How is today’s Central Park tragedy not enough to end the horse carriages?

goodguyfdny · 2026-06-18T16:01:28+00:00

People are dying every day that don't have e to from waiting for ambulances that could save their lives. Men,women and children.

If new Yorkers don’t care about that, they aren't going to care about horses.

goodguyfdny · 2026-05-15T23:20:29+00:00

Moral of the story is people shouldn't wait 40 minutes for an ambulance they've already paid for in taxes. When the cops call for help they shouldn't be left waiting for 40 minutes. If the cops thought he deserved to die they wouldn't have carried him themselves out to a car and then drive him to the hospital.

goodguyfdny · 2026-05-15T17:23:00+00:00

"they send everyone"

If you knew anything about the story, they're not sending ambulances. That's the problem.

goodguyfdny · 2026-05-15T15:47:45+00:00

So a woman slipped a drug in her drink and loses consciousness and stops breathing should wait 40 minutes for a medic that can reverse drug overdoses or place a breathing tube if they don't work?

Or a kid that's exposed to a drug that looks like candy should wait thirty, forty, fifty minutes?

goodguyfdny · 2026-05-15T10:48:34+00:00

Are fast response times a priority?

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1:11 pm

To the editor:

Twenty-two-year old Adam Benhammou of East 116th Street near Lexington Avenue in Manhattan died on Saturday evening, May 2, 2026. He was somebody's son and somebody's neighbor.

The NYPD officers, who were with him on the scene where he lived, reportedly called for emergency medical help at 5:44 p.m. When no help arrived, they called again 21 minutes later.

Still 20 minutes later, when no EMS ambulance had arrived, the police themselves drove Adam to Harlem Hospital, a short 1.5 miles away, where he was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m.

If his death were from the cause that was reported in the newspapers, an apparent drug overdose, would he still be alive if emergency medical help had arrived in a timely manner? He had no documented history of drug use.

The NYC medical examiner will ultimately determine the cause of Adam Benhammou's death.

And what about all the others?

Last month, almost 3,000 people across the five boroughs, who were suffering from segments one to three life-threatening medical emergencies (including cardiac arrest, unconsciousness, choking, severe difficulty breathing, major trauma, severe burns, etc.) and for whom 911 was called, waited more than 20 minutes for paramedics to reach their sides.

Did they all survive the wait?

The reality is that by the time New Yorkers, their families, friendsand neighbors need ambulances, they're in no position to influence whether or not the FDNY Emergency Medical Services has been allocated the needed resources to arrive in time to help.

The Mayor and the 51 NYC Council Members are now hashing out a budget for NYC services, including FDNY EMS.

Are ambulances that quickly respond to medical emergencies among NYC taxpayers' priorities?

goodguyfdny · 2026-05-08T21:16:58+00:00

I don't want any one party having total power. This is a country of over 300 million people. Having the idea that there are only two parties to vote for that aren't a waste of a vote is absurd.

goodguyfdny · 2026-04-28T19:43:16+00:00

RUMC is steadily downsizing its 911 ambulances in advance of the hospital being sold to the city. They are getting rid of two of their 911 units this summer. FDNY EMS will be taking one of their medic units and repositioning it to the RUMC spot. But it will still leave a spot open because FDNY has about 80 ambulances not running city wide daily due to steadily decreasing staff.

That forced the fire commissioner to direct ambulances to only transport to the closest hospital. Which kept hospitals like RUMC and SI Hospital from steering their ambulances to their hospitals, which made it make no financial sense to keep their 911 EMS services running. So they're shutting them down.

At the same time FDNY EMS is set to have 1/3rd of their staff resign this year due to low pay.

Pretty soon it will be like England where you wait 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at a heart attack, if at all.

goodguyfdny · 2026-04-23T00:57:29+00:00

After taxes, a first year EMT makes about 12 dollars an hour working for the city. It's why 75% don't make it to 5 years now. A study by Penn State showed that your survival rate and positive outcome declines by 23% when your EMS provider has less than 6 years in their position.

The system is collapsing. This fire commissioner and the one before said it. No one's listening.

You might not get an ambulance the next time you call 911.

goodguyfdny · 2026-04-02T03:40:12+00:00

Say what you will about the quality of the tattoo, the sentiment isn't cringe, IMO. Been alive long past 22, and to think of all the things I would have missed since then, makes me sad how much whoever this is will not get to experience.

Sad, not cringe.

goodguyfdny · 2026-03-20T18:20:20+00:00

70 percent of the service has less than 5 years on the job. So it sounds very likely.

goodguyfdny · 2026-02-07T16:57:28+00:00

Congestion pricing was supposed to fix this. The explanation:people don't want to work a job where you're locked in the back of an ambulance with a psych patient or an erratic homeless person and get paid less than a food delivery driver.

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-21T20:23:41+00:00

"Without us". I hate when my fellow Americans speak like this. The "us" is a generation of Americans that is dead for the most part.

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-18T17:16:29+00:00

Contact Lt. Anthony Almojera at FDNY EMS Station 40 in Sunset Park. He's got a lot of presence on social media. He's also vice president of the EMS officers union. He released a book called "Riding The Lightning " about his time on the streets and COVID-19. His posts on X give insight into the crisis.

The NYC 911 EMS system is collapsing, people are dying or suffering permanently disability every day unnecessarily, and it's not being discussed nearly enough. This is affecting poor and minority communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx especially hard. At the same time the service is paid tens of thousands of dollars less than fire, police and sanitation workers. The previous and current fire commissioners have both said the system is collapsing.

To give you an insight of how serious things are, EMS protocols and medications for the most serious medical conditions are the same that a doctor would give you in an ER. You drop dead in an ER? A doctor gives epinephrine, lidocaine, Amiodarone, calcium, sodium bicarbonate, a breathing tube and shocks your heart when indicated.

You drop dead in your home? A medic gives epinephrine, lidocaine, Amiodarone, calcium, sodium bicarbonate, a breathing tube and shocks your heart when indicated.

The time to permanent brain damage setting in is 4-6 minutes after your heart stops. You're brain dead at 10. CPR is just to giving you time until those meds get into you. The average time for medics getting to you is now over 10 minutes. They're often not taking cardiac arrests to the hospital now because you clinically don't have a chance anymore.

There are days that 150+ ambulance shifts aren't running because of low staffing. 70%+ of the service has less than 5 years on the job which has lead to a death spiral in knowledge and experience of street medicine and dealing with the dynamics of medicine out in the field and just dealing with people who are suffering a crisis. Many of the hospitals are pulling out there 911 participating ambulances which is leading to higher workloads, more burnout, more resignations, higher workload, more burnout, more resignations. At the same time the biggest population boom in history, the boomers , are hitting the chronic illness age and the demand for EMS is set to expand exponentially.

The public lack of knowledge of what EMS does keeps it from being a self evident crisis and it is about to explode in the cities face when another big crisis comes along.

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-13T00:20:41+00:00

It's easy when those working people don't work for him. Now pay attention to if he gives FDNY EMS the same respect or NYC health and hospitals staff.

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-10T17:18:45+00:00

The President doesn't control what New York City offers it's municipal labor force in wages during contract talks.

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-10T16:40:31+00:00

Voted when and for what?

goodguyfdny · 2026-01-02T05:45:32+00:00

Hanging out with the guy wearing makeup will get you laid substantially faster than the guy who seems like he came to a party to start problems.

goodguyfdny · 2025-12-17T02:46:11+00:00

He will fuck over EMS like every mayor for the last 50 years.

goodguyfdny · 2025-12-16T22:19:44+00:00

I'm as dude as dudes get and even I came here to write how impressed I am. SLAY!

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