Mayor Bloomberg had folks questioning what planet he was on Monday when he declared "there aren't very many panhandlers left" in city subways.
Bloomberg got irritated when the question of panhandlers came up in a press conference.
He cut off the questioner, saying, "There aren't very many panhandlers left, in all fairness to the MTA. Come on."
Advocates quickly suggested our billionaire mayor's sight may be clouded by the security detail around him when he travels from the upper East Side to City Hall on the subway.
Joel Berg, head of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, called the remark "absurd" and said it "bears no relation to reality."
Saying the mayor lives in an entirely different city "from the one that I and 8 million other New Yorkers live in," Berg added, "To quote that great statistician, Chico Marx, 'Who you gonna believe - me or your eyes?'"
Maybe all the panhandlers and homeless in the subway went to a Broadway play and that's why Bloomberg doesn't see them?
Maybe they don't ride in the two SUVs that take him to his preferred subway stop.
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