On a recent morning walk the woods, numerous people shot up near people walking their dogs and pushing strollers. Discarded syringes littered the trails.
The North Woods, 40 acres of dense woods containing waterfalls, boulders to climb and shade on a hot summer day, are Central Park’s largest forest. But local residents say rampant drug use over the last year has made the woods too dangerous.
In just an hour of collecting drug litter with a trash picker, Buckley filled about a quarter of a 3-gallon bucket with caps, syringes and other drug refuse. Xavier Santiago, the chair of Community Board 11, which covers East Harlem and Randall's Island, said drug use is the top complaint his office has received over the last year.
"I can’t take it anymore," she added. "I see people every day with needles in their neck and people selling drugs openly on street corners.” “Where people end up using drugs, it's shaped by prohibition and it's shaped by poverty,” said Bluthenthal. “Overdose prevention sites or drug consumption sites are giving people the resources they need to be safer and to keep the community safer. So if you had more of them, you would have less of this litter.”
Days after Gothamist contacted the parks department and Central Park Conservancy, Buckley reported that much of the drug litter had been picked up. But he added that plenty of vials and caps were still being left on the ground.
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