NYC’s Hooverville revival: Letters to the Editor — July 15, 2026
Mayor Mamdani has turned a blind eye to drug use, prostitution and disease-infected homeless encampments at the expense of Manhattan’s West Side businesses and residents (“Zo-ing back to bad ol’ days,” July 15). If it continues, we might return to the Hoovervilles of the 1930s.
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Mayor Mamdani has turned a blind eye to drug use, prostitution and disease-infected homeless encampments at the expense of Manhattan’s West Side businesses and residents (“Zo-ing back to bad ol’ days,” July 15). If it continues, we might return to the Hoovervilles of the 1930s. This is just another socialist agenda to drive taxpaying New Yorkers out of the state. The Post’s characterization of the homeless situation on the West Side is an exaggeration, the city’s response less so.
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- Mayor Mamdani has turned a blind eye to drug use, prostitution and disease-infected homeless encampments at the expense of Manhattan’s West Side businesses and residents (“Zo-ing back to bad ol’ days,” July 15). If it continues, we might return to the Hoovervilles of the 1930s.
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NYC’s Hooverville revival: Letters to the Editor — July 15, 2026
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