People appearing to smoke crack in Washington Square Park on Oct. 10, 2025. Helayne Seidman

New York City shouldn’t need the feds to help clear Washington Square Park of the pushers who’ve turned it into an open-air drug market — but it did .

With the eager cooperation of the NYPD, federal agents on Thursday nabbed 19 heavy-duty, career drug dealers with at least 80 arrests among them

Per court documents, drugs dealt by the crew that calls itself WSP Enterprise led to at least two deaths last year: an 18-year-old from Aspen, Colo. who’d just graduated high school and a 43-year-old homeless park dweller.

The busts follow years of Albany “decriminalizing” most crime, so that few of these dealers could actually be jailed — with an assist from shoulder-shrugging local authorities, notab

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