#0908 – Junkies Transform Part Of NYC’s Midtown Into A “Shooting Gallery”

Drug Use

A band of junkies has transformed Broadway in Midtown Manhattan into “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 New York Post reports.

Reporters from The Post snapped several pictures of junkies shooting up at a pedestrian plaza at Broadway and West 40th Street. They found syringes on the ground and called the area “mini needle park.”

“They’ve taken over the tables, blatantly using needles and shooting up heroin all day long,” said a city worker who asked only to 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.”

Edgar Rivera, a construction worker in the area, said the junkies sleep on the ground and occasional ambulance visits are seen; he noted the same group of junkies congregate daily and shoot up heroin in broad daylight.

Another city employee said the situation has gotten worse over the years:

“Disappointing the way they discard all the syringes. It’s not the safest,” the man said who didn’t want to be identified. “In the last year, it’s gotten really bad. I’ve been seeing more syringes, discarded syringes, ever since they started coming in.”

As junkies takeover Midtown Manhattan, we’ve outlined in a series of reports, over the last couple of weeks, the area is a ghost town. Unemployment is high in the city, which can influence illegal drug use due to psychological distress.

Here’s another liberal utopia city, San Francisco, imploding under the weight of “crack and heroin everwhere.” 

With that being said, a crushing recession and high unemployment in Midtown and across the entire country, well, it’s entirely possible drug usage continues to soar as America implodes from within.

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