Another Shooting on Grand and Putnam
[nggallery id=”21402″ template=galleryview] This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at…
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This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at around 10:30 and sprayed an empty parked car with bullets, and in the process hit a female “innocent bystander” in the leg. She was reportedly not killed but, as the photos show, she lost some blood; as you can also see, a number of bullet holes are visible in the side of the building. As most people in the neighborhood are aware, this corner has been a hotbed of illegal activity for years. Two summers ago, after a young man was murdered for saying something insulting about another man’s girlfriend, the block was put on lock-down for the summer, which did temporarily push the drug activity a block or two away—not exactly an ideal solution for the people who lived on those blocks. In the community meetings that always follow, the police act sympathetic and talk about how difficult it is to put drug dealers away, but at a certain point it all rings hollow. If this were happening on the Upper East Side, you can be sure it would have been shut down long ago.
Turning Up The Pressure on Grand and Putnam [Brownstoner]
Murder on Putnam: Will The Cops Show Up Now? [Brownstoner]
Obama’s tax increase will hit NY middle class – how is that making things better?
He’d get a lot more support in NY if he just dropped that soc sec cap plan.
I agree with Putnamdenizen for the most part, except for the venom being excusable. It’s amazing the latent desire everyone has for people to be punished for the housing decisions they’ve made, whether it be the tradeoff between neighborhood/price of the house they want or the pedigree of their kitchen. This great forum exists for people to share ideas and info, but it gets used as a tool for self affirmation and putting people down. Human nature for ya…ya’ll will live and roast on the corner of hell equivalent to Putnam and grand.
4.08 – grow up
Speaking of the election, McCain just came out and said he’d end the Iraq war by January, 2013!!!! WOW
In The Yaer 2525 (Zager & Evans, 1969)
4:03, what exactly is “my group”?
You have absolutely no idea who I am, nor how I and my family are planning to finance our “expensive brownstone”.
I can tell you that any tax changes planned by Obama (or Hillary for that matter) are soundly supported by me and my family. Yes, even as it means paying more taxes.
I cannot even begin to imagine the continued destruction of our economy and of the middle and working classes in this country should the alternative be enacted or continued.
If the country was 1/2 as racist as The What wants to believe – then not a single African-American should vote for Obama – because it will only lead to more problems for the Black Community.
3.39 – will you be able to afford your expensive brownstone when obama institutes his 7% tax increase (removing the soc sec cap) on your group?
I am struck by the lack of solidarity and humanity expressed in this thread. The glee of the racists and ghetto-bashers in the misfortune of this neighborhood (where I live) is really sickening. While some of the venom may be excusable because of the essential helplessness many of us feel in the face of drug-related violence, in general the race to the bottom here is gross.
What this intersection really needs is development of the empty lots and vacant buildings. But of course with all this crime it isn’t high on anyone’s list. This shooting is very disappointing because last summer was not as bad as the one before, and there has been a slow upgrading of the commercial establishments around here. Perhaps when the construction is done on Fulton the area will be more attractive to developers. Unlike Myrtle it doesn’t have an institution (such as Pratt) willing and able to put some muscle and money behind renewal efforts. The churches to my eye aren’t much of a presence (altho perhaps I am not their target audience). Reminds me a bit of the book Common Ground about the school busing crisis in Boston in which the upper middle class “pioneers” finally gave up on the South End after a serious of brushes with criminals. Not sure that I take much comfort in the fact that South End is now one of the poshest areas of Boston.
No “What” – Section 8 doesnt have a “black” face you racist misanthrope. Section 8 is race neutral and its participants are of all races.
As for your comparison to J-51 and 421a – you are way off – no one is saying that Section 8 is ‘wrong’ – J-51 and 421(a) are both VOLUNTARY and so should Section 8.
Why should a PRIVATE LL have to take a tenant they dont want, particpate in a program that requires tremendous and expensive administration and notoriously late payments (months at a time) – simply by Government mandate???
If you said no J-51’s unless you take Section 8 – fine, or no 421(a) unless 10% of the housing is Section 8 rental – also ok – legitimate use of Govt $. But why should a building owner, who simply pays taxes and provides a decent place for people be forced to take the worst of the worst in terms of tenancy – thereby ruining the building for those people paying market rate rents?