January 01, 2006
Brooklyn's Greenpoint Hotel, great for crackheads
If you do a Google search for the Greenpoint Hotel in Brooklyn, the first result you get is from About.com: Greenpoint Hotel
1109 Manhattan Ave
(718)349-8067
Prices start at $150. Efficient but brusque staff. Only ten minutes to Manhattan by the G train or by car. In Greenpoint. Scroll down Google just a bit and you get a more vivid account filed by the Department of Justice a few weeks ago:The United States seeks to forfeit the hotel after an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration revealed that the hotel has been used extensively to facilitate trafficking in heroin and crack cocaine.
According to the complaint, for several years a drug organization led by Rafael Perez, also known as "Macho," has openly distributed heroin and crack cocaine from rooms in the Greenpoint Hotel. The complaint alleges that many hotel residents participated in the drug business, by either purchasing heroin and crack cocaine in the hotel or by dealing for the Macho organization in the hotel, and at times hotel employees facilitated drug sales in the hotel. During the course of their investigation, DEA agents determined that at least 20 individuals have died in the hotel of probable drug overdoses, and there has been at least one drug-related homicide in the hotel. The New York Times paid a visit to the single-room-occupancy hotel, where a room rents for $450 a month, room numbers are provided in spray paint and "typewritten signs ask residents to refrain from throwing bottles of urine out the windows."
Related: >Forgotten NY's Greenpoint page, including the Greenpoint Hotel with four mattresses piled up in the front window.
January 1, 2006 12:04 PM in Cheap Stuff, Hotelology, Out of Manhattan
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