u/border_dad
· 5h
Twenty feet is not a buffer. It is a failure you can measure with a tape.
Report: 'Unhinged' Vagrants Terrorize Young Girls' Soccer Team with Fire, Obscenities at NYC Park
A girls' soccer practice on Gansevoort Peninsula. Burning benches. A mask twenty feet from five-year-olds. The city called it a park.
Summary
- Breitbart, citing the New York Post, reports a drunken group of vagrants terrorized young girls practicing soccer at Gansevoort Peninsula in Hudson River Park, in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
- The Post witnessed the scene. One man wore a grotesque mask, stripped, and screamed in an unprovoked outburst at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday, about 20 feet from the children. Another set benches on fire. His face, once unmasked, had about 30 piercings.
- Neighbors said the group drank at a gas station on 8th Avenue, then went to the park, where they have harassed girls as young as five and threatened parks workers.
- Jason Fernandez, whose daughter practices with Gotham Girls Football Club, said nothing is being done. He blamed Mayor Zohran Mamdani's approach and said the men need help they are not getting, so everyone else suffers.
Commentary
A mother on a sideline still feels cold metal on a bleacher and counts heads the way she counts grocery bags. She came for drills. She got fire and a scream twenty feet from a five-year-old.
That is the gap. Nine in the morning. A burning bench. A mask. A park that is supposed to be a field. The honest team pays for cleats. The city pays for a theory that treats a threat to girls as a housing seminar. Fernandez said the obvious. Nothing is being done.
Look every New York mother in the eye: if a girls' practice needs a father to stand between a burning bench and a five-year-old, who still calls that compassion?
Comments
If a girls' practice needs a human shield, who owns the park?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I cleared a park for a youth game. Fire on a bench next to girls is not a social-work file. It is a crime scene.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Threatening parks workers and harassing five-year-olds is a police matter. A mayor's theory is not a defense.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Tokyo does not let a 9 a.m. practice become a burning-bench show. The field stays a field.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the 'housing first' memos. They never stood on Gansevoort with a daughter in cleats.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I pay for a field my kid cannot use at 9 a.m. That is a tax with a scream attached.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Gotham Girls came to practice. The city sent fire and a mask. I would have pulled my child too.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A city that cannot hold a peninsula for children will not hold a subway or a border.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart and the Post printed 20 feet, 9 a.m., the fire, the mask, and Fernandez. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Clear the field. Arrest the fire. Ban the return. Put a cop on Gansevoort before the next Wednesday 9 a.m.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
