Closing Bell: Cleaners on Grand Avenue, Site of Shooting, Shuttered by Court Order
Clean Society cleaners at 307 Grand Avenue has been shut down by court order. The spot has been a notorious hotbed of suspicious activity for years, as we wrote in April when the owner was shot (but not killed). At the time of the shooting, a tipster told us he saw DEA agents taking cash…
Clean Society cleaners at 307 Grand Avenue has been shut down by court order. The spot has been a notorious hotbed of suspicious activity for years, as we wrote in April when the owner was shot (but not killed). At the time of the shooting, a tipster told us he saw DEA agents taking cash and drugs out of the storefront.
A week later, the police claimed the owner and a customer got into a “verbal altercation about clothes” and the shooting was not drug related, according to DNAinfo.
Now there are two signs on the door, as you can see in this photo a reader sent us today. One says “Closed by Court Order.” The other is a restraining order that specifically prohibits removing anything from the premises. It also says “The following activity is prohibited: use and occupancy.” And then it just says “marijuana.”
The 88th precinct is terrible.
There’s so much to love about this story. Like how in the original story about this place the police said the shooting happened because the owner got into an argument over clothes. Now the whole place is shut down, supposed seized by the city, and the reason: marijuana. Does this nonsense (aka blatant weed dispensary posing as dry cleaners) happen in other parts of the city, or is it just Clinton Hill?
I heard a rumor, the city seized the place and is selling @ auction.
LOL
I was woken up by the same helicopter. I assumed it had something to do with the body that was discovered right around the same time that morning.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140910/bed-stuy/woman-found-dead-on-bed-stuy-sidewalk-police-say