These guys are taking the “H” train.
Junkies have turned an upper Manhattan subway station into a squalid drug den — brazenly shooting up on the platform and littering the place with their used syringes.
Outraged neighborhood residents say heroin addicts have all but taken over the West 181st Street station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, and complain that officials are ignoring the latest symptom of the city’s spiraling opioid crisis.
“There are a lot of needles down there, all of the time. It’s worrisome, especially with the kids around,” fumed Lourdes Bonelli, a Manhattan College administrator.
“It’s also worrisome that there’s not any police or security around. I never see them down here.”
Another rider, Audrey Levy of the Bronx, said the situation has her fearing for her safety.
“We have to commute here,” she said. “If they come down here and shoot up, they’re also liable to rob people just to get high.”
Teenage pals Myah Gomez, 14, and Leslie Ramirez, 15, said they take the 1 train from the station to school, and routinely see groups of addicts on the nod in the morning.
“This one time, a guy had a needle still in his arm, and he just took it out and threw it on the tracks,” Ramirez said.
Gomez said she once found a needle next to the bench on which she was seated, and both girls said they worry about what to do if addicts get too close.
Kelly Grace Price, 48, said she sees used syringes near the end of the platform “very often,” and complained that “it’s one of those stations where it’s hands-off.”
Sonny Estinal, 28, said the druggies usually congregate at the ends of the platforms.
“It’s actually a sad thing to witness,” she said.
The Post counted dozens of used syringes strewn about the tracks, and on Friday night spotted one man injecting drugs into his forearm as another man and a woman prepared to get their fixes nearby.
The lawlessness echoed the situation at St. Mary’s Park in the South Bronx, where The Post recently photographed druggies shooting up in broad daylight after revealing that workers collected more than 20,000 used syringes there during a six-month period last year.
MTA spokesman Shams Tarek said: “Our new station management and other personnel have repeatedly raised this very concerning issue with the nearby mobile needle distribution program and our NYPD partners, and we’re deeply dismayed that this issue has persisted.”
The NYPD didn’t return a request for comment, but four cops rousted a group of homeless people and continued patrolling the station about an hour after The Post made its inquiry on Sunday.
Additional reporting by Danielle Furfaro