Exclusive | Post walks LA’s once-iconic Van Nuys Blvd. for a week – here’s disturbing scene we found

The historic LA street that was once the iconic epicenter of Valley youth culture is now nothing more than a boulevard of broken dreams — featuring drug-riddled homeless encampments and boarded-up stores.

Van Nuys Boulevard — where teens used to famously cruise through the middle of San Fernando Valley, showing off their hot rods and gathering at hamburger stands — has become home to hordes of out-of-control druggies and threatening vagrants who leave behind so much garbage that local workers have to use leaf blowers to disperse it.

One of the few businesses still operating in the now-decrepit area was even forced to move its customer entrance — because the...