“The security certainly gave me peace of mind.” Several residents blame Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s policies for allowing open drug use. The Village is a very liberal area.’ Well, I’ve lost my liberal-ness on this. “We have residents saying, ‘We’re a liberal city. Private guards was the only logical way to combat the chaos of a revolving-door justice system, he said. Resident Brian Maloney said his neighborhood of 16 years is suffering from an influx of emotionally disturbed drug addicts and an exodus of cops, made all the worse by bail reform and soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The West 4th Mac/6th Block Association hired security officers strapped with pistols from Black Tie Protection Services of upstate Monroe, to surveil West Fourth Street between MacDougal Street and Sixth Avenue for the month of August at various hours of the day.
Wild Wild West Village: This celeb-packed NYC nabe is the epicenter of rising Big Apple crimeĬrime and quality-of-life complaints have gotten so bad in Greenwich Village, a community group contracted armed guards to patrol their street and stop chronic drug dealing, crack smoking and public defecation. Sent packing: NYC ‘grifter’ finally evicted after living rent-free in pricey nabe for 3 years West Village ‘grifter’ finally locked out of apartment after eviction The former home of Diane von Furstenberg’s granddaughter asks $10M