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A stretch of Midtown Manhattan has become a “strip of despair,” where smacked-out addicts shoot up, light up and conk out at the feet of commuters and tourists, locals say.
“I see a lot of things around here,” one shop owner told The Post of the so-called Eighth Avenue corridor near Penn Station, where there is a cluster of addiction clinics and homeless shelters. “Fights, drugs — oh my God — bad things.
“I don’t know if they have knives or guns,” she said, explaining how people who appear to be both extremely high and severely disturbed regularly barge into her shop near the Port Authority Bus Terminal demanding money and harassing tourists.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/17/us-news/midtown-manhattans-shelter-lined-8th-ave-corridor-plagued-by-open-drug-use-strip-of-despair/
