A sweeping crackdown will clean up a troubled East Village street that locals recently told The Post had turned into a “s–thole” due to open drug use, mentally disturbed derelicts and t…
had turned into a “s–thole” due to open drug use, mentally disturbed derelicts and troubling bursts of violence.
Years of growing complaints and fears about deteriorating safety along 14th Street hit a crescendo June 23, when police said Alejandro Piedra, 30,Locals complained to The Post afterward about open-air heroin use, sidewalks festooned with human waste, irksome street vendors and threatening vagrants — all problems that were entrenched for months or longer.
Justin Rivera, a clerk at Petopia, worried the problems were too ingrained for the city’s plan to be effective, especially with emotionally disturbed people milling around the area near StuyTown. A clerk at smoke shop on 14th Street and First Avenue took aim at the WhatsApp chat, calling it “stupid.”
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