New York City’s Homeless Are Pawns for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Political Agenda
The new mayor’s refusal to clean up vagrant encampments leads to frozen corpses and blighted neighborhoods.
By BETSY McCAUGHEY
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BETSY McCAUGHEY
New York, New York
Betsy McCaughey is a Columnist of The New York Sun.
Ms. McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, is a candidate for governor of Connecticut.
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