Pershing Square — Local services in Los Angeles

The station itself is ok, but once you step outside of the station, you’re in a dystopian nightmare. We have decided it’s humane to let actively psychotic people who have no capacity to make a medical decision for themselves just live on the streets and intimidate your grandmother walking home. Mentally ill people screaming, half naked homeless men, drug addicts. And not just a few, dozens. On a random Sunday afternoon, I saw two bewildered French tourists waiting for a bus, 3 other pedestrians, and maybe 20 mentally ill/homeless, and 4-5 people smoking not-weed out of a glass pipe. This was a Sunday AFTERNOON. Not all of LA is this bad, but this is now...

Horrible station. Every afternoon at around 5:10pm they turn off the escalators going down without any notice. It has been going on for a couple of months now. I am pregnant and the only way I could get down is to use their nasty elevator that stinks like a dirty toilet. All the time there are a lot of ghetto people hanging out outside this station. Some are homeless & some smokes weeds. I couldn't breathe until I get to 550 bldg. I hope the city could do...

I enjoy feeding the pigeons, and after some years of regularly feeding them, in the area, they now congregate on the steps at 5th and Hill. It’s pretty cute. They’re hungry birds, and, besides myself, several other people come at unknown intervals to feed them, but they’re always hungry when I show up, and sometimes they’ll follow me, as I’m leaving, trying to get more...