The drug machine in New York is so popular that employees have to refill it twice a week

The city's drug machine is so popular that employees have to refill it twice a week. Some neighbors love it, but others say it causes trouble because users “lie in front of it.”

Nearly four months after the launch of the free vending machine, which sells everything from crack pipes to Narcan to condoms, hordes of drug users in Brooklyn are still flocking there to stock up on supplies, residents say.

“[It] “It happens very quickly,” the janitor of a building near the Brownsville ATM told the Post. “They take what they want and leave.”

Some neighbors have accepted the device – which also spits out fentanyl test strips – as a necessary evil that helps save lives.

“This machine doesn’t bother anyone,” said a neighbor who did not want to give his name.

“People use it a lot. They don't gather and stay there. You might see four or five people, but they get what they want and leave,” he said.

However, other residents said the facility, which also dispenses so-called “meth kits” and “snutting kits,” attracts people they feel unsafe around.

“That's obviously a problem. A few weeks ago there was a man lying in front of it,” says a woman who lives opposite the machine.

“We've never had anything like this before,” she said. “We don't want it there. This machine is a mess… I don't feel safe. It has to go.”

Employees at nearby businesses, including an auto repair shop and a delicatessen, said there is simply a demand for it in the neighborhood.

“It’s necessary because of the contents – the utensils, the hygiene items,” said the owner of Color Match Auto Paint Supply.

“I see people using it all the time, so I say it's a good place for it,” he said of the machine's location at the corner of Broadway and Decatur Street.

The machine was installed in the drug-ridden neighborhood in early June and is the first of four machines scheduled to be put into operation in the area.

It includes complete drug smoking kits with pipes, mouthpieces and lip balm, as well as various items such as nicotine gum and tampons.

The machine likely saved at least one life in mid-June when a worker resuscitated an opioid user after an overdose of Narcan, Curbed.com reported in July.

The machine is connected to a computer system that sends out an alarm when supplies are running low, prompting workers to replenish supplies, the caretaker said, adding that workers come about twice a week.