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.
