Exclusive | NOHO hellscape: Opioid clinic welcomes junkies jabbing their necks and ODing in playgrounds to posh NYC nabe

Scenes from “Night of the Living Dead” are playing out a stone’s throw from the famed Angelika Film Center and A-lister apartments in NoHo, where zombified junkies and drug dealers have overtaken entire blocks.At the heart of the problem is a $30 million taxpayer-funded nonprofit called Greenwich House, neighbors said, which employs a so-called “harm reduction” philosophy.Critics counter that it enables addicts rather than getting them to quit.At its opioid clinic on Mercer Street, some 1,300 addicts are handed drugs like methadone – a narcotic given to help with withdrawal symptoms from stronger opioids like heroin — along with fentanyl test strips, which can detect the deadly chemical in drug supplies, and naloxone kits, which can reverse overdoses.Each morning, addicts line up at 6 am as if queueing up for the latest iPhone drop.The Post witnessed the depravity two days this week, with addicts contorted and splayed out on sidewalks and stoops, while others jabbed needles in their necks, arms and legs in broad daylight — as commuters and schoolkids warily walked by.Other junkies collapsed on park benches, feet away from frolicking children, losing their shoes as they stumbled over.

Another young man shuffled into moving traffic on West Houston, and was later seen kneeling on the pavement as medics tried to treat him.Residents are fed up that their posh neighborhood – where a one-bedroom apartment recently sold for $2.2 million and celebs like Gigi Hadid live – has spiraled into a hellscape.“Walking on Houston between Mercer and Crosby is an absolute disaster,” decried resident Linda Sondik.“I have seen people being taken away in ambulances who clearly overdosed, and on the streets people are openly shooting up.It’s tragic and scary.”Neighbor Lilly Migs said, “The kids will be playing in the playground and there’ll be people screaming and wailing on the other side.” “Parents have called 911 and sometimes paramedics never sho...