Open Air Drug Markets Spread to NYC’s Broadway

It truly is the Great White Way.

Things have gotten so bad in New York City that drug dealers are brazenly selling what appears to be cocaine — sometimes neatly assembled on sidewalk tables — on Broadway in trendy NoMad and farther north in Times Square.

Some of the drug-slingers openly solicit, saying, “Weed, coke. Weed, coke” as pedestrians walk by, a disgusted local restaurateur said.

The Post observed two different buyers approach dealers on the corner of West 27th Street and Broadway earlier this month and hand over cash in exchange for plastic baggies containing a mysterious white substance.

And in Times Square, a Post journalist spotted a makeshift table with what appeared to be pre-rolled joints on West 41st Street — and was told by the dealer that they could get cocaine there too.

In NoMad, one man wearing an Amazon vest did not even bother hopping off his bike before riding off with the goods on Oct. 7. A few minutes later, another man approached the dealers and walked away with a white substance in a baggie.

Some dealers neatly assemble their haul on sidewalk tables.NY Post

“They’re here before we open and when we close,” said Hannah Dolin, an employee at Aubi and Ramsa, which sells alcohol-infused ice cream and is near where the dealers set up shop.

The transactions took place less than 24 hours after three police cars sat near the location the night before.

As of Thursday, the 13th Precinct this year had received 41 narcotics-related 911 calls and another 311 drug-related complaint covering two square blocks flanking Broadway, from West. 27th Street north to West 28th Street and from 5th Avenue west to Sixth Avenue, police said.

The stretch of Broadway has long attracted drug dealers, observers say, but they’ve become especially bold in the last year, laying their goods out on coffee and folding tables as if they’re selling fake Rolex watches or Coach bags.

One cluster of dealers on the northwest corner of West 27th Street and Broadway relax in chairs in front of one of the empty storefronts, directly across from a matcha tea shop and a popular Sweetgreen eatery.

Some of the drug-slingers openly solicit, offering “weed, coke” to pedestrians as they walk by. NY Post

The Post on Tuesday observed three people sitting outside the storefront and going into a backpack — which said “I Can Do Anything” — to get their merchandise. A small folding table displayed bags of what looked like weed and pre-rolled joints.

The stretch of Broadway has long attracted drug dealers, observers say, but they’ve become especially bold in the last year.NY Post

A police car pulled up in the late afternoon and the crew scattered, grabbing the merchandise off the table.

“It’s like so brazen, I couldn’t believe it,” said one NoMad resident.

The resident said he felt like he was watching an episode of “The Wire” — the