Kensington, Philadelphia

[Sue (Ayt)]

The Kensington section of the city of Philadelphia is known as “the biggest open air drug market” on the East Coast. Drugs are readily available and used openly in the streets there. The city freely hands out clean needles and Narcan, and hauls off the dead daily. This followed what the city called their “harm reduction program”. Addicts from all over the east coast wind up in that small section of Philadelphia because of the easy availability of low-cost drugs of all kinds. It is only 2.5 miles from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Apparently, fentanyl first appeared in the drugs there, before spreading out to the rest of the country. Xylazine was introduced more recently, also known as Tranq. It is an animal tranquilizer that has also infiltrated the drug supply, again starting in Kensington. Lately, an even stronger drug has appeared in the supply that is rhino tranquilizer, they say. Now, most all of the drug supply that is cheaply available in Kensington has become a gumbo of contaminants with these things and others, so the users really never know what they are getting.

These new synthetic additives apparently are what causes skin to rot away on legs and arms, so Kensington has become famous for “Zombies” who stumble around and live openly in the streets there. Many of them are amputees now, so there are quite a few wheelchairs in use there. The new drugs also cause the Quasimodo-like hunched over position that these people assume. (Their backs even become misshapen I read.) Between their drugged out stupors and their appearance, I have to say that the videos on YouTube appallingly do look like a set for an end of the world zombie movie. These highs are cheap, and “free samples” are regularly given out, so they come from all over for the low cost drugs. And often they never leave Kensington.

Inside America’s Largest Open-Air Drug Market – Kensington (Philadelphia)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWGwCbSUECw

One reason I am so appalled by all this, is that my grandparents lived in Kensington, and my mother grew up there. In the 50’s and 60’s, I used to love visiting and staying with my grandparents. They lived in a row house, and we would sit on the “front stoop” every evening after dinner. The grown-ups would chat, and the kids from the many large families would run the sidewalks and play all the games of the city and alleys, like hopscotch and jumprope and stickball and other city games. It was a whole different world for my sisters and me, being rural country children from outside the city. (That area has now become expensive, crowded suburbs.)

There was a really good ice cream shop on the block, and my grandpa would let us walk there for a cone or even a sundae. I had a best city friend named Lisa. She was 1 of 10 kids from one of the large Irish families on the block. So many kids to play with! Few families had a car, as most of the fathers worked at one of the many manufacturing jobs that were in Kensington, and could walk or take the trolley. And there were lots of large churches which the families walked to on Sunday. There was also “taprooms” as they were called, and my grandparents would sometimes take me with them to the "corner tap" when I was really little. I remember them having me dance on the table at the taproom a couple of times, when I was probably 3 or so. Just another fond and happy memory with lots of happy people.

A really special treat was when my grandma would take me to “The Avenue” as she called it. Allegheny Avenue.

“Kensington is today frequently associated with its open-air drug market. Today, the epicenter of the drug trade is near the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny avenues, which by 2020 housed a billion-dollar drug market with rampant open drug use and dealing on sidewalks and in public parks, particularly McPherson Square.[8] Kensington's troubles with the drug trade have attracted national and even international news coverage.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington,_Philadelphia

Yes, that’s where we went. K&A as it is known now. It was like Disneyland to me, as we would take the trolley to see all the small shops and street vendors there. It was quite a scene, with the cotton candy, the music, all the wonderful goods for sale, and of course the Philly hot pretzels. And overhead was the magical elevated train, which was awesome to me to have a train traveling up there above the streets. I would beg my grandma to take me on "the El" for a short ride and back. Then grandma would buy me a pack of feed and we would sit in the park for a bit, and feed the pigeons. I loved them too, and their wings seemed iridescent and magical.

"Kensington needle park" refers to McPherson Square in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, an area that has become widely known for an open-air drug market and public drug use. The park earned its nickname due to the high concentration of discarded needles from drug injection, and the area has become the epicenter of a severe opioid and xylazine crisis”

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Needle Park

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HkT6fd-aGI4

Anyway - videos appear on YouTube daily with scenes of Kensington and interviews of some of the people trapped there. And yes, they really consider themselves trapped, as they claim these new drugs are almost impossible to get clean from, once they try them. And some of the interviewees strongly suspect that they are being experimented on with these new drugs, or worse, this whole “open-air drug market” concept that has been tolerated there for years now, is an exercise for population control. There seems little concern as to the bodies that are hauled off due to drugs or murder there daily, almost like someone wants these people gone.

Perhaps it is population control. Perhaps it is just another cheap land grab for “gentrification”. Perhaps it is a foreign agenda to break down the US. Perhaps it is just another instrument used by evil to gather souls.

This place felt like Hell on earth. Not just a drug zone. Real, actual, Hell.”
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What is Xylazine

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrTpd6edvrw

What else are they adding into these drugs?

This final video sums much of it up - It is very much worth watching, and some of the content included is below.
It has helped me understand much of what I witnessed growing up in the Philadelphia area, and the sadness I feel now for Kensington.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=925wmb-4Yr4

Philly Streets - Wuhan lab connection, Philadelphia Corruption History and the history of Kensington, "Levittowns" and suburban expansion, white flight. Class war. University based gentrification - Temple University. (Previously also done by University. Of Pa, which my son was part of in the 90’s) and Ice Cream Trucks.

[shaberon]

Is this a personal statement or an article?

I remember back before this "harm reduction" when it was crack, they blew up a whole block or burned it or something to flush out the dealers. Dynamite. Philadelphia. That sounds right.

Cities like to cycle real estate by jacking up prices in the middle class areas so everyone leaves, it becomes a slum until there are enough complaints to scrub it, then sold cheap and built over again. You can't do that to the really rich people. You have to gouge the moderately successful.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Posted by shaberon (here)
Is this a personal statement or an article?

I remember back before this "harm reduction" when it was crack, they blew up a whole block or burned it or something to flush out the dealers. Dynamite. Philadelphia. That sounds right.

Cities like to cycle real estate by jacking up prices in the middle class areas so everyone leaves, it becomes a slum until there are enough complaints to scrub it, then sold cheap and built over again. You can't do that to the really rich people. You have to gouge the moderately successful.

It is my own account, with links and videos from elsewhere. If you search "Kensington Philadelphia" on YouTube, a slew of videos come up. It is quite appalling!

Yes, the other thing you mention was the Move incident, where the mayor actually ordered a bomb dropped on a groups' house, which killed several people including children. And then the bombing caused a massive fire that burned several city blocks. That was in 1985, and I couldn't believe what was happening while I watched the reports. Like 911, it just kept getting worse and worse. Many people in the area today are still traumatized by that event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing