needle park
noun a public park or public area where drug addicts gather and inject drugs. Brought into the idiom by the
Panic in Needle Park (1966), referring to a traffic island at 74th and Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where heroin addicts congregated
US, 1966
Needle Park
nickname Sherman Square (71st Street and Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway), New York. So named because it was a spot favoured by drug users
US, 1982