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Originally Posted by iluvmycuties
John it's gotten ten times worse in 5 years. Suffolk PD doesn't even bother stopping there now. The problem is that NY Transit officers are giving them a one way ticket out here, Pax Christi is here, soup kitchens galore daily, the drug rehab right here (it's apparently not working) the home for the mentally ill where they're selling their psych meds on the streets, and now the meals on wheels in the parking lot next to the 7-11 where the bike path starts. That's how ghettos form. It's a shame, really. Because Port Jeff Station gets such a bad rap as an entire town, but it's only the area from the tracks to 347 that stinks. Everything else in that town is nice.
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The transients hike up the bike path and some hunker down by the back of the old Lawrence Aviation property. Plenty of 3V people think the path is so 'lovely' and 'wonderful' and think nothing of strolling along. Once it was completed to that sketchy part of PJS, I scratched my head wondering why would they place a pathway from the 'barrio-in-training' to Setauket?
I had a bunch of 'day laborer' types run out in front of my car as I was on Old Town. They looked like they were running from something. A few had backpacks stuffed full on their backs.
Unrelated to that event, on March 22, skeletal human remains were found in the section between Gnarled Hollow and Old Town. Who knows if it was a hapless homeless soul, or someone whose demise was brought about by foul play?
While sitting in my car waiting for the train gate to lift, I have seen drug deals take place right outside Nunez Barber Shop in PJ. Broad daylight and these guys weren't making any effort to conceal their transaction.
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