(DNAINFO)  Gustavo Solis | December 15, 2015 — After almost daily headlines of homelessness at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue leading to K2 hospitalizations and rising crime, the NYPD cleaned up the area.

The 25th Precinct set up a Mobile Command Center, assigned officers to the area 24/7 and cracked down on bodegas selling synthetic drugs. In a matter of months, they cleared the homeless population from the troubled corridor.

While the police did their job, residents and advocates say, the issue persists as the area’s homeless population simply moved to other parts of the district, or in some cases, just down the block.

Source: Homeless Crackdown on 125th Street Only Relocated the Problem, Critics Say – East Harlem – DNAinfo.com New York