For years, the intersections of Myrtle Avenue and Mallory Avenue in Jersey City functioned as something other than a place where children wait for school buses or old men sit on stoops watching the world go by.
They were a supermarket. Not for milk and bread. For fentanyl.
Federal authorities this week swept up 29 members and associates of a drug trafficking organization that had turned those blocks into an open-air bazaar for death, hauling in 15 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, three more of cocaine, 19 firearms, high-capacity magazines, a bulletproof vest, and more than $160,000 in cash…