Greenwich Village is no longer so free.
The Bohemian Mecca became famous for his attitude of anything, the counterculture music scene and the confrontations with the police commit to the application of the law, found a new impressive survey.
The sixth community council of the enclosure surveyed 600 residents of the neighborhood and found 487 of them, 83%, because more police officers in the streets.
And 74% of the villagers said that the Empire needed a stronger prosecution for drug trafficking, while 80% thought that New York needed more strict bail laws, according to the first Kinds survey, carried out in February and March.
“The people are frequently criticized for being liberal, but clearly the numbers here indicate that we are not happy,” said the member of the Precinct Steve Zammarki.
No place is more emblematic of the decline than the Washington Square Park, where Bob Dylan used to sing songs about social injustice. Despite the fall of the crime throughout the city, the green space continues to be invaded by addicts and merchants, and the repeat offenders are in a loop, arrested, released and back at lunchtime, the neighbors said.
“Enough is enough,” said Trevor Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association. “Liberalism is being challenged and people are realizing that our attempts to honor some ideals are leading to sausage results.”
Sumner says he would have described himself as “quite liberal” until two years ago, but his personal points of view changed when the conditions in the park took a nossedive after the pandemic.
But it is not alone in the park. The sixth enclosure publicly publicly in X about attracting drug traffickers who exercise their trade in broad daylight in Sixth Avenue, something that an unimaginble leg would have only a few years ago.
“It is very difficult for me not to see the realities of the results in the streets. It has changed how almost everyone I know that they are active in the community are thinking of vote,” he said, blaming the reform of the bond and the changes of discovery of Albany for the endless cycle or the law.
The main serious crimes have increased over the levels prior to the pandemic, with 1,789 reported in 2024, compared to 1,534 in 2019-A 16% ascent. So far this year, serious crimes have dropped by 21%, compared to last year.
The conservative change is also appearing in the voting records, according to a subsequent analysis. Almost 13% of voters in the neighborhood supported President Trump in 2024, compared to 8% of 2020 supporters, according to the data of the Board’s elections.
Eli Klein, who runs an art gallery in Greenwich Village, grew in a very prominent liberal family: his mother Janet Benshof was the founder of the center of reproductive rights and champion on the left. But the former life of a lifetime said the party abandoned them.
“The left has the most extreme Goths instead of really going elsewhere. There are many repeat criminals in the streets. Progressives really push soft about crime things. It is difficult to believe that a great section of our population.
The residents of the village for a long time say that the free love energy of the past has become somewhat less poetic.
“There are many more crazy, unstable people. It’s just a monstrosity, it’s disconcerting,” said Philip Spinelli, 75, who lived in Christopher Street since the 1960s.
At that time, they say, they protested for a cause. Now, not so much.
“We have literal zombies walking the streets and framing it as somehow these reforms have given them a son of dignity, this is not dignity,” said Sumner.
The NYPD did not return the request for comments from the publication.