Drug Dealing Hotspot in Crown Heights?
This was recently posted Brooklynian.com: Is it me, or is the drug dealing on St. John’s and Franklin out of hand? Perhaps it is me, because I am around during the day and I see it. But as clear as day I see hand offs, and guys going to their stash in nearby garbages. I…
This was recently posted Brooklynian.com:
Is it me, or is the drug dealing on St. John’s and Franklin out of hand? Perhaps it is me, because I am around during the day and I see it. But as clear as day I see hand offs, and guys going to their stash in nearby garbages. I guess I am just surprised by how obvious it all is. Are the cops on the take or just don’t care?
A number of follow-up comments suggest this is indeed a hot-spot. Anyone have anything to add about the history and current status of this location? This is the 77th Precinct’s turf: What have people’s experiences been with them? Maybe these new streetlights will ameliorate the problem.
If you see something, say something. Go to the 77th precinct’s monthly community meeting (look it up on the precinct’s website) and ask the cops to put a stop to the drug dealing on your corner. If it doesn’t stop, go the next month and complain. If that doesn’t work, well, you’ve done your part.
Decades of a war on drugs has been successful in that it has succeeded in removing black men from the voter rolls through incarceration and felony disenfranchisement (altho in NY felons can vote unless in prison or on parole), succeeded in transferring wealth and electoral strength from urban areas to rural areas, succeeded in undermining respect for the law, constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizures, succeeded in providing justifications for swollen police budgets, succeeded in diverting attention from violent crime. What it has not been successful is in reducing drug addiction, violence in drug exporting countries or petty property crimes around drug distribution points. While as a citizen and father I feel all right by expecting the drug sellers to be discrete and respectful in their entrepeneurial activity, it is senseless to expect that the commerce will go away. Of course if anyone, including the nutjob called the What, threatens me or another with personal violence for complaining about the less savory aspects of drug dealing, then I have a problem.
It won’t go away – it will only be displaced, dilluted or hidden by more acceptable forms of commerce or street activity taken its place.
You can always trust The What to pop in with the “since crackheads were already there, we should leave it the way it is” argument.
God forbid any area of the city improve in any way due to public action.
hmm i don’t know why you feel the need to be such a dick about my own personal experience with the neighborhood, but if it makes you feel any better, i ended up moving to carroll gardens, and i do like it better. it’s safer, closer to my work, and i don’t have to walk too far to go grocery shopping. i didn’t really have any say in the crown heights apartment since my bf lived there before we decided to cohabit besides my advice to not believe the landlord’s claim that it was in “prospect heights.” i’m no old-timer but i have been here for 7 years, which is long enough to know which areas of brooklyn to be apprehensive about.
I live on that block and really don’t notice anything going on besides young guys hanging out on the corner all the time. I keep to myself and they keep to themselves. Twice I’ve been called “snowflake,” but I just ignore it.
Can we also get a report on Bed Bug hot spots?
I can divert my path where drug dealers are concerned. Even ignore ugly corners. But nasty germ carrying bed bugs…they are popping up everywhere. Can’t afford to rid of the contents of my apartment because they jumped onto my clothing after sitting on an infested chair somewhere…
Bed bug hotspots…somebody please!
Go to Google Maps, type in 764 Franklin Avenue, press “search maps” and then select Street View and you can see some people hanging out in front of the deli.
i think that’s a crack corner – i tried to cop some green there when i lived on lincoln and was not successful.
Now it’s time for “The What Rants”, Yeah, cue stage in 5,4,3…
“i lived in the building on that corner from 09/07-11/08, and it is definitely the main drug dealing hotspot on that drag of franklin avenue. the dealers mostly left us alone, but they were out there all day, everyday.”
This is from a “Poser” that cannot afford to live in one of the better neighborhoods of this fine city of ours. So this Knucklehead complains about the conditions of a place that was there before they moved in. Now they are on a Blog “snitching” on what goes on there. Do you think that the “thugs” have computers also, Dumbass!
“we finally moved after a drive-by, a hit-and-run, a series of violent muggings, a break-in upstairs that involved our neighbor getting tied up and pistol-whipped, and the laundromat being robbed at gunpoint. up until my boyfriend’s schedule changed so that i was at home by myself most evenings, we were able to deal with it.”
Please tell us– Where did you move to? I hope it was a neighborhood that was up to your expectation level.
“i didn’t like having so many crackheads frequenting my corner, but other than the nightmare that was walking the block and a half from the train to my front door alone every evening, they mostly left me alone. the bodgea on the corner sells drugs too,”
So the Crackhead appeared when you moved in??? Did the Crackhead magically appear out of thin air? Did the Crackhead come from Ebay??? Or maybe it was a long time condition you ignored because you want to live in a “edgy” neighborhood???
“he bodgea on the corner sells drugs too, and (according to the detectives at the 77th), so does the barber shop across the street.”
That’s the money shot! This is a GOD damn lie!!!! I know the owner of that shop and there is no drug dealing going on inside that place. The owners would not tolerate such behavior! This a smear campaign by Brooklynian.com. I got banned from there because I represent another view point. A view point that does not work for them and listen to this– If you keep posting this type of crap something real bad will happen. remember the streets is watching…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..