Midtown Manhattan’s ‘8th Ave. Corridor’ plagued by junkies lying at tourists’ feet, fighting in the streets

A stretch of Midtown Manhattan has become a “strip of despair,” where smacked-out addicts shoot up, light up and conk out at the feet of commuters and tourists, locals say. “I see a lot of things around here,” one shop owner told The Post of the so-called Eighth Avenue corridor near Penn Station, where there...