{"id":147950,"date":"2025-08-15T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147950\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:52:17","slug":"nyc-residents-slam-taxpayer-funded-safe-injection-site-over-public-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147950\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC residents slam taxpayer-funded safe injection site over public sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> residents are speaking out after users at a taxpayer-funded &#8220;safe injection site&#8221; operated by OnPoint have left their neighborhood rife with social dysfunction \u2013 including public intercourse and defecation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Users at OnPoint\u2019s East Harlem headquarters have been engaging in lewd antisocial behavior that has left local residents furious, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/09\/us-news\/safe-injection-site-brings-daytime-public-sex-to-east-harlem-getting-my-own-porno-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the New York Post reported.<\/a> One disgusted resident told the outlet he witnessed public sex in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy was just doing his thing, just looking around, wasn\u2019t afraid of anything. I couldn\u2019t believe it. I just could not believe it, the guy finished, and he just starts zipping his pants and walking away. And the woman was still bent over wondering what was going on. And then after he got maybe three yards away, she said \u2018Hey, hey! That\u2019s it?\u2019 and he said, \u2018Come on!\u2019 and then she pulled up her pants and ran behind him,&#8221; the resident said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755265936_637_new-york-city-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"New York City skyline at sunset\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>New York City residents are furious that a local safe injection site has flooded their neighborhood with dysfunction.\u00a0 (Gary Hershorn\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/watch-dc-homeless-weigh-trump-cleaning-up-city-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH: DC HOMELESS WEIGH IN ON TRUMP CLEANING UP CITY STREETS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The East Harlem site, which opened in 2021, provides addicts with clean drug paraphernalia such as needles and pipes, which they can use to imbibe their drug of choice within the confines of the site&#8217;s walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of this so-called &#8220;harm reduction&#8221; strategy for drug use claim that it saves chronic users from overdoses by providing them a safe setting to use, while critics say the sites enable addicts instead of treating their underlying problems, and merely delay the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>OnPoint boasts that it has prevented 1,800 overdoses since its centers in East Harlem and Washington Heights opened, and the centers\u2019 budget has ballooned to $17.4 million a year. According to city officials, nearly 6,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/mental-health\/drug-and-substance-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addicts used illegal drugs<\/a> at the centers 38,000 times in the last year alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sites exist in a legal gray area, where they\u2019re permitted by city rules but illegal under state and federal law. The Trump administration is investigating the sites and is planning to take civil or criminal action, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have sex in our yards, they defecate behind our cars. It\u2019s a mess,&#8221; local resident Shkigale Baker, 69, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/needle.jpg\" alt=\"12 August 2025, Berlin: A syringe for drug use lies on the ground on a grass verge in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Photo: Fabian Sommer\/dpa (Photo by Fabian Sommer\/picture alliance via Getty Images)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The safe injection sites provide addicts with clean needles to use.\u00a0 (Getty)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-york-city-opens-first-government-funded-transgender-homeless-shelter-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEW YORK CITY OPENS FIRST GOVERNMENT-FUNDED TRANSGENDER HOMELESS SHELTER IN THE NATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One resident, Barker, claimed he was treated to his own &#8220;porno show&#8221; in June when a woman engaged in carnal affairs right in front of her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a woman here, she laid her blanket out. I was sitting here thinking \u2018What is she doing?\u2019 Then she took off her pants, a guy came, and I\u2019m sitting here thinking \u2018What? I\u2019m getting my own porno show \u2013 are you kidding me?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just don\u2019t care, it\u2019s just been awful,&#8221; her sister and housemate, Hallia Baker, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755265937_54_trump-84u7.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump speaking\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has launched investigations into the sites.\u00a0 (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OnPoint NYC did not respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News Digital\u2019s<\/a> request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Spector is a reporter for Fox News Digital. 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