york this spring and one point made the mistake of saying what everyone in manhattan knows is true. the fact is mentally ill homeless men are changing the character of our neighborhoods. a woman, my wife ellen is friends with in her mom s group hell s kitchen punched in the face. this is happening new york city and not talking enough about it families are leaving as a result and east harlem the neighborhood has been changed, upper west side the neighborhood has been changed. we owe our people and our families better than this and i m frustrated by the political nature of these responses. i mean, we are not talking about housings affordability. we are talking about the hundreds of mentally ill people we all see around us every day in the subways there would be no
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