“Go look at other cities,” Mayor EricAdams warns of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to quit breaking up homeless encampments — and LA’s MacArthur Park would be a great place to start.
Once enjoyed by the mostly working-class, Latino community surrounding it, the park is now a dangerous, fentanyl-plagued drug den, where homeless gather from far and wide to shoot up, light up, pass out — and often overdose.
If the city provides sufficient assistance, Mamdani argues, it won’t have to break up homeless camps…