Anarchy In The Bronx Continues

Security guards continue to strike in the Bronx:

Although police officials say patrols of Co-op City have increased since the strike began, many of its older residents say they no longer go out at night. (Those 65 and over make up as much as one-sixth of Co-op City’s population.)

Some women do not venture into basement laundry rooms. Some parents refuse to let children out after dinner. And residents speak ominously about what might happen to their high-rise village if the strike drags on.

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Joyce Liston, 73, who has lived in Co-op City since 1999, said that she had attended functions at the complex three to four times a week for years, but that she had been out after dark only once since the strike began.

“It makes me very scared to go out at night,” she said. “I make sure I’m in my house by 6 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.”

Authorities maintain that crime has not gone up since the private patrol officers went on strike March 15.