The owner of Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant has cited drug use and trash as major concerns of his.
LOS ANGELES , CA - FEBRUARY 26: Customers leave Langer's Delicatessen after eating lunch on February 26, 2013 in Los Angeles , California.
Norm Langer, the owner of Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant, has reportedly asked city officials to improve public safety and clean the streets around MacArthur Park to help make it a destination again. He told thehe’s now tired of “pushing the cart up the hill" and closing the deli is in “strong consideration."
It's the issue of the gangs collecting rent. It's the issue of -- I'm not going to say fentanyl or any other drug. It's the drugs period," the deli owner told KABC-TV. Rosario Argueta, an executive officer of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council, has reportedly stopped her kids from going to the area. Ivonnenanette Machado, the panel’s parliamentarian, told the Los Angeles Times her daughter got a husky for protection.Last month, the city announced it was planning to close part of a street that runs through Los Angeles to make MacArthur Park more pedestrian-friendly.
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