I just cannot get over how, after the Heroin overdose death of one famous White actor, there is now wall to wall coverage of a Heroin epidemic in America. This is such a clear statement on the celebrity driven news coverage in the US and how value is put on the rich and famous and their lives versus the people who are deemed to be of no value [in this case many ODs and deaths] and not worthy of media attention.
February 4, 2014 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...
That's what life was when I grew up there. So............................. You think it's different!
The NY Post makes it sound like the East Village is just full of junkies buying heroin in dark scary tenements, and yet they are simultaneously running another story about Philip Seymour Hoffman just buying $1200 worth of heroin in the West Village outside of D'Agostinos. Blame it on the East Village, NYP, but like every other product legal or not, the drugs follow the money. Hoffman didn't need to go schlepping very far to get what he wanted, it was readily available right in his own neighborhood.
February 4, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Now comes the "crackdown" on folks just getting on with their lives. Makes as much sense as the "crackdown" on drivers going 35mph following some kid getting hit running in front of a car chasing his ball. No sense at at all, that is.
Since drug overdoses and car accidents are the two leading causes of accidental deaths the US, actually we need a crackdown on both. Each results in about 36,000 deaths annually, which is roughly double the number of murders. John Penley is correct, it shouldn't take a celebrity to die before we do something about a problem that kills more people every single month than died on 9/11.
February 4, 2014 at 10:07 PM
Anonymous said...
Get ready for wall to wall coverage about this for the next 5 days or so. The media *loves* to milk these stories to the very last drop.
This is one example of why I don't pay attention to the news anymore, most of it is completely irrelevant. Hoffman was a famous guy, some including me thought he was good at what he did but here's the news story: he died of a drug overdose…that's all we need to know! Everything after that is the business of his family and friends.
This had to be more of a choice than necessity. A guy with his money and connections could easily have found a more reliable and cleaner source. How did Burroughs manage it all those years?
February 5, 2014 at 8:20 AM
Anonymous said...
Inquiring minds wanna know the address of the building in the EV where PSM was buying his smack.
February 5, 2014 at 9:24 AM
Anonymous said...
PSH's death is sad and tragic, however, why does it take for a beloved celebrity's death for the authorities to start shaking down the drug dealers? If it'd would have been a regular joe or jane schmoe that died from a heroin overdose, they'll just chalk that one up in their damned statistics and the authorities continue to turn a blind eye and deaf ears.
February 5, 2014 at 10:03 AM
nygrump said...
70 bags sounds like a pretty damned good source to me, if he hadn't od'ed there wouldn't be any problem. Another victim of the drug war, if he'd known the purity of the drugs this probably wouldn't have happened. I'm well over feeling any pity for junkies. They know exactly what they are doing.
February 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM
Anonymous said...
302 Mott
February 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...
hey Hipster, the value of your east village condo just dropped 2%. If we can drum up more stores about the return of the bad old days, maybe we can reverse the high-end influx.
The building where they just arrested four people for heroin sale and possession is 302 Mott Street, between Bleecker and Houston, right across from SoHo Billiards, which is on the North side of Houston, so its NoHo, but that's another story.
This address is not exactly the East Village, its somewhere between NoHo, LoBro and BroHo, or as most real estate professionals now call it, Manhattan South.
An earlier news report placed the building in Chinatown, which it is if you ignore NoLiTa and Little italy. They probaly saw Mott Street and just assumed thats where it was, but for some reason news reporters seem to have no idea what neighborhood they are reporting on these days, perhaps because most of them live in the suburbs or come from Ohio.
February 5, 2014 at 10:54 AM
Joe said...
Man, the NYPost really knows how to write with zero class.
February 5, 2014 at 11:58 AM
Anonymous said...
Anonymous 10:54am - Sure, that worked so well the first time.
February 5, 2014 at 2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
They pulled an article that may have them involved in a lawsuit. Shame on you NYPost using national enquirer as a source.
All these interviews with people who attended NA or AA meetings where Hoffman showed up are distasteful in the extreme. I thought the concept there was anonymous, and what is said in the room stays in the room.
A couple of friends who are in AA are telling me that people who knew Hoffman and attended the same Perry Street AA meetings that he did are coming over to the East side for their meetings now. They are so sick of all the drama and hand-wringing going on about PSH in the West Village that it's actually interfering with their sobriety.
As one of them put it, he was just a junkie who stuck a needle in his arm, nothing more, and nothing less. And because he knew the program he should have known how to get help before it was too late.
What these AAers are really shaking their heads about is all the excuses people are making for him, that just because he was famous everyone is treating him differently than they would another addict who didn't have an Oscar.
Even the police who are chasing a phantom drug dealer who sold him the fatal dose have fallen into the celebrity trap. They even arrested that young girl Juliana Luchkiw who just happens to live next door to the heroin dealer who hadn't sold Hoffman drugs recently. The pictures of her shock and panic in court at being dragged into this mess are sad. They didn't even give her bail for 2 days even though her charge is just a misdemeanor, and so she had to spend two days locked up on Rikers Island. Talk about rounding up the usual suspects. Orange really is the new black.
Only Philip Seymour Hoffman is responsible for this tragedy. He was a great actor, he was one of my all-time favorites, and I will miss him more than I could have imagined before his sudden death, but in the end there was nothing romantic or cinematic about the way his life ended, because in the end he was just another junkie who stuck a needle in his own arm.
February 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous said...
That neighborhood is called OHNO
February 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM
Anonymous said...
I know the shame in your defeat.
February 9, 2014 at 3:03 PM
[Image]The Post is touting this "exclusive" …
Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman scored his smack like a common junkie, schlepping to an East Village apartment to feed his heroin fix, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
A witness has come forward to tell cops that several months ago, he personally eyeballed Hoffman buying the drugs himself, making the transaction at the same apartment where the witness was being supplied.
Based on this tip, the NYPD set up surveillance on the apartment on the unnamed street/Avenue Monday night. Police arrested one man emerging from the apartment, but, as the Post notes, he was not carrying the drugs branded "Ace of Spades," the logo that appeared on the heroin reportedly found in Hoffman's West Village apartment.
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Close this window Jump to comment formI just cannot get over how, after the Heroin overdose death of one famous White actor, there is now wall to wall coverage of a Heroin epidemic in America. This is such a clear statement on the celebrity driven news coverage in the US and how value is put on the rich and famous and their lives versus the people who are deemed to be of no value [in this case many ODs and deaths] and not worthy of media attention.
February 4, 2014 at 7:29 PM
That's what life was when I grew up there. So.............................
You think it's different!
February 4, 2014 at 7:35 PM
The NY Post makes it sound like the East Village is just full of junkies buying heroin in dark scary tenements, and yet they are simultaneously running another story about Philip Seymour Hoffman just buying $1200 worth of heroin in the West Village outside of D'Agostinos. Blame it on the East Village, NYP, but like every other product legal or not, the drugs follow the money. Hoffman didn't need to go schlepping very far to get what he wanted, it was readily available right in his own neighborhood.
February 4, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Now comes the "crackdown" on folks just getting on with their lives. Makes as much sense as the "crackdown" on drivers going 35mph following some kid getting hit running in front of a car chasing his ball. No sense at at all, that is.
February 4, 2014 at 9:12 PM
Since drug overdoses and car accidents are the two leading causes of accidental deaths the US, actually we need a crackdown on both. Each results in about 36,000 deaths annually, which is roughly double the number of murders. John Penley is correct, it shouldn't take a celebrity to die before we do something about a problem that kills more people every single month than died on 9/11.
February 4, 2014 at 10:07 PM
Get ready for wall to wall coverage about this for the next 5 days or so. The media *loves* to milk these stories to the very last drop.
This is one example of why I don't pay attention to the news anymore, most of it is completely irrelevant. Hoffman was a famous guy, some including me thought he was good at what he did but here's the news story: he died of a drug overdose…that's all we need to know! Everything after that is the business of his family and friends.
Next!
February 5, 2014 at 12:05 AM
Sorry but, what a snitch that guy is!!
February 5, 2014 at 12:54 AM
This had to be more of a choice than necessity. A guy with his money and connections could easily have found a more reliable and cleaner source. How did Burroughs manage it all those years?
February 5, 2014 at 8:20 AM
Inquiring minds wanna know the address of the building in the EV where PSM was buying his smack.
February 5, 2014 at 9:24 AM
PSH's death is sad and tragic, however, why does it take for a beloved celebrity's death for the authorities to start shaking down the drug dealers? If it'd would have been a regular joe or jane schmoe that died from a heroin overdose, they'll just chalk that one up in their damned statistics and the authorities continue to turn a blind eye and deaf ears.
February 5, 2014 at 10:03 AM
70 bags sounds like a pretty damned good source to me, if he hadn't od'ed there wouldn't be any problem. Another victim of the drug war, if he'd known the purity of the drugs this probably wouldn't have happened. I'm well over feeling any pity for junkies. They know exactly what they are doing.
February 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM
302 Mott
February 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM
hey Hipster, the value of your east village condo just dropped 2%. If we can drum up more stores about the return of the bad old days, maybe we can reverse the high-end influx.
February 5, 2014 at 10:54 AM
The building where they just arrested four people for heroin sale and possession is 302 Mott Street, between Bleecker and Houston, right across from SoHo Billiards, which is on the North side of Houston, so its NoHo, but that's another story.
This address is not exactly the East Village, its somewhere between NoHo, LoBro and BroHo, or as most real estate professionals now call it, Manhattan South.
An earlier news report placed the building in Chinatown, which it is if you ignore NoLiTa and Little italy. They probaly saw Mott Street and just assumed thats where it was, but for some reason news reporters seem to have no idea what neighborhood they are reporting on these days, perhaps because most of them live in the suburbs or come from Ohio.
February 5, 2014 at 10:54 AM
Man, the NYPost really knows how to write with zero class.
February 5, 2014 at 11:58 AM
Anonymous 10:54am - Sure, that worked so well the first time.
February 5, 2014 at 2:18 PM
They pulled an article that may have them involved in a lawsuit. Shame on you NYPost using national enquirer as a source.
February 5, 2014 at 6:48 PM
All these interviews with people who attended NA or AA meetings where Hoffman showed up are distasteful in the extreme. I thought the concept there was anonymous, and what is said in the room stays in the room.
February 5, 2014 at 8:39 PM
Don't worry, no one takes the Post seriously
February 6, 2014 at 4:18 PM
I call him a junkie!
February 7, 2014 at 1:43 PM
RIP all of you on heroin
February 7, 2014 at 11:16 PM
A couple of friends who are in AA are telling me that people who knew Hoffman and attended the same Perry Street AA meetings that he did are coming over to the East side for their meetings now. They are so sick of all the drama and hand-wringing going on about PSH in the West Village that it's actually interfering with their sobriety.
As one of them put it, he was just a junkie who stuck a needle in his arm, nothing more, and nothing less. And because he knew the program he should have known how to get help before it was too late.
What these AAers are really shaking their heads about is all the excuses people are making for him, that just because he was famous everyone is treating him differently than they would another addict who didn't have an Oscar.
Even the police who are chasing a phantom drug dealer who sold him the fatal dose have fallen into the celebrity trap. They even arrested that young girl Juliana Luchkiw who just happens to live next door to the heroin dealer who hadn't sold Hoffman drugs recently. The pictures of her shock and panic in court at being dragged into this mess are sad. They didn't even give her bail for 2 days even though her charge is just a misdemeanor, and so she had to spend two days locked up on Rikers Island. Talk about rounding up the usual suspects. Orange really is the new black.
Only Philip Seymour Hoffman is responsible for this tragedy. He was a great actor, he was one of my all-time favorites, and I will miss him more than I could have imagined before his sudden death, but in the end there was nothing romantic or cinematic about the way his life ended, because in the end he was just another junkie who stuck a needle in his own arm.
February 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM
That neighborhood is called OHNO
February 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM
I know the shame in your defeat.
February 9, 2014 at 3:03 PM