I was surprised to learn that Camden dope dealers are mostly hispanic. I guess I always associated open air makets as being run by blacks. What about Chicago, who runs that? Is it the same, where it's mostly hispanic who are more professional, and then there are the blacks that are usually less professional and not as consistent? Are the call and meet dealers more likely to be hispanic, and the open air dealers more likely to be black?
I'd divide it 50/50. I know a lot of NJ dealers go to NYC to cop, but you also can do it the other way around. There are people that control the high-level importation equally on both sides of the river. A lot of Colombians.. Dominicans in NYC and a lot of Puerto Ricans too. Couriers get busted at Newark airport all the time, as the same with JFK and LaGuardia. And you know dope is flowing right into Newark/Elizabeth ports and NYC ports. There are heroin mills in NJ and NYC, huge operations.. they get the weight from the importers or from their bosses in Colombia and mill it to be sold locally. NYC has a good reputation for larger bags than NJ, especially in Brooklyn with the delivery call and meets. The thing is those call and meets double as mills so they keep the bags fat and quality high to keep that fat clientle base. The prices are almost double though than NJ. I think NJ is more about cheaper street sales. The mills sell the bricks to the mid-level guys and street crews who you would see slinging in Newark or Paterson. Cheap, high quality stuff. Thousands of consistent stamps milled out. It's two different markets, slight differences. I think since open air is going underground in NYC the last decade these call and meets provide quality/quantity for more $$ since they control all aspects of the operation aside from the importation. The heroin mills in NJ don't sell directly to the customers, the dealers do that. But I am sure there are exceptions and smaller operations where dudes will buy ounces of raw and cut it and bag it themselves for sale. I know personally one of my dudes in Jersey did that. It's weird that NYC and NJ operate the trade differently. But NYC caters to the more upper class clients, so they just turned their heroin operations into professional run courier services just like the weed delivery or coke/pill delivery operations. Those drug delivery service have a higher quality product for more $$ because the people buying it have $$. You can still go to Harlem or South Bronx and cop in the ghetto similar prices to NJ.
Your post is spot on, and I agree with your description of the NY dope market. NY has the consistent fatter bags, but at a higher price than north NJ, but same as south NJ and Philly, with only the amount of bags per bundle being the difference. If you find a higher up connect, or buy enough to cut out the runner and get closer to the source, naturally the price will be lower. If you have a hispanic dealer than you are more likely to be paying closer to what you pay in north NJ, or even less in some cases. I have never had a black dealer, but I have heard of a few people that cop from them, and there prices are higher since they are copping from the spanish dealers, so need to mark up the price of the bun to make a profit, but those are still the same runner prices as usual. If you have a dealer that supplies the blacks and other hispanic runners, then you've got it made.
My friend with a good Puerto Rican connect gets his stuff for cheap, but that's because the guy bags it himself, but will charge more for other stamps that he copped from someone else if either his raw that he bagged into stamps isn't that good and needs something else to keep his clients happy, or if he is waiting for the re-up and needs something in the meantime so he isn't dry. My other guy has a city connect whose dope is cheap enough that my guy is able to sell it in the suburbs at city prices, but that's also partially because he buys a lot at once, and also because the bags are on the small side [see: purple stamp I posted pics of recently].
Because of these two people, I rarely venture into the city to cop since I get stuff here in the burbs for just about the same price I would be paying if I were to cop in the city. And I can't take their connects since they only sell larger amounts and the most I go through in a week is a bundle, and lately its been even less than that (like 5 bags a week, or 6 in a 10 day period). There is no need to drive to the city which is 45 mins 1 way to cop only a bundle when I can drive less than 10 minutes one way, or better yet have it delivered, and for the same price or little more than I would be paying in the city, plus I would end up doing a lot more dope that way since I would have to buy more, and I'm not one to sit on bags of dope without using them right away. Gas prices alone make it cheaper to buy local, and then there is also the risk factor which is greatly diminished with having someone drop it off a block away from me. I hate copping in cars now since I feel so trapped, so getting it delivered is the way to go, especially when I go down to watch them make the turn off the main road, so I can spot a tail if there ever is one, and then I hop in and since its a few blocks over I would know if I had someone watching me since they would need to follow me since the meet is not discussed on the phone and I don't walk down one block, I walk over a few. Like if I was just walking down the same block then someone could watch, but since its like down 2, and over 4, any type of tail would be obvious.
