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]
Pie hole? Sigh.
Pie hole? z
8:33, have YOU ever heard of the First Amendment?
Really mature, 8:15. You ever hear of the First Amendment?
a violent summer in some of these brooklyn paradise brownstone enclaves will lead to more white flight
it is a cycle
just because you invest your hard earned money into a neighborhood and take pride in your home and community does not mean the rest of the people in the area do the same
sounds like people want the safety of the suburbs within a notoriously dangerous area
it may happen in years but not overnight
best of luck to you
i have lived in the ny area all of my 37 years and have seen many former bad areas change for the better but bed stuy has a way to go
BOCOCA? What is that? Do they make watches?
Dingbat.
Oh please! Drug dealing and shootings are a way of life in the ghetto? 10:48 “guest” I don’t know who you are talking to/about, but stop assuming what others know or don’t know. Drugs and guns are a way of life in this country – they just tend to surface openly in certain neighborhoods – but the profits from them end up elsewhere. So stop your inane generalization. And 8:53/8:31 my point was that anyone who decides not to move to Brooklyn, a county of 3 million people because of a shooting, because s/he thinks that Brooklyn, unlike say the rest of America, is uniquely riven by racial tensions, because his/her mommy and daddy (how old are you anyway?) is worried about moving to Brooklyn, well either that person is trying to pull our legs and make what is already a very difficult conversation even more ridiculous or that person is a 14 year old in Akron.
There is no way that this thread is going to end up in a good place. Today I feel tired, fed-up, and yes a bit afraid. For over ten years I have lived in Brooklyn, and for the past 6 I have lived two blocks from the site of the shooting. I came into this place with open eyes – my life has not been sheltered, I work in (against) the criminal justice system, etc. I’d like to believe that this shooting is like those phantom tie-ups you run into on a highway which seem to appear and disappear for no reason. But I know better. The area in question has been for a while an odd edgeland where folks pushed to or voluntarily on the margins feel free to engage in many unsavory and unsafe activities. it is only with increased development and healthy street life that this will end. No policing, block patrol will change it. And it has changed – just not as much as most of us would like.
Again, I would ask those who are quick with the sardonic, dismissive judgments – “why?” Grow up, get involved, get real.
“I raise my Family in Brooklyn BOCOCA and It is the Best place in the United States hands down. I would not ask for anything more or better.”
There was a murder last week in boerum hill.
“If you really want to change things…you’re missing one of the strongest forces of change in all of Brooklyn. Churches. Lots of churches of all faiths. If you already belong, bring it to your pastor/preacher/minister/rabbi. If you don’t belong…think about joining. Get the neighborhood churches involved.”
Oh, yes, churches are great, especially ones with preachers like Jeremiah Wright. That’s exactly what will help end racism and conflict with the police.
Hey people! Welcome to the hood. Pray to your GOD that housing don’t fall. Heh Heh Heh, Oh this is funny!! Go to hell!!
Hey Brownstoner I bet you will think about what you post! LMMFAO!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…