Exclusive | NYC residents beg Trump admin to close controversial safe injection site: âWe need federal interventionâ
In November 2021, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the nationâs first government-backed âoverdose prevention centersâ opening in East Harlem and Washington Heights, where junkies could snort or inject their drug of choice under medical supervision, in addition to picking up clean paraphernalia to use either in or outside their walls.