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The crack epidemic of the 80s/90s is over but you have to wonder...Are there still spots in the city where crack dealers give fiends their fix? With the massive amount of disheveled, mentally deranged homeless individuals, you have to wonder if they're using drugs. If so where do they use & how do they find their supplier? I've also heard crack is making a comeback. Don't know if that's true. That assertion is from a post op/ed which we know can be very hyperbolic. Any thoughts/observations/stories would be appreciated.
Gimme a break, this is NYC, you can get anything you want, whenever you want.
What's different now is that a lot of the drug dealing has been pushed underground. The dealers have cell phones and deliver to their customers, or their customers know where to find them off the street. I'm sure there's still street slinging going on in some locations, but the NYPD has done a pretty good job staying on top of that.
if the past is an indication, back in the summer of 1988 Restaurant Row (W 46th between 8th and 9th) had a problem with crackheads sitting on the stoops of brownstones and intimidating their residents from going into their homes. The Guardian Angels got involved which led to a lot of drama. Some of the adult theaters across the street (like the former Capri, Venus theaters) were described as crackhouses
"For example in New York, IBMP teams searched the Hudson River and found the by-products of a projected cocaine consumption totaling 16.4 tons per year. There are approximately 3.4 million people aged 15 to 65 living in the Hudson's watershed. According to the United Nations "World Drug Report," 2.8 percent of Americans in this age group use cocaine at least once a year. That would mean that about 95,000 people are responsible for an annual consumption of 16.4 tons of pure cocaine -- a per capita rate of 172 grams per year."
Cocaine and crack when consumed form the same metabolite/bi-product, benzolecgonine, which is excreted and detected in your urine.
Crack? Probably not but Heroin and Cocaine use and thus their dealers continues as strong as ever.
Only very low level petty dealers do things on streets. Much like prostitution much of the market has moved onto cellphones, Internet, indoor etc... That is how that actor in Tribeca got the stuff which eventually killed him. It also was how LE was able to track down who supplied him with the drugs.
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