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]
just because you overpaid for your brownstone in the hood do not expect it to be a utopia
parts of brooklyn are dangerous get used to it and buy a flak jacket
did you not know what goes on in this area before you decided to move there?
this should only get worse as the warm weather killing season opens
you must be new to brookyln
I think the What needs to once and for all be banned from this website.
Thank you for your helpful comments Mr/Ms self-righteous 11:48.
I think the point is EVERYONE deserves a safe neighborhood and police protection.
Clearly there is a lack of will in the 88th to deal with this problem that just festers and festers.
“The What contributes to this atmosphere with his ghetto behavior.”
If you live in Clinton Hill, you live in the ghetto. I know this awaking will take some time. If you live in Bed Stuy, you live in the ghetto also. Your are suffering from a bad case of Cognitive dissonance!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling when a person begins to understand that something the person believes to be true is, in fact, not true. Similar to ambivalence, the term cognitive dissonance describes conflicting thoughts or beliefs (cognitions) that occur at the same time, or when engaged in behaviors that conflict with one’s beliefs. In academic literature, the term refers to attempts to reduce the discomfort of conflicting thoughts, by performing actions that are opposite to one’s beliefs.
Yep, you brought a overpriced Brownstone and now you what it all to stop. Nope life goes on.
“I’m all for free speech but music that has lyrics like that wouldn’t stay up on my website.
And the “Damn Brownstoner, They missed you!!!” comment is incredibly inappropriate and truly an extreme act of cowardice.”
This Blog promotes covert Race/Class warfare everyday and I’m a coward?! I’m on the front lines of this thing. The What has not and never will be a “coward”!!!
The What (DUCK!!!!!!!!!!)
Someday this war is gonna end….
BTW The cops will do something about this when a white person gets shot! So when they start shooting be a martyr!
past 96th street on the east side isn’t the UES, it’s harlem.
that’s it. I used to enjoy the what and sometimes even agree. his comment was above and beyond what is acceptable. The What, I ask you to apologize now to Brownstoner for your comment – it was an incitement to violence to someone who has done nothing to harm you and continues to allow you to post invective. if you’re too ashamed to apologize in front of the community, send him and e-mail, but do it. I cannot believe that you are that inhuman – if, indeed, you are that crass and committed to violence in the community, then you should slink away and refrain from anymore commentary. you’ve lost any platform you ever had if you can’t pull that yourself. I am saddened and disgusted. Brownstoner, even if I have disagreed with you much in the past, I am sorry that you had to read that from someone who pretends to have something of value to say.
How much do brownstones sell for in the 10 block radius surrounding this incident??
1 million, 1.5 million, 2 even??
Asinine.
This is a 500K neighborhood, in my opinion.
this stuff does happen in UES, UWS if you look past 96th street..
and it will never go away, as long as there are customers there.
as for real estate, that’s why it’s cheaper in CH than FG, cheaper in PH than PS, etc.
was the upper east side comment really necessary brownstoner?
this WOULDN’T happen in the UES because it is not a fringe neighborhood. As previously stated, it’s the people in the neighborhood who are selling the drugs and commiting these crimes.
A little more should go into selecting a neighborhood than housing stock. Perhaps likelihood of getting shot should play a roll.
and don’t say this could have happened anywhere. when you live in the ghetto, ghetto things happen.