Junior’s Restaurant honcho serves up hard truths on NYC crime, migrants and social decay: ‘We want our city back’
NY Post
Alan Rosen, who owns legendary cheesecake empire Junior’s, has had enough: “We feel uneasy. We feel unsafe. We want our city back,” he thundered to The Post.
Rosen speaks for all New York here; a Citizens Budget Commission survey shows that only half of Gothamites plan to stay over the next five years — while just 30% said they’re happy living here.
And — tellingly — only 37% say safety in their nabe is excellent or good; only 50% say they feel safe riding the subway during the day, down from around 80% on 2017.
Not shockingly, the fear and dissatisfaction are concentrated among less-white, less-affluent groups.
And this is not the result of phantom “perceptions,” for all the yammering to the contrary by lefty media and City Hall.
Rosen’s right on target, right across the board.
