CHELSEA — An emergency responder revived a man who overdosed on heroin inside an apartment on Ninth Avenue in the Penn South complex, the NYPD said.
The 24-year-old man’s girlfriend discovered him lying on the bathroom floor unconscious inside the apartment at 290 Ninth Ave., near West 26th Street, around 11 p.m. Saturday after injecting heroin into his arm, police said.
When EMTs arrived at the scene, a technician administered a dose of naloxone and the man regained consciousness before he was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital for treatment, police said.
Naloxone — which has been given to emergency responders across the city amid a spike in opioid overdoses — reverses overdoses by disconnecting the drug from the receptors in the brain.
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Officers who responded to the scene found an unspecified number of syringes inside the apartment, police said.
Other recent notable incidents in the 10th Precinct include:
► Two 26-year-old men were arrested after a police officer spotted them smoking pot in front of a residential building at 363 W. 17th St., near Ninth Avenue, around 4:40 a.m. Sunday, the NYPD said. Police said the men were blocking the doorway to the building, forcing several tenants to walk around them.
► An approximately 20-year-old man slapped a 40-year-old yellow cab driver in the face in front of 80 Eighth Ave., near West 14th Street, around 3:50 a.m. Sunday after the two got into an argument over a bicycle the man hoped to stow inside the vehicle, police said. The man hadn’t been arrested as of Wednesday. A spokesman for the Taxi & Limousine Commission said the agency was "grateful that the driver wasn't seriously injured in the incident," adding that incidents of the sort are "precisely the reason why the TLC so strongly supported the state's Taxi Driver Protection Act legislation."
► A 62-year-old woman was arrested after she stashed $124 worth of groceries in a suitcase and tried to leave the Whole Foods Market at 250 Seventh Ave., at the corner of West 24th Street, around 10 p.m. Sunday, the NYPD said. A Whole Foods manager on Wednesday declined to comment on the incident.
► A 20-year-old man was arrested after a police officer spotted him smoking pot in front of the McKittrick Hotel theater at 530 W. 27th St., between 10th and 11th avenues, around 1:55 a.m. on Saturday, the NYPD said. The officer who searched him found an additional amount of an unspecified controlled substance in the man’s front right pocket.
► A 25-year-old man was sitting in his Honda eating sushi in front of a residential building at 525 W. 28th St., between 10th and 11th avenues, around 11:40 p.m. on July 28 when a man he didn’t know approached his vehicle and punched his driver’s side mirror before fleeing toward 10th Avenue, police said. No one had been arrested in connection with the incident as of Wednesday.
► A 55-year-old man who fell asleep in Hudson Boulevard Park, at West 34th Street and 10th Avenue, around 4:30 p.m. on July 26 woke up and discovered his $50 laptop power cable, $50 USB cables, $10 extension cable, $50 watch and $50 worth of miscellaneous belongings were missing, the NYPD said. No one had been arrested in connection with the theft as of Wednesday.
