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]
–whatEver
vermin spawn of The What?
Tell us, where do you hail from oh lowly one? Other parts of the Garden State??
3:00 – Those Section 8 lifers arent leaving – in fact more are coming – that is courtesy of (soon-to-be-running-for-boro-president) Warren Wilhem (now known as) Bill DiBlasio!
As of March 2008 Mr Diblasio (name changed for electibility)muscled through a bill (over Bloombergs) veto, that made it ILLEGAL to refuse to rent to tenants with Section 8 vouchers.
Amen 3:00
Sooner or later one will admit this truth:
The What Is The Sun that This Site Revolves Around
Few Are The Planets
Some are the Stars
And most of you are holes in the sky….
Get jobs, get hard currency outta of bank and stock up, because there is truths in the What.
(and btw this site is wayover grilled.)
–whatEver
Only in Brooklyn could this horrible event happen in a neighborhood of 2 million dollar brownstones.
I also opted for a Williamsburg condo over a brownstone in FG/CH. Probably saved close to 500K and I don’t see anything like this happening on Bedford Ave on the Northside EVER.
Muggings? maybe. But when people open fire out of a car window, it is a blatant disregard for the whole community, and shows they are not afraid of the police. You simply do not see this in other neighborhoods. All murders/shootings are not created equal.
“a white cop shooting a black kid is grounds for Al Sharpton and the crew to call for their heads”
Actually, as recent events have shown, the cop doesn’t have to be white, the dead person just has to be black. Doesn’t even matter if he was busy at a known drug-ridden strip club with his ex-con boys hours before finally getting around to marrying his baby momma since she’d popped out his second kid.
I missed the shooting by about 10 minutes, I live on downing st.(I am black) in the adjacent building in question. When my wife and I moved in 1999, our tires were repeatedly slashed, my disdain for the 88th began with my personal 1st visit to the precinct and has not changed since my most recent interaction (2 months of tracking an officer who failed to file an accident claim). The 88th is grossly mismanaged understaffed and mostly indifferent-fact. If I can tell you were to get weed and such from three different spots, who carries and who has a heater in their trunk from simple observation why can’t cops do the same? Well in one instant i do know that a dealer has link to the 88th and kickbacks are definitely exchanged-how can we fight that?
As a citizen what does one do after calling 311 and the precinct to get a quick drive by.I have confronted the dice players, blunt smokers, dime sellers asking them to get off my stoop it does nothing long term, this corner is hopeless and will not change until the section 8 lifers(not all but I personally know many of them) leave, period!Cold hearted ?-come see for yourself.
north williamsburg crime skyrocketing?
why hasn’t this been mentioned by brownstoner?
it’s motto is “brooklyn inside and out”
Only in Brooklyn would the fact scenario of:
“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”
could result in 100+ posts mostly complaining about the POLICE! Clearly personal responsibility is not a concept that people around here have even contemplated.