Thousands of free harm-reduction and sanitary supplies have been dispensed by the devices, but the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene quietly halted new installations in May.
From the article these machines are somehow $75k a pop. They didn’t do all 10 because there weren’t enough eligible organizations to run each one. I wonder how many machines Elon or Bezos could afford to put into U.S. cities?
^Sydney Atkinson, 36, who runs a barber shop on Central Avenue in Far Rockaway, said that at first he was worried that a vending machine across the street would bring new people who use drugs into the area.
”First couple weeks it had a bad reputation,” he said. “But people use it, and other people have kind of forgotten about it and go about their business as usual.”
WOW, it’s almost like being a NIMBY asshole is not actually justified.
From the article these machines are somehow $75k a pop. They didn’t do all 10 because there weren’t enough eligible organizations to run each one. I wonder how many machines Elon or Bezos could afford to put into U.S. cities?
WOW, it’s almost like being a NIMBY asshole is not actually justified.