A New York Metropolis subway underpass has change into an open-air drug market, making it unsafe and sometimes unusable for residents, in accordance with the district’s metropolis council member.
“The illicit drug selling and use, as well as other quality of life issues, has made the underpass unwelcoming and in some days unwalkable,” Metropolis Council Member Oswald Feliz, a Democrat, wrote in a Nov. 25 letter despatched to the town’s Division of Transportation and obtained by the New York Submit.
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The Kingsbridge D-train station underpass — a pathway under the tracks that connects the 2 sides — has change into a hotspot for the New York’s growing drug epidemic. Illicit dealing and abuse is more and more seen throughout the Bronx-based subway station together with needles and trash overlaying the walkway, main residents and native dad and mom to really feel unsafe, the New York Post reported.
“It’s not safe,” Draya Michelle, the mom of a 2-year-old woman, instructed the Submit. “I take the Metro North just to avoid coming up this way, and I wouldn’t recommend anyone going down into that underpass because you don’t know what’s going to happen to you.”
“And no one’s coming to save you,” Michelle continued. The cops “just stand there and watch.”
Brian Calle, a neighborhood resident and father, instructed the Submit that it is scary to stroll across the space.
“We can’t really walk through there because a lot of people are sleeping there and doing drugs,” he stated. “I don’t want my kids to grow up in a neighborhood like this.”
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New York Metropolis reached a 20-year record-high of three,026 deadly drug overdoses in 2022, greater than doubling 2019’s whole, in accordance with the New York City health department. The Bronx’s residents had the very best price of overdose deaths citywide.
Feliz blamed DOT for not taking motion on the Kingsbridge station to discourage illicit drug activities.
“Your agency has received many ideas of simple steps that can be taken within your power, but your agency refused to do anything,” Feliz wrote in his letter.
A New York subway station’s underpass has change into a hotspot for public drug consumption. The illicit drug actions have prompted residents to really feel unsafe. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Photographs)
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A DOT spokesperson instructed Fox Information the division is working to resolve the problem.
“These complex challenges require a multi-agency approach and the Adams administration is marshaling its resources to deliver safe streets and welcoming public spaces in the Bronx,” the spokesperson stated in a press release.
