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New York City’s war on drugs is over. The junkies won. The New York Police Department waved the white flag last week — upon orders to surrender from Albany — directing officers to let drug addicts freely shoot up on city streets, and even let them share needles.

The park saw two people stabbed, one man mugged and an elderly cook shoved against a plate glass window in the early hours of Saturday alone, amid spiraling crime.

Party promoter David Ortiz dismissed criticism from residents complaining about a recent string of pop-up parties in the New York City park.

The de Blasio administration has done very little to speed the pedestrianization of Broadway that started under his predecessor, but nonetheless was very quick to put its own spin on a bold vision put forth for the street by a well-funded business group last week. The Union Square Partnership had unveiled a $100-million plan to remove cars from the Union Square-14th Street area and create almost 100,000 more square feet of public space. The plan did not come out of the city’s Department of Transportation. Nonetheless, the DOT’s Manhattan borough commissioner, Ed Pincar, heralded it in a ...