This shady, tree-lined block on State Street has suddenly become plagued with drug users and dealers, residents say. Shown here: A LEED-certified building. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle
BOERUM HILL — Residents of State Street between Hoyt and Bond streets in Boerum Hill say their tree-lined block has recently become a hangout for drug users who harass them, defecate and urinate on the sidewalk, and leave their needles and trash everywhere.
About a dozen State Streeters showed up at the 84th Precinct Community Council meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Nov. 22 to plead for more police presence on the block, which is known as the “State Street Cathedral Block” due to the presence of St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral.
“This is as bad as I’ve ever seen it, and I’ve been on the block 37 years,” said Tim Walther. “Almost every night we have guys hanging out on the street using drugs blatantly; we have seen someone in the front yard shooting up. I saw a man, pardon me, taking a dump in front of my house in a tree pit.
“They moved away from the deli on the corner and were hanging out right smack in front of the St. Nick’s,” he added. “People are afraid to walk down the block.”
Other residents spoke about finding drug paraphernalia in their vestibules and being afraid to walk on the street at night.
State Street resident Anita said her neighbor who lives at 368 State was coming home about 8:30 p.m. after visiting a neighborhood ATM when two men pushed their way into his building and began to attack him. “But he has a dog and he was screaming, and somehow he got the two guys to leave. It was really traumatic for him,” she said.
Anita said she also had to call 911 about two weeks ago to revive a man…
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