CITY COLLEGE–“Usually when I come home from work, I see a bunch of them hiding underneath a tree, just kind of rummaging about each other,” said Edwin Jimenez, a Jackson Heights resident. “And then sometimes I get a glimpse of what they’re doing. And it usually involves needles and just passing it around.”
Jimenez and his neighbors worry about the drug addicts that congregate near his building at 95th Street and 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights. Overall crime has gone down in the neighborhood of the 115th Precinct during the past year by 2.33% according to the NYPD. But residents in Jimenez’s building say they still feel “uncomfortable” walking around at morning and night.
“They’re there around 9 or 10 a.m. and then again around midnight,” said Jimenez. “One of their favorite hiding spots is the bottom of the stairwell next to my apartment. They come in, go down to the corner, and just do whatever they want like doing their dirty drugs. Sometimes they piss and shit there, so I just get a giant whiff of it.”
