The “Broadway of the Bronx” is a drug-ridden wasteland, where hordes of zonked-out junkies openly buy dope, shoot up and overdose in broad daylight — despite city officials’ years-old pledge to end the ceaseless squalor.
The Post spent several days in “The Hub” — the commercial area between Melrose and Mott Haven that encompasses Roberto Clemente Plaza — and found scenes of drug-fueled depravity and an ever-present unwelcome haze of crack smoke.
Two addicts were seen suffering apparent overdoses and dozens more nodded off or involuntarily contorted their bodies into the telltale “fentanyl fold.”
One potential overdose victim lay face down on the sidewalk for 10 minutes until a fellow addict gave him doses of life-saving Narcan. A few feet away, a haggard man nonchalantly injected a syringe into a woman’s neck.