Posted on November 27, 2014 by John Surico in VICE VICE, By John Surico The grim reality is that Thanksgiving 2014 represents a landmark occasion for New York City’s poor. Gotham is now experiencing Great Depression levels of homelessness, with nearly 60,000 humans sleeping inside shelters, on the streets, or down below in subway stations every single night—around 25,000 of them children. The numbers represent a culmination of the past five years, in which New York’s banking and other major industries have done great even as poverty has accelerated.
