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2020-07-29 -Land of the Free

Apparent junkies turn stretch of NYC’s Midtown into a shooting gallery

[NYPOST] A cluster of junkies has turned Broadway into a shooting gallery, injecting drugs unhampered in broad daylight and then shuffling around in a zonked-out stupor, seemingly oblivious to the Midtown bustle around them, The Post has learned.If that wasn’t enough, the addicts are peppering the area with used syringes, turning individual planters on 40th Street and Broadway into mini needle parks.

"They’ve taken over the tables, blatantly using needles and shooting up heroin all day long," said a local worker who asked that he only be identified as James. "There’s no police action, there’s no reach-out. There’s nobody preventing this, and you know we’ve had multiple calls to 311 but nobody really responds. It’s becoming a real problem."

He called his own 311 calls "futile exercises."

The Post spotted several of the spent needles dumped at the scene — and even caught one of the vagrants shooting up out in the open on Tuesday afternoon, with no one stepping in or saying a word.

Posted by Fred 2020-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 What 'midtown bustle' are they talking about? Everything I've read indicates Manhattan's dead or on life support.

Posted by Raj 2020-07-29 01:07|| 2020-07-29 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 If you wanted to get rid of them just give them enough to all overdose on.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-29 07:41|| 2020-07-29 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Somebody's giving them free, unused syringes. They think they're doing a good thing, preventing infections, but they're really enabling the junkies to destroy not only themselves but the entire city as well.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-29 11:03|| 2020-07-29 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 In my day the surest signs of increased drug enforcement were finding dead junkies with the needle still I’m thier arm. The dealers at the street level were moving uncut or only slightly cut product with much higher purity and the junkies were gone in the first minute. They wanted to unload product to avoid being caught with inventory and as one dealer told me, there’s always more junkies.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-07-29 12:31|| 2020-07-29 12:31|| Front Page Top

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