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Today when I was walking up Eight Avenue somewhere between 37th & 42nd, a disheveled, stocky black guy with blood shot eyes, battered jeans and a black tee-shirt, approached me in a discreet/clandestine manner. He immediately asked me if I was interested in 'scoring' Percocet, MJ, oxycodone, cocaine or adderall. I simply smiled and shook my head hoping that this possible hussler would conceive that I wasn't interested. It worked and after asking where I was from, he told me to have a blessed day. I gawked back to witness him approach three other individuals, I can safely assume that his ideal clientele were wealthy appearing males, based on their similar characteristics. Each, like me, wore sunglasses, exhibited their smart phones and dressed in formal business attire. Although there are a few and far between willing to purchase drugs if approached in public, it seemed as if this guy's only possible hot iron to strike were caucasian males that flashed some sort of visible wealth. Upon nearing the NYT building/Port Authority Bus Terminal, I mistakingly made eye contact w/ another chancy loiterer. As I'm passing and staring, he culled out a wrinkled bag from his baggy jeans and then pointed at me followed by pointing down at his bag. I was pretty surprised that this was my second drug related encounter so I decided not to even look back at his face. It was pretty interesting that I felt slightly intimidated by these likely drug pushers, especially in this area. Now I was born in 1992 so I don't have any memories of the old seedy theater district (#1 phenomenon would be time travel) during that relatively long stretch of history when NY was down and out but I've watched documentaries and seen movies based in that era to know what did exist. Prostitutes, Rampant and nearly open market drug transactions, Adult stores etc. Please answer these questions with the best input you can give...Is there an increase in dealing going on in the Garmet/Theater district? May it be a recent trend? What would the police have done if I told them my account? Are more ppl resorting to selling drugs due to the crappy economy and/or are there more drug operations infiltrating NYC? Do you think that NYC is deteriorating due to the economy? Any additional broad feedback would be much appreciated! THX!
There have always been drug dealers on the streets of midtown.I don't get any feeling it's any worse than 10 years ago.
Why would drug dealing on the streets of midtown Manhattan surprise you when there is drug dealing going on in every suburban town across the country ?
The US has a very big drug problem and there is drug dealing going on everywhere every day.
The US has a very big drug problem and there is drug dealing going on everywhere every day.
The war on drugs is a shame. The drugs are allowed to come into this country willfully. The powers that be use drugs (illegal, prescription, alcohol, beer, porn) to tame the cattle.
you obviously either don't spend a lot of time in the city or are a pretty new fish here if someone offering you drugs is out of place and weird to you.
happens literally all the time, always has, always will.
Apparently there is a methadone clinic somewhere around that area too. Not sure if that's true, or if it's just something people in my office joke about (I work around there), but there sure are some derelict looking people that hang around that area.
Of course there are dealers in the streets of Midtown.
Duh.
Forget the dealers walking around....what about the huge weed delivery operation on 46th{ i think } and 8th?
"Premier", another huge one is somewhere on 58 street.
These guys go to almost any apt in Manhattan and some areas of Brooklyn.
Now THAT'S MIDTOWN DRUG DEALIN'! BiG TiMe!
I've been approached to buy drugs by strangers twice in my 34 years: both times were on my first night in Manhattan down in the west village. Mind you, I just left the Electtric Daisy Carnival in Vegas, which is arguably the worlds greatest concentration of people on drugs at the same time. I really wanted to "score" rolls there, yet had a very tough time. I've been to Coachella three times and generally partied big time for years in conservative bastions like Hollywood, San Francisco, Austin and Gainesville, Fla. save for being offered hits on joints/bongs, I've neve been approached by strangers to buy drugs before that first night in the west village a week ago. Not a huge deal, but this thread is yet another reminder how NY folks don't realize how much is unique to NYC.
8th Ave in the 30s and 40s is still sketchy. West of there and it becomes much more pleasant (well, when it's not post-industrial or the Lincoln Tunnel approaches). But the grime that used to infest all of Midtown West has never quite been scrubbed from 8th Ave.
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