Drug Dealers Taking Over New S. Slope Condo?
A reader writes in…I live across the street from 373 15th Street. It’s a newer construction building that has been finished for what seems like 2 years or longer. For some reason, the developer never got the certificate of occupancy and nobody has ever moved in. I’m wondering if you, or anyone in our community,…
A reader writes in…I live across the street from 373 15th Street. It’s a newer construction building that has been finished for what seems like 2 years or longer. For some reason, the developer never got the certificate of occupancy and nobody has ever moved in. I’m wondering if you, or anyone in our community, has any information about the violations against the building – and whether those violations will be removed and units will sell. There is a lot of discussion in the neighborhood about this building as it now houses a number of loiterers and drug dealers. There was an impressive undercover drug bust there yesterday.
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Anyone who thinks wealthy whites don’t do drugs is so naive. People have no idea how much drug-taking goes on among whites. Drug users in that demographic form circles of friends totally separate from their usual, old friends, and they get very very good at living a lie and having a double-life. Do you have any friends who became oddly flakey at some point, started hanging out with a whole new crowd, and you stopped seeing them as often? That’s drugs, I promise you. I’ve known high-level young execs and corporate attorneys who were functioning heroin and meth and painkiller users. (Which I only find out later, after observing they became very flakey and absent from their usual social circles.) The fastest growing demographic of meth users are young, white women executives. Drug users aren’t always laying in the street drooling.
a similar situation occurs in 9th street between court and hamilton avenue. There is an relatively new building which has been empty for more than a year. Does anyone know the scoop?
I live a block away; never seen the loiterers IN the building, but I’ve seen them AROUND the building plenty, to the point that I often avoid that block of 15th. So, as a concerned and interested neighbor, I’d hope people will move their chatter about the demographics of drug dealing and the like to a new board, and maybe we can get some contributions from readers who actually know what they’re talking about.
Hey, 11:49 here. I said “me thinks this is BS” because I would find it hard to believe that dealers would be squatting/selling INDOORS in newly constructed condo units, as was implied by the OP.
Outside? of course that’s believable, and i have no doubts there are many users all over the south slope who benefited from that location.
Anonymous at 1:37 pm is a moron.
Yes, I live across the street from the building too. And, like an earlier post suggested, there have been vagabonds and loiterers hanging at the front entrance of the building for some months.
I saw the bust last week. I also assumed that it was drug related since there was an undercover cop in an undercover car who assisted in the arrest after the marked police cars came up the block.
Who is the developer of this building and what are the fines that wont allow occupancy? Anybody know anything?
BS?? I lived a block over a couple of years ago and there was a drug dealer renting from an absentee landlord and dealing out of his apartment. There were also squatters a few houses away (about a year earlier) in a home that was in foreclosure. We got rid of both parties, but don’t be so naive as to think these things don’t exist at any point in time in any neighborhood in our fine city.
Yeah, the VP (for CitiGroup actually, not JPM) told the cops that he couldn’t get good meth in nyc like he did when he lived in seattle so he decided to just simply start cooking his own!
how nice of him to put everyone in his building in danger of a toxic explosion!
Well they did bust a meth factory on the upper east side a month or so ago – run by someone who was a VP at JPM so these things can happen…..