Parents were mortified and children frightened as a drunken gang of vagrants reportedly terrorized young girls practicing at a soccer field in New York’s trending Meatpacking District.
One vagrant wore a penis mask. Another set benches ablaze. One man stripped and screamed in an unprovoked outburst. All this less than 20 feet from the “wary kids,” the New York Post reported Sunday.
The Post was at the Gansevoort Peninsula field in Hudson River Park to witness the scene this past week and quoted one of the miscreants, who screamed, “Everyone wants to party, but no one wants to pay for party!” at children and parents.
According to the Post, a man “wearing a revolting mask with a dangling penis for a nose … stripped and screamed in an unprovoked outburst at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday”:
He took off his mask to reveal something passersby said was even more frightening — his face, covered with 30 piercings, including a ring between his eyes and a menacing cluster of tiny metal studs circling his mouth, eyebrows and eyes.
Atop his head was the second part of the mask — a balaclava-type contraption featuring a giant middle finger with the words “sex,” “f–k you” and “Mr. Anger” scrawled on it.
The group, according to neighbors, got drunk at a gas station on 8th Avenue before heading to the park, where they have been known to “harass girls as young as five and threaten parks workers,” according to the report.
“It’s extremely concerning,” Jason Fernández told the Post. His daughter was practicing on the field with Gotham Girls Football Club.
“Nothing is being done,” he said. “When it comes to the kids, something has to happen. Today this guy in the mask started waving at the girls. I came back because he gave me a weird feeling.”
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Fernández also took out his shock and anger on New York’s new socialist Democrat mayor, Zohran Mamdani, while showing some compassion for the men, who very well may be homeless alcoholics.
“These men need help, but obviously they’re not getting it and because of that everyone else has to suffer,” he said. “Mamdani is terrible, absolutely terrible.”
At least two unknown members of the mob, whose numbers can swell to a dozen, stripped down and had sex on a nearby bench, the Post reported, citing a witnesses account.
“The girl was on the top of the guy. It was unbelievable, like 4 o’clock in the afternoon,” dog walker Geronimo Silva told the Post. “This city is becoming worse.”
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Another vagrant, whom parents nicknamed “Fire Bug,” recently set fires to the benches while the children practiced, one parent told the Post. Charred evidence of the fire was visible on the bench.
According to the Post:
Since the city opened the $73 million Gansevoort Peninsula in 2023 — a 5.5-acre green oasis with a sports field, beach and boardwalk — homeless people wasted little time turning the park in the swanky neighborhood — where celebs like Justin and Hailey Bieber, Ben Stiller and Jennifer Lawrence live and where a penthouse recently sold for $18 million — into their own personal crash pad and washrooms.
Encampments in the area were twice torn down last summer. The New York Police Department told the Post there have been no complaints this summer and no incidents where they responded.
People who practice at the field tell a different story. The vagrants also regularly take naked sponge baths in parks bathrooms even while children are using the facilities, parents told the news outlet.
Lowell Cauffiel recently reported for Breitbart News on the deplorable conditions in Los Angeles caused by vagrants and lack of law enforcement. He the best-selling author of the Los Angeles crime novel Below the Line and nine other crime novels and nonfiction titles. See lowellcauffiel.com for more.