Death at Eastern Parkway Drug Den
A ground-floor apartment at 201 Eastern Parkway (across the street from the Brooklyn Museum), long a hive of drugs and prostitution according to a tipster, is now a homicide scene. Per the tipster: On Saturday afternoon two college students from Tennessee went into 1M. On Sunday afternoon one came out on a stretcher, the other…
A ground-floor apartment at 201 Eastern Parkway (across the street from the Brooklyn Museum), long a hive of drugs and prostitution according to a tipster, is now a homicide scene. Per the tipster:
On Saturday afternoon two college students from Tennessee went into 1M. On Sunday afternoon one came out on a stretcher, the other in a body bag. According to the cops on the scene, they had OD’d on heroin spiked with rat poison. The guys who run the ring in 1M (the actuall tenant lets them use it in return for free drugs) actually were the ones who called the cops, who said all evidence was gone by the time they arrived. It’s not clear if they’re going to be able to charge them with murder or not. Guess it depends on if the other kid survives and can testify (I don’t know his condition).
A television news van is parked outside right now, but we haven’t been able to find any reports online. Any neighbors have more details?
Brownstoners:
Follow the link to a charming photograph that shows 201 Eastern Parkway as I remember it.
Don’t know the mother and daughter in the shot, but they’re very much like the people I remember living up and down the parkway during the 50s and early 60s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jolieg/3368340557/
Notice the winding path, trim hedges and Tudor-style doors, opened invitingly. There’s also a flagpole, where the colors were run up during national holidays.
The woman and girl stand under the brick archway leading to the grounds, which helped give a magical air to the place.
The Adelphi was one of my little brother’s and my favorite neighborhood buildings, because it looked like a castle. (My family almost moved into a “maisonette” apartment entered through the lawn to the right, but my mother thought the place too eery at night. The pair in the photo could have been her and my sister — same casual style common among “progressives” at the time.)
Apartment 1M may be a “hive” of drugs and prostitution, but a building Web search identifies at least one artist, an independent art gallery, and a dentist in the building. And back in the 1980s, a hard-working contractor who was inexplicably shot and killed by a police officer in front of his home.
Man! Every Brooklyn building is rich with personalities and stories.
NOP
The building is as safe any in the area. Unfortunately, many buildings (incl. the ones on park ave) have that one apt that’s into drugs/prostitution etc etc. If this had happened in Manhattan, it would’ve been seen as an “isolated” incident.
“The rat poison is used to cut H since it contain Warfarin, which is an anti-coagulant. This way, you won’t get blodd clots when your shooting up.”
Posted by: james_bong at March 30, 2009 11:49 AM
I do not know about heroin, but a friend of ours who had heart surgery was prescribed a drug called “Coumadin” (sp?)
to thin the blood. It is prescribed by medical doctors.
Coumadin (sp?) *is* rat poison, I am told. It is for blood thinning in heart patients. Understandably, many heart patients are looking for alternative medical treatments to rat poison.
This is sad about 201 Eastern Pkwy. Perhaps I can add more about 201 later, but I am one who reads later in the day or evening.
Great statement, Polemicist, and right on the money!
Polemicist, what a ridiculous and erroneous statement.
This problem is totally because of rent stabilization. In a normal city, such ghetto trash would have been evicted long ago.
not that it really matters, but if you guessed that the kids were white, you had an 80% chance of being right according to 2007 census figures. only 17% if you guessed black. i’m guessing asian.
Bwahhh… two teens go in, one leaves in a bodybag.
Too f-ing funny.
We need more feel good stories like this.
oneasternparkway, thanks so much for your post- i appreciate it. i feel lucky to have had only pleasant encounters with most of my neighbors here.