Posted on August 25, 2015 by Jen Chung in Gothamist Gothamist, By Jen Chung This morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough insisted that NYC has gone back into the bad old days, parroting the counterfactual narrative dished out by the tabloids in the dog days of summer. “Have we noticed what’s happened to the city? The homeless are all over the city, increasingly seen all through Central Park, all over the Upper West Side,” Scarborough said. “I don’t live here most of the time anymore. This is what it looked like in the ’80s, in the ’70s, we’re moving back to that direction. If anyone thinks it’s more humane to sleep outside, exposed, in the elements, than it is to sleep in the shelters that we have all throughout the city, then they don’t understand… I’ve had a lot of friends say they’ll move out if this continues.”
