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Rep. Ritchie Torres sounds alarm over 'open-air drug market' in the Bronx

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Rep. Ritchie Torres is sounding the alarm over a block in the Bronx that he describes as an 'open-air drug market.'

NEW YORK — Congressman Ritchie Torres is sounding the alarm over a single block in the Bronx that he describes as an 'open-air drug market.'He wants the city and police to clean up Melrose Avenue between East 149th and 150th streets.'You could be forgiven for thinking that we had turned the clock back to the 1990s and 1980s,' Torres said.

A man was seemingly unconscious outside of a store owned by Hassan Ismail.'The police don't come, the city don't come, unless we have to call, like, three or four times,' Ismail said. 'Then the police come for five minutes, they let them go. Go, go, then, 10, 15 minutes after the police left, they start coming back.'Rep.

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