“There aren’t very many panhandlers left, in all fairness to the MTA,” Mayor Bloomberg claimed at a press conference yesterday, on kind of a random tangent. “Come on.” You come on. If there aren’t many panhandlers on the subway, what’s with the people who announce their awful life story five young kids, can’t work because of crippling back pain, sister needs an operation, house washed away in a typhoon to our entire subway car almost every day? Just looking for some encouragement? [NYDN]
