They need a lesson in common sense.<\/p>\n
New York University kids are whining that Washington Square Park has lost its charm now that the cops have evicted all the druggies and vagrants \u2014 even as one of their own was randomly attacked by a violent hobo this week near the green space.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the local unhoused community now almost entirely displaced, a once vibrant park is now characterized by an uncanny stillness,\u201d reported the student paper, Washington Square Park News<\/a>.<\/p>\n NYU students say they\u2019re missing characters like this one who were a constant presence in Washington Square Park. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n Students at the $60,000 a year school drew the message, \u201cWhere are our neighbors?\u201d in chalk on the park\u2019s walkways, fondly referring to the homeless junkies who\u2019d become unwanted fixture of the park\u2019s infamous northwest corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like a large community is gone,\u201d first-year student Caspin Berklee, who regularly spent time feeding pigeons in the park, is quoted as lamenting in the article. \u201cThe park was a home for them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Another student went further, repeating an actual talking point from the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n \u201cThe criminalization of poverty is never the solution to anything,\u201d said social work and public policy student Sara Karp. \u201cIt ruins the form of community that these people have built and puts them in riskier situations.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month \u2013 after the feds busted a massive drug dealing ring<\/a> \u2013 the NYPD flooded the embattled Greenwich Village landmark<\/a> with nearly 70 additional cops in a 24\/7 crackdown aimed at vanquishing junkies from the beleaguered space. Neighbors overwhelmingly cheered the cleanup<\/a>.<\/p>\n The students\u2019 lament comes as one of theirs was randomly attacked by a violent homeless man this week.<\/p>\n NYU students lamented that a large community was gone from the park. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n NYU student Amelia Lewis was attacked by a homeless man from behind. Storyful<\/p>\n The attack happened near the park on her way to class Monday morning. @AmeliaLewi33832<\/p>\n On Monday 20-year-old NYU student Amelia Lewis was walking to class, when a creepy stranger with a long history of sex crimes came up behind her, slapped her butt, yanked her hair and threw her to the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people are disgusting, and they should not be able to be walking around the streets freely targeting girls,\u201d Lewis said on X<\/a> after the attack. \u201cI should not be scared to walk to my 9:30am class.\u201d <\/p>\n Her alleged attacker, James Rizzo, 45, has a lengthy rap sheet<\/a> of crimes around the park. He was already back at it the next day, allegedly burglarizing four apartments in Washington Square Village in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping, cops said.<\/p>\n When police arrested him, they realized they had the same guy wanted in Monday\u2019s attack. He was squatting in an empty penthouse\u00a0in a university-owned building, according to the student paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n