Results tagged “gutterpunks”

Hey, the gutter punks are back in the News today. Still panhandling, still smelling, still shooting up... but this time the focus is on how their habits are driving business away from shopkeepers in the Williamsburg area. One deli owner on Bedford Avenue says not only are they shoplifting, but "people see them and get disgusted, and then people don't bother coming into my store. They could take a nice hot bath. One kid comes in and the whole store will be smelling for hours." Pretty sure the jacuzzi baths at the stalled luxury condos they squat in haven't been installed yet.

While Williamsburg sits stagnant in a confused state of purgatory, the abandoned and stalled luxury condos have become a haven for one group: the gutter punks. The Daily News gives the group a two-story treatment today, saying the "heroin-addict hobos from around the country are overrunning" the area. And as with every other newcomer to the Brooklyn neighborhood, they're hated by those who came before them.