Scenes from “Night of the Living Dead” are playing out a stone’s throw from the famed Angelika Film Center and A-lister apartments in NoHo, where zombified junkies and drug dealers have overtaken entire blocks.
At the heart of the problem is a $30 million taxpayer-funded nonprofit called Greenwich House, neighbors said, which employs a so-called “harm reduction” philosophy. Critics counter that it enables addicts rather than getting them to quit.
At its opioid clinic on Mercer Street, some 1,300 addicts are handed drugs like methadone – a narcotic given to help with withdrawal symptoms from stronger opioids like heroin — along with fentanyl test strips, which can detect the deadly chemical in drug supplies, and naloxone kits, which can reverse overdoses…