An Upper Manhattan subway station is a needle graveyard, with the tracks littered with hundreds of used syringes tossed by junkies after they shoot up on the platforms, straphangers say.
“My husband doesn’t let me go out by myself [to the station] at night, he’s horrified,” said chef Laura Licona, 49, of the cavernous 1 Line transit hub at West 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.The Post recently witnessed a half-dozen junkies injecting themselves there, just a few yards away from parents and elementary school children.
Some straphangers worry about their safety due to the explosion of drug activity in the subway station.Hundreds of needles can be seen across the train tracks.“If kids are seeing that, I imagine it has some sort of effect on their mental health,” said Andres Ochoa of the situation at the station.“I’ve been raising hell because it’s out of control to have these guys sitting on the bench, doing everything — shooting up, smoking crack,” the cleaner said.
“They’re just enforcing the fares,” said Doshari Abre, 29, whose family owns a candy shop at the station.
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