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August 21, 2008
Shooting - Monroe & Nostratd, Bed-Stuy
I have to admit, a murder 30 feet from my apartment five days after I move in is pretty disconcerting.
Are we allowed to report shootings on the Brownstoner?
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You should have moved to Bay Ridge.
Posted by: Bklyn born at August 21, 2008 11:14 PM
No, it's not the place. You should call 911 to report a shooting.
Posted by: GUESS at August 21, 2008 11:25 PM
Come to think of it, there was NO CRIME in the neighborhood before you moved in. Are you planning to use Brownstoner's forum section to make public your latest killing spree? Jon, shouldn't you start a separate section for serial killers?
Posted by: IMBY at August 22, 2008 12:06 AM
Wow.. Next month community board meetings wil resume
Please start attending trust me i hate the senseless crimes in Bed-Stuy as a community we have to stick together get these gun totere out!!!
Posted by: mysideofstuy at August 22, 2008 2:00 AM
Bay Ridge hasn't exactly been crime-free lately either. A beat down outside the Blue Zoo, on 84th & 5th, a knifing in Owls Head Park, bank robberies...
Posted by: Steve at August 22, 2008 2:07 AM
Amber, did the vic or perp have recessed lighting? One terlit?
Posted by: pattunia at August 22, 2008 2:40 AM
The posting is most likely hoax (troll).
And even if were true -- if he/she just moved into new apt. on upper east side and would they feel so compelled to tell world how disconcerting.
Posted by: Petebklyn at August 22, 2008 8:25 AM
I think it's ridiculous to post this here but I do have a question.
Was this a case of domestic violence, robbery, a drive-by where an innocent child was shot, a kid playing with a loaded gun? The type of crime makes a big difference in assessing the safety of the neighborhood.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 8:26 AM
I don't think it's fair to accuse her of trolling. Amber is the person that needed to find a place she could move into with her dogs a few weeks ago.
Dave is on to something however, if you haven't already moved. This probably wasn't a random, stranger-on-stranger crime.
I went to college in south central LA back in the Boyz in the Hood days and was in my ground floor apt when a drive-by happened outside. It was shocking, but with all violent crime like that in the neighborhood it never seemed to involve the parallel community of somewhat wealthier, transient students that lived there.
Statistically you are still pretty safe. Assuming you aren't a Brownstoner-reading, gun-toting thug (which would seem statistically unlikely). That said, be careful.
Posted by: corolla at August 22, 2008 9:23 AM
corolla- some days it seems more statistically likely than others ;-]
Posted by: lurker in the mist at August 22, 2008 9:41 AM
For the love! Why would I be a troll using my real name, with my real, four-year old blog in my profile, if I was a troll? Furthermore, and more to the point, why would I make something up that you can verify is true? Do people actually do that to the extent that it would be "likely"?
I believe it was drug related, but I'm not sure; I'm going by what the neighbors said. There are a lot of drugs in the nabe, which sucks.
Posted by: AmberSantos at August 22, 2008 12:32 PM
I just read about this shooting in todays Daily News ....or Post...cant remember (it was too early!). This shooting was in the police blogger. I thought it was on Quincy st though.
Posted by: nybk01 at August 22, 2008 12:37 PM
Weird. The NY Sun DOES have it listed as Quincy. I'll ask my husband, he's one of the online media staff at the Sun.
Posted by: AmberSantos at August 22, 2008 12:53 PM
Sounds familiar. My first week in my first apartment on the UWS there there was an armed mugging in my lobby, a shooting at the Pick & Pay, a dead o/d in "Needle Park" (across from the W.72nd Street subway station) and I learned that my first floor neighbor was a pimp and a drug dealer.
I was afraid my parents would visit, hear the news and put the screws on me to come back home to Virginia. But that was the worst it ever was. Cops arrested the drug dealer a few weeks later. After that the only predators I had to deal with were real estate speculators.
Hope things get better with your hood too.
Posted by: Steve at August 22, 2008 4:37 PM
Amber, Welcome to the hood. It has its good days and bad days. Try to get more info from your neighbors and check out one of the crime meetings that the police hold monthly. They will give you the 411 and you will see and meet all the conscientious non-gun toting neighbors that care about the block. this neghborhood is transitioning and the more the community cares the faster it will change. Who knows--the cops might even step up their patrols if you ask. And on another note--Take solace that no one is going to mess with you with 3 dogs.
Posted by: HomeSweetstuy at August 23, 2008 11:13 AM
Quite a few neighborhoods in Brooklyn are know high-crime areas and Bed-Sty is one. So are Crown Hts, East NY, Williamsburg, Coney Island and Brownsville. All of Brooklyn regularly gets their fair share.
There is crime in Bay Ridge, but not major gangs and blatant drug dealing. Most of it is preying on the elderly population, bank and store robberies and home break ins. There are alot of bars and the fights have turned deadly, but only about 3 times in the 25 yrs I've been here. Walking alone on the side streets between 2 and 6 am is just setting yourself up for a mugging, which is when and how most of the crime happens here.
Posted by: premadas at August 23, 2008 7:11 PM
Muggings don't only happen late at night or early morning. It's unsafe to believe that. My husband was mugged in the early evening in prime North Park Slope. I have a Bay Ridge mugging story too. Wherever you live, stick to crowded streets on walks home at night even if you have to go a little out of your way. In Bay Ridge everybody is inside and the sidewalks empty by the time it's dark. When I rented an apt in Bay Ridge my first year in NYC in 2004, one of my young female neighbors got mugged in our foyer when a guy followed her home after work around 8pm at night. We were on a nice block too, 95th and Marine. There are both houses and large coop and apt buildings around there but most often I wouldn't see a soul on the sidewalks at night even when it wasn't late.
Posted by: traditionalmod at August 24, 2008 11:24 AM
Muggers usually don't mug in their own neighborhoods, for obvious reasons. They usually (but not always) focus on neighborhoods where people are patronizing restaurants, bars and stores and where the mugger is reasonably sure that the victim is carrying cash.
Street muggings are fairly uncommon in Bay Ridge for several reasons, one of which was already mentioned: there's not a lot of sidewalk traffic in its residential neighborhoods for it to make it worth a mugger's effort and where he might get spotted by cops before he finds a victim. Much of the after-dark pedestrian traffic around here are dog walkers. Finally, a lot of law enforcement types reside here. That's just the nature of Bay Ridge, or at least north Bay Ridge. A mugger would know that by the large number of personal cars parked at fire hydrants with NYPD dashboard placards.
Posted by: Steve at August 24, 2008 4:20 PM
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