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Safe injection site brings daytime public sex to East Harlem: 'Getting my own porno show'

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https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/safe-injection-site-brings-daytime-
public-sex-to-east-harlem-getting-my-own-porno-show/

They’re shooting up, and getting down.

New York City’s controversial, taxpayer-funded “safe” injection site has 
reached a depraved new low — with addicts so zonked out they routinely 
have sex in broad daylight, often at the doorstep of neighbors forced to 
endure the X-rated free-for-all.

The Post witnessed the madness firsthand near OnPoint’s East Harlem 
headquarters on a recent Wednesday afternoon, as a horndog pair were 
conjoined for fifteen long minutes — and kept going even as pedestrians 
awkwardly walked past.

“The guy was just doing his thing, just looking around, wasn’t afraid of 
anything. I couldn’t believe it. I just could not believe it,” said one 
revolted eyewitness, who asked not to be identified.

“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 ‘Hey, hey! That’s it?’ and 
he said, ‘Come on!’ and then she pulled up her pants and ran behind him.”

“It’s disgusting,” added neighbor Shkigale Baker, who lives across the 
street from where the raunchy scene took place.

The government-backed shooting gallery down the block — where addicts are 
given clean needles and other paraphernalia to snort, smoke or inject 
their drug of choice on site — opened in 2021, along with a second 
location in Washington Heights.

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Neighbors say the drug use spills outside the walls of the East 126th 
center and onto the street. J.C. Rice

Since then, nonprofit OnPoint has hauled in a total of $16.4 million in 
taxpayer funds from the city’s Department of Health, with more than half 
coming from the Big Apple’s share of the opioid settlement funds from the 
Sackler family, who developed OxyContin — the drug responsible for causing 
the opioid crisis.

The nonprofit’s annual budget has blown up from $2.6 million in 2021 to 
$17.4 million in 2024, according to tax filings.

But neighbors have gotten nothing but grief since the site opened – and 
told The Post things are only getting worse.

“They have sex in our yards, they defecate behind our cars. It’s a mess,” 
said Barker, 69, putting the blame squarely on OnPoint for poisoning the 
block.

Baker had a front row seat to a similar incident in June, on the sidewalk 
right in front her house.

“There was a woman here, she laid her blanket out. I was sitting here 
thinking ‘What is she doing?’ Then she took off her pants, a guy came, and 
I’m sitting here thinking ‘What? I’m getting my own porno show – are you 
kidding me?'”

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Pedestrians walked past as the NSFW act took place.
J.C. Rice

“They just don’t care,” slammed sister Hallia Baker, who also lives in the 
house. “It’s just been awful.”

“Wow, just in the open? that’s a level of freedom – it’s terrible don’t 
get me wrong, but I’m just thinking….my goodness,” exclaimed another woman 
who lives on the block, in shock.

The things I’ve seen just blows my mind,” chimed in Michael Carden, a pipe 
fitter who works in the neighborhood. “I mean, the hookers do anything for 
stuff.”

The city said 6,000 junkies consumed illegal drugs as many as 38,000 times 
at OnPoint’s two sanctioned sites over the past year, and the nonprofit 
brags about having prevented 1,800 overdoses since its centers opened.

But critics argue those overdoses just happen outside their walls and on 
the streets instead.

“They’re just delaying overdose deaths because they don’t address the 
underlying pathological behavior, which is really injecting yourself with 
poison,” said Charles Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Experts say the center is a beacon for drug use – and associated 
behaviors, such as public sex – to the neighborhoods.

“This is shocking behavior for people to have in their neighborhood. It’s 
not shocking to law enforcement because this is the kind of behavior that 
we see in drug addled people,” said National Police Association’s Betsy 
Brantner Smith.

“With these injection centers, people go, they get high, and then they 
give in to their urges. They’re going to engage in whatever behavior they 
feel because their inhibitions have been taken away and they don’t really 
care about societal norms.”

“For years, I’ve fought to shut down these centers that have brought crime 
and deteriorated residents’ quality of life. Some are dangerously close to 
schools — including one directly across the street from a daycare,” Rep. 
Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.

“I’m hoping Attorney General Pam Bondi will take action to shutter these 
heroin shooting galleries once and for all.”

Fed up residents earlier this year begged the Trump administration to 
close down OnPoint’s supervised shooting sites, arguing they were in clear 
violation of federal law.

They’ve been operating in a legal gray area – permitted under city rules 
but not under state and federal laws.

President Trump issued an executive order last month, placing the sites 
under investigation by Department of Justice, with civil or criminal 
action expected imminently, insiders have told The Post.

“Americans deserve to feel safe in their cities and towns. President Trump 
is providing decisive leadership to protect public safety and end the 
surrender of our great cities to disorder, homelessness, and crime,” said 
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields.

The NYPD says it has received eight calls about prostitution and lewd 
behavior in the area so far in 2025, and has deployed a dedicated officer 
nearby, at East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.

“Our work is not done and we will continue to work with all of our 
partners, including the local community, to create and maintain a proper 
quality of life,” a spokesperson told The Post.

Mayor Eric Adams, who in 2023 announced three additional safe injection 
sites – approved under former Mayor Bill de Blasio – would open by 2025, 
has quietly scrapped the plan, citing legal backlash.

“Let’s not mince words – this behavior is unacceptable, full stop,” a 
spokesperson for Adams told The Post.

City Hall says it has surged resources to the area to increase sanitation 
sweeps, bring people to shelters, crack down on illegal vending and begin 
addressing long-standing scaffolding issues that act as a magnet for crime 
and lewd behavior.

“There is still more to be done, and we remain committed to making sure 
this neighborhood is safe — and feels safe — for all who call it home. Any 
New Yorkers who witness this behavior should report it immediately.”

OnPoint has not replied to The Post’s request for comment.


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