West Chelsea Underbelly Moves to Meatpacking District

The Daily News suggests that when it comes to drugs, drunks, and overall debauchery, it's all happening in the Meatpacking District. With the NYPD's crackdown of West Chelsea ever since notable, violent crimes, apparently the action has moved south. From the News: "One reporter was solicited by three dealers within two hours on a Saturday night. Reporters watched a pair of twentysomething club girls vomit in tandem; a man urinate as he weaved along Washington St.; another man so blitzed he appeared paralyzed on W. 13th St." One resident complained, "It's gotten cool, and not in a good way." (Of course, the decline of MePa has been going on for years now.) Still, it doesn't mean Club Land is totally rehabilitated.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 31, 2008 1:25 PM

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Mymymichl

MEPA was always lowlife, but now the newest wave of them pay loads of bucks to eat in overpriced eateries, bars, and high rent everything else. Our mayor is delighted the businesses pay taxes, and landlords can't believe their good luck. Why should anyone try to put a stop to this ? These punks exist in al eras, always from the outer boroughs which include New Jersey. They still lack class, their putrid vomit still stinks. their Harleys are noisy pigs. After living in this far West Village for forty years, the only difference is that homes got more expensive, no one on the streets talks to you any more, and old people were squeezed out by developers and ugly souls who are called landlords. I hear nice things about Portland, Oregon.

Jerky

Maybe they should complain to the Community Boards, or are they too busy settling vendettas with David Bouley to notice????? hahahahaha.

dooWOP

So, how's the hooker action there?

kcin122

wouldnt have went there 30 years ago and wont go there now.

nothing has changed for me.

Billiamsburg

Well isnt most of that because all those Jersey lowlifes come to MePa to party?

blablanyc

And all of those jerks are now coming to the LES.

sinisterteashop

The graft is circulating. Welcome back suckers.

Kojak

I can see it happening. I was in the area for a birthday party not too long ago and there was already vomit in several places, and it wasn't even midnight yet. On two occasions I was offered coke, and there was a large fight outside, all on the same night.