Fearing potential unrest on November 3, wealthy New Yorkers are hiring armed guards to protect them at their expensive apartment buildings on and after Election Day, the NY Post reports.
One of the buildings mentioned is Columbus Circle’s Time Warner Center, where “managers are deploying off duty cops with ‘submachine guns’ to stand watch,” according to the article. Apparently, a source told the publication that the building is working with the NYPD and Homeland Security. In 2019, real estate developer and CEO of Related Companies Stephen Ross listed his 8,500 square foot penthouse at the building for $75 million (it’s now asking $62.5 million).
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Other buildings expected to hire guards include 432 Park Avenue, 200 East 66th Street, and Greenwich Lane at 155 West 111th Street, which had apparently hired guards for a brief time during October after an incident.
The hiring of private guards is a trend which appeared to begin earlier this year. In a June report by NY1, several building residents and business owners were revealed to be seeking extra security. Mike O’Neil, the chairman of private security company MSA Security, told the publication that “since the incidents of looting and vandalism started in the city, the request for more private security guards has increased.” At the time the article was published, the vast majority of O’Neil’s clients were retail stores, but he was beginning to get calls from property managers and apartment owners, too.
tbf if you are rich enough you always have/had private security, i.e. bodyguards.
Wouldn’t the threat be to stores/luxury retailers/department stores? Looters and rioters want tennis shoes, jewelry, and clothing right?.
No one can get past a NYC doorman!
We should all be protected. Armed guards should be brought out to protect us from the thug lowlifes destroying everything and anyone in their path
and hopefully, once trump is voted out, this particular threat will disappear,”like magic”.
We can’t blame violent acts on anybody else but the criminals. Are we going to loot and brutalize people every time we don’t get our way?
We don’t need armed guards…… what we need are politicians who aren’t soft on criminals. If these criminals were locked up in jail where they belong we wouldn’t have all these problems.
You mean criminals like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, George Papadopolous, and George Nader? I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few dozen others…
” If these criminals were locked up in jail where they belong we wouldn’t have all these problems.” should i assume the criminals you’re referring to are the republicans & ultra rich who have been decimating our democratic government since 1980?
you make a lot of sense!
when your leaders dont back NYPD and good guys cant carry guns only bad guys tou have no choice. Welcome to democratic run cities !!!
And those who now want an extra security guards are FOR Biden – isn’t that ridiculous?
Good to you, reach people, go vote for sleepy Joe. Maybe he’ll reimburse your expenses if will be elected.
How about social justice and equal opportunities? Amazon/WF made over 30 billion during the pandemic, while they fired the workers who asked for better PPE. Look around the city and it will be easy to see how many small business went out, perhaps loosing years of work and sacrifices, while big corporation have gotten tax breaks and incentives. Sadly we are the richest country with the largest poverty and homeless problem. Read “Tightrope” the book by Nicholas Christof and his wife Cheryl Dunn, or stream de documentary. I am not in favor of violence and looting, but I recognize that there are a lot of people left behind, oppressed and angry in this country. We need a lot more than “law and order”.
There are abundant opportunities for EVERYONE who wants to be a productive person in our society. No one is left out except those who are lazy without a work ethic. We need to take care of those who truly deserve our help and assistance such as the mentally and physically disabled. If so much of our hard earned money wasn’t going to those who don’t deserve the help, we would have plenty available for those who truly deserve it.
By those without a work ethic you mean Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, George Papadopolous, and George Nader? I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few dozen others…
I respectfully disagree with those among us who are privileged enough to never have been at the other end. My friend feels that her housekeeper should be happy because she gives her a job, but does she go back home to clean her own house or can she hired someone to do the housework for her? So all those workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic are lazy and our taxed hard earned money should not be sent as relief to help them? After working 25 years in public schools in New York City as a teacher and administrator I have seen enough of how our society treats people differently depending on many factors they can not control.
Absolutely
Why would anyone believe a word written in the trash tabloid that is the New York Post. All they do is enable Trump’s fear-mongering about law and order.
I’m not afraid, just educated to things you have never heard of.