The ugly story of deranged stabbing Ramon Rivera has somehow become even uglier.
Residents – including recent releases from Rikers – have done so According to the letter, they even threatened and robbed people who worked in the area.
A letter bomb reveals the extent to which the Bellevue Men’s Shelter, where Rivera lived after his embarrassing early release from prison, has long been a hive of menace and disorder.
The letter comes from Joel Marcus, a businessman behind the Alexandria Center for Life Science, which is located right next to Bellevue.
One of Rivera’s victims was killed just steps from the building.
Alexandria is the city’s first and only commercial life sciences campus.
When it was built in 2006, the letter states, the city made noise about moving the problematic shelter (which is known to be dangerous).
New York never did that. On the contrary.
According to the letter, the Ministry of City Planning even had the audacity to go after Alexandria for daring to partially close one of its front gates due to the endless stream of vagrants passing through the construction plaza.
These creeps reportedly threaten passersby, try to use the sidewalk as a dormitory, drag their belongings with them, and brandish weapons.
Even from inside the shelter, the residents pose a threat.
Their habit of throwing things through their windows onto the Alexandria campus became so bad, the letter said Alexandria had to pay for installing window protection on the facade of the shelter.
Here’s an idea: What about it? not Putting places like this in the middle of Gotham’s busy residential and commercial areas? How about a new home on Rikers Island? Or maybe one completely outside the city?
As things stand now, so is the city portion the forces of disorder, as they punish the law-abiding for trying to defend themselves.
Hmmmmmm. Sounds very familiar: just ask Daniel Penny or Jose Alba.
Ramon Rivera’s murderous rampage is the inevitable and toxic fruit of the policy thinking behind it, in which lowlifes and dangerously insane people are first-class citizens and everyone else comes second.
Without near-total political change in Gotham and Albany, it’s only a matter of time until the next Rivera emerges for a rampage.
