Horrifying details emerge about drug users, mentally ill living on streets on Manhattan's West Side

A New York City councilman has declared a humanitarian crisis on Manhattan's West Side and demanded assistance from City Hall in a letter addressed to Mayor Eric Adams.

A New York City councilman has declared a humanitarian crisis on Manhattan's West Side, painting a grim picture of streets lined with drug-abusing, mentally ill homeless people in a letter addressed to Mayor Eric Adams. Councilman Erik Bottcher, who represents Manhattan's third district, pleaded with Adams for 'immediate assistance in addressing the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the streets and subways of New York City' in a letter dated July 18, 2024.

But some homeless people are turning it into a shower experience — even using soap, as one hotel guest complained in an online review,' the outlet wrote. Others come into the hotel 'cursing us out,' Rocky Caban, 45, the hotel’s front desk supervisor, told the Post. 'They try to hit us and everything. We got the guard outside to try to stop them from coming inside,' he said. 'Everyday we gotta go through this. I see the same people every day.

Our neighborhoods need help right now,' he wrote. 'The status quo cannot be allowed to continue. The mayor's office did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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