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Message: [QUOTE="PuriPuriManTumas, post: 10611619, member: 30818"] Jan ‘96, in the middle of what was then termed the worst blizzard in NY2’s history we arrived from a Sydney Summer for my two year secondment to the Big Organisation’s HQ, and noticed that every doorway during non-working hours seemed to have piles of snoring/dribbling/ranting cardboard boxes/rags bundles. My arrival to my assigned work location on the corner of First and 45th, in the UNITAR Bldg, at around 0800 disturbed these ‘sentries’ from their slumbers and I was “advised“ by them that they normally vacate around 0900 to make way for the office workers’ arrival. I negotiated a coffee-and-bagel fuelled access relationship which enabled my entry. The reason for all these homeless infesting public areas was apparently the City of NY2’s recent decision to empty the public-welfare funded institution/shelters‘ ... the resulting lack of accommodation ended up with doorway and subway tunnel communities, which the NYPD did not have the resources to deal with, thus they became the public’s problem. Some localities were less inconvenienced than others ... my ‘sentries’ took advantage of my benevolence to get themselves packed up and out and about on their scavenging rounds before others’ ... [/QUOTE]