Former Real Housewives of New York star Leah McSweeney has said she’s ready to flee the city amid rising crime and drug problems.
Posting to Instagram on Tuesday, the New York native, 41, detailed some of the horrors she’d witnessed in the deteriorating metropolis before revealing that her teenage daughter was almost attacked on the subway.
‘People are smoking crack for breakfast in Times Square,’ she said into the camera as she trudged down one of New York’s dreary, wet streets.
‘My daughter also had someone on the train tell her that they were going to turn her into a pile of meat on the floor,’ she continued.
McSweeney finished, ‘And I’ll be leaving New York as soon as possible.’
Former Real Housewives of New York star Leah McSweeney has said she’s ready to flee the city amid rising crime and drug problems
Posting to Instagram on Tuesday, the New York native, 41, detailed some of the horrors she’d witnessed in the deteriorating metropolis
‘My daughter also had someone on the train tell her that they were going to turn her into a pile of meat on the floor,’ she continued
McSweeney starred on The Real Housewives of New York City for two seasons (pictured) and has also appeared on Love & Hip-Hop: New York
The reality star and fashion designer was born in Manhattan and has spent her entire life in New York.
She appeared on the Real Housewives of New York City and Love & Hip-Hop: New York and is a longtime fixture of downtown New York’s social scene.
Despite her passion for the city, McSweeney has hinted over the past year that she’s eyeing a move to Florida.
The Married to the Mob founder, who converted to Judaism in 2022, said last year, ‘I love NYC but Miami is growing on me.’
McSweeney’s revelation comes just days after fellow RHONY star Bethenny Frankel claimed that she was punched on the streets of the Big Apple.
Frankel, 53, shared the shocking news on social media after TikTok user Mikayla Toninato went viral after revealing that a man came up and ‘hit me in the face’.
‘This is insane bc this happened to me a few months ago but I was embarrassed to say,’ Frankel wrote in the comments section.
Despite her longtime love of New York, McSweeney has hinted over the past year that she’s eyeing a move to Miami, Florida
The reality star and designer is pictured posing on the trash-strewn streets of New York
Frankel was born and raised in New York, but relocated to Connecticut a few years ago after citing safety concerns for herself and her teenage daughter Bryn.
‘I don’t feel totally safe. I’m not going to lie,’ she told Fox 5 NY in 2022.
‘I walk with my daughter. We had multiple incidents. She cringes now. She won’t walk down the street without digging into my hand. It’s not what it used to be,’ she continued.
‘Instagram makes it seem it vines outside restaurants and truffle cheese and everything is ok, but that’s the social life, and the night-life. That’s not what’s going on day to day.’
Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate suffered a similar random attack on the streets of New York – recounting it on her own TikTok page.
‘You guys I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,’ she said.
‘Oh my God, it was so bad I can’t even talk,’ she added.
McSweeney’s revelation comes just days after fellow RHONY star Bethenny Frankel (pictured) claimed that she was punched on the streets of the Big Apple
Frankel claimed that she was randomly attacked at a bakery on the Upper West Side
Frankel was born and raised in New York, but relocated to Connecticut a few years ago after citing safety concerns for herself and her daughter Bryn
A third TikTok user named Olivia Brand recounted her assault in the Big Apple, which took place on March 17.
She said she was walking and ‘literally got punched in the head on the sidewalk. He goes, “Sorry,” then punches me in the head.’
Olivia added: ‘Holy c**p, what the hell just happened? Oh my God.’
According to Page Six, more than 25 women have revealed on TikTok they were randomly attacked in New York City in the past few months.
The growing number of random punching attacks in New York City seemingly appears to part of a disturbing trend called the knockout game – where strangers punch random strangers in New York City with the intent of ‘punching them unconscious.’
TikTok user Mikayla Toninato went viral after revealing that a man came up and ‘hit me in the face’
Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate suffered a similar random attack on the streets of New York – recounting it on her own TikTok page
Last week, New York police arrested a second man accused of randomly punching women in the face on the streets of Manhattan.
The second suspect, Mallik Miah, 30, was arrested Thursday and charged with allegedly assaulting 27-year-old Mikayla Toninato in Greenwich Village in a broad daylight attack.
He has since been freed on supervised release, and has not been linked to any of the other assaults plaguing women in the Big Apple in recent weeks.
Toninato took to her social media page immediately after the attack – which just so happened to have occurred around the same time that influencer Halley Kate McGookin was also assaulted.
McGookin’s alleged attacker, Skiboky Stora, 40, was arraigned in court last Thursday.
At least four other New York City women saying they have also been subjected to the seemingly random attacks in recent weeks.
