NYPD, other city agencies crack down on trash, drug-infested ‘Broadway of The Bronx’: ‘Going to be our ground zero’

The NYPD along with a cohort of other city agencies flooded the seedy South Bronx district dubbed the “Broadway of the Bronx” — booting drug addicts and vagrants from the area and cleaning up their trash. Police put up barricades Thursday blocking access to Roberto Clemente Plaza, the pedestrian park and heart of the “The Hub” at the crossroads of Willis Avenue, East 149th Street and Third Avenue that for years has been overrun with strung-out junkies. “We’re not going to let that Hub go back to where it was....