Posted on 04/29/2023 11:29:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Upper Manhattan subway station is a needle graveyard, with the tracks littered with hundreds of used syringes tossed by junkies after they shoot up on the platforms, straphangers say.
“My husband doesn’t let me go out by myself [to the station] at night, he’s horrified,” said chef Laura Licona, 49, of the cavernous 1 Line transit hub at West 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. “The drug use has been a problem and compounded big time.”
The Post recently witnessed a half-dozen junkies injecting themselves there, just a few yards away from parents and elementary school children. […]
The station’s drug crisis “exploded” in the wake of the pandemic, along with the opening of a nearby OnPoint overdose prevention center in late 2021, an MTA cleaner said.
At the “safe injection” site, addicts can get high under medical supervision and are given clean paraphernalia to inject or snort their drug of choice, either on-site or elsewhere. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Simply another symptom of a dying society.
Island labor camp.
where do they get the money for their drugs?
Thank a Democrat.
Gee...I remember people arguing in favor of needle exchange programs...I knew they were lying then, as I know they are lying now. If used needles were exchanged, why are there millions of them lying around everywhere needle exchange programs exist?
North of about 96th Street, it all turns to crap.
A contingent of terminally ill armed senior citizens could put a permanent end to that nonsense, reminiscent of the Star Chamber.
Yeppers, the demencraps are rolling in the money.. Taxpayers are supplying all those needles..
Free needle anyone.??
Cars are bad.
Public housing is good.
private property is bad..
How would we like living in the same building with that filth.? A demoncrat at every turn.... :(
Tourist: You know when I close my eyes here I could imagine I was still back in San Francisco.
When the anti-American overpraised little nerd Spike Lee was filming one of his movies on the streets in New York City the crew would go in and get the real children out who were playing in the gutter with old condoms and used syringes (in the peak AIDS fear days). They would clean the street and then bring in the child extras and actors in colorful Oshkosh bib overalls and knit shirts and beanies. Then the shooting of the scene could begin.
Panhandling. theft, prostitution....
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