Drug addicts take over NYC’s Midtown, injecting heroin in broad daylight

• A group of drug addicts has been spotted injecting drugs in public and in broad daylight in New York City’s Midtown.
• The junkies also littered nearby planters with their used syringes.
• Local workers said that the situation has gotten worse in the past year but has been unchecked by authorities.

A group of drug addicts has reportedly taken over Broadway in New York City. They were spotted injecting drugs in public and in broad daylight, seemingly unchecked by authorities.

Aside from turning NYC’s Midtown into their personal shooting gallery, the junkies also left behind their used syringes in planters along 40th Street and Broadway.

One vagrant was even caught injecting drugs in public on Tuesday afternoon, but no one stepped in.

A local worker, who asked to be identified as James, remarked, “They’ve taken over the tables, blatantly using needles and shooting up heroin all day long.”

“There’s no police action, there’s no reach-out,” he continued. He added that his own calls to 311 have been “futile exercises.”

“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 argued.

One resident shared a photo showing four people seemingly passed out at one of the tables, with visible drug paraphernalia among them, at the busy intersection on Tuesday:

“In the morning, they start early in the morning. It’s almost always the same people you see around. It’s always the same ones all the time. They are, like, here every day,” said Edgar Rivera, a construction worker who has recently been working at a nearby site.

“We see them sleeping on the floor. Sometimes the ambulances come around here to help them out. It’s always the same guys,” he continued.

A staff of a private sanitation company, who gave the name Jeff, said that the situation has been like this for years but has gotten worse in the past year.

“Disappointing the way they discard all the syringes. It’s not the safest. In the last year, it’s gotten really bad. I’ve been seeing more syringes, discarded syringes, ever since they started coming in,” he stated.

A City Hall spokesperson declared late Tuesday that the current situation is “entirely unacceptable.”

The statement read: “We will do everything we can to connect these people with drug treatment and help so they can get their lives back on track.”

Police claimed that only one drug complaint has been reported within the past month and that the suspects were already gone by the time cops arrived.

Source: New York Post