From Am Cup crews to gangsters: Criminal element eyes up Auckland s Viaduct after dark
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Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1
This week America s Cup formalities began and the crowds are flooding back to the glitzy Viaduct strip of bars and restaurants. The Covid-hit businesses are desperate for customers, but some are concerned at the area becoming a gangsters paradise at night, with a sinister underbelly developing after dark. Tom Dillane reports.
Reclining in his sunny Viaduct restaurant, Metin Yildiz is fully aware of both the appeal - and the curse - of Auckland s most visible nightspot.