Best recommendation of Greenwich may be our lack of mass transit

Reader Hankster sends along this delightful vignette:

City subways filled with passed-out passengers, urine, and trash.

The subway has become a filthy, deadly homeless shelter on rails, according to disgusted transit workers who have taken to recording and photographing the horrid conditions.

One video shot earlier this month shows cars of homeless men and women stretched out and slumbering away on an E train. In another filmed Thursday, a man puffs on a cigarette while standing on an E car. A homeless woman was photographed sitting on a 2 train mid-afternoon Wednesday next to an overflowing grocery cart and plastic bags.

And in one video, a man uses the space between the cars on a 2 train as a toilet while stopped in a Brooklyn station.

“That’s straight disgusting, man,” the shocked MTA worker who saw him exclaims in a video. “With the coronavirus, that’s f–king disgusting.”

Workers say the transit systems has never been dirtier or more packed with the homeless as ridership has declined with stay-at-home restrictions for all but essential workers.

The images of “essential workers” one MTA employee posted on a Facebook page were of passed-out passengers.

“Thank you, MTA. I have to deal with homeless, mental illness and now dudes from jail. Every f–king night there is a mother f–king problem. … While our trains do not get clean. I have to wipe my own cab and air it out. S–t is for the birds,” the worker wrote.

“They’re coughing. They’re peeing. They’re defecating in the cars. We don’t know if they have COVID-19. They’re up in our faces every single day as well as the other people who are taking the trains to and from work every day.”

De Blasio, who uses a chauffeured SUV to move around the city, denies there’s anything wrong with this situation, and as his fellow communists tighten their grip on the city, the “new normal” can only add to the suburbs’ appeal. That assumes the new, transformed economy will generate paying jobs in the next few years after the election, which may be assuming too much.