Addicts shoot up, defecate on Bronx street just feet from courthouse: Neighborhood is barbaric

A residential street in The Bronx has become a regular haunt for homeless heroin addicts who shamelessly shoot up and masturbate in broad daylight, just a stone’s throw from the county courthouse and Borough President Vanessa Gibson’s office, fed-up neighbors told The Post.Glass from broken bottles and shattered syringes crunched beneath the dress shoes of attorneys walking along the stonewalled western portion of Franz Sigel Park last week, as they made their way down Walton Avenue toward the Bronx County Courthouse on nearby Grand Concourse.“This neighborhood is barbaric,” said a Walton Avenue resident who asked to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation from drug dealers.

“The stairs to the park are covered in graffiti, sh-t and piss.Everything’s rotting and everyone’s suffering.”Drug baggies, soiled clothing items, fast food containers, discarded mail, human feces and used condoms littered the sidewalk, along with an inflatable Christmas decoration — and nine vials of blood.Someone had dumped the vials and dozens of used needles in a tree bed, not far from the remnants of abandoned encampments in the woods.“You call 311 to report what’s happening, and they relay it to the cops, who soon after close the case, citing ‘No evidence,'” added the resident, who’s owned his apartment since 2012.

“You’ve got kids walking on these sidewalks and dogs.”Over the summer, a junkie was filmed masturbating while standing outside a woman’s parked car.“She was basically trapped in there, horrified, and just waited for him to leave.”“I’ve seen people screwing in the park in the woods, on benches touching themselves,” said a different neighbor last week.

“These derelicts will be out here, getting high, and these lawyers are parallel parking their cars as they’re shooting up.”The street was quiet prior to the pandemic, and the situation has been ignored and slowly worsened.The Post saw a disheveled man crouched behind a car, about...