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July 31, 2006
More on Hotel Deal, Shooting on Downing
The Daily News has a few more details on the deal the City cut with scumbag hotel operator Moses Fried last week. First of all, the owner of the Lefferts Hotel was only fined a token $2,500. As we reported last week, the deal will eliminate the hourly business as well as require the hotel to install video cameras in the lobby, hire security guards and post signs warning that prostitution is illegal. The police will also have the right to search the hotel without a warrant - excluding occupied rooms - for a year. Lastly, Fried must also bring the building up to code before reopening. "It's an excellent settlement for the City of New York," said NYPD lawyer Mohamed Quhshi. We shall see.
In other Clinton Hill news, two people were shot at 1 a.m. on Sunday at the corner of Gates and Downing--only a block from the police lock-down on Grand Avenue. A 21-year-old man named Terry McNichols was killed when a gunman fired several shots into a group of people on the corner; an unnamed woman was hit in the foot.
Sleaze Hotel Deal Suite for City [NY Times]
Man Shot on Downing and Gates [NY Times]
Comments
That's a block from my house, eek!!
I guess I was asleep when it happened as I didn't hear shots over the weekend.
Posted by: Rich W at July 31, 2006 11:24 AM
That's my block. Detectives were out all most of Sunday interviewing folks but no one here knew the kid who died nor the shooter. When the press showed up Sunday morning, everything had been cleaned up so there weren't any good pictures to take. No one wanted to talk to the press for fear that they'd misconstrue something or put someone in danger. I guess that's why the articles are so short.
Posted by: yattacheese at July 31, 2006 12:07 PM
Is now a good time to start discussing making prostitution legal?
Posted by: JoshK at July 31, 2006 2:46 PM
I just recently moved to the area and am a few blocks away on Grand & Gates. The newspaper article states that the victim who died was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. Can anyone explain why a critically injured person in Clinton Hill might be taken to a hospital in Manhattan (rather than nearby Brooklyn Hospital on Dekalb or other Brooklyn hospital in close proximity)?
In addition, what the better hospitals in the Brooklyn area? Just in case, I or someone I know is in need of emergency care.
Posted by: clintonhill23 at July 31, 2006 6:09 PM
I know that the kind of injury or wound you have determines, in part, which emergency room they take you to. For example, Woodhull is supposed to have an excellent trauma unit, another hospital is where you take burn patients, etc, etc. But you are right, it does seem strange to take them all the way to Bellview. Having watched many an ambulance try to get through the streets of Manhattan, I've always prayed that if I ever need one, I'm in Brooklyn.
As far as local hospitals go, I've heard that Brooklyn Hospital on DeKalb has a good general emergency room, as does Long Island Hospital on Atlantic and Hicks. (Or is that Henry?)
Posted by: CrownHeightsProud at July 31, 2006 9:32 PM
I love the Boston Strangler throat massage quote in the article about Lefferts Hotel.
Posted by: ClassonClassy at July 31, 2006 9:43 PM
As for ERs, I've heard Kings County has the best rep in Bklyn for GSWs, although I'm sure Woodhull has plenty experience in that dept. too...and experience is what counts. But the guys/gals on the ambulance may have been able to get to the East Side quicker (and Bellevue is renowned for high-volume GSW and other trauma caseload in Manhattan). Having been in EMS ambulances numerous times as patients were "shipped," I found the teams used a lot of care and tactical savvy deciding where to go.
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at July 31, 2006 11:19 PM
That's funny, I've always heard that Woodhull is like the Hotel California of hospitals. LOL
Posted by: Rich W at August 1, 2006 10:09 AM
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