Used to batter a philadelphia heroin den. A welcome makeover taking place in kensington. Drug syringes and piles of trash are being moved away. This is video from chopper 6 hd. Thousands of syringes have been dumped there according to authorities. Vernon odom is live now as the cleanup gets underway. Reporter good afternoon sara and to you rick. Its a wholesale mess on that property owned by conrail. The Authorities Say that the cleanup of this vast waste land of human tragedy will go on 24 7 for 30 days until its completed and cost conrail hundreds of thousands to do it. Its their property where this has festered out of control for a long time. This is day to of the cleanup of the tracks, philadelphias notorious heroin city. An open market sitting on a one mile piece of land in philadelphia owned by conrail. Many addicts live and die here and hundreds and thousands of needles litter the grounds and conrail promised the city they will clean it and foot the bill while the city pays for
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