Enough With the Marauding Teenagers!
A couple of months ago as we were walking East on Greene Avenue between Waverly and Washington we noticed in our peripheral vision someone approaching fast from behind. When we spun around, it was a teenage boy, probably about 15 years old, who had crept up and was hovering inches from the back of our…
A couple of months ago as we were walking East on Greene Avenue between Waverly and Washington we noticed in our peripheral vision someone approaching fast from behind. When we spun around, it was a teenage boy, probably about 15 years old, who had crept up and was hovering inches from the back of our head mocking us provocatively to the clear delight of his jeering friends. Ever risk-averse, we quickly walked out into the middle of the street and starting dialing on our cell phone. With a few shouts, the pack continued down the block. We jogged back to a police car we had noticed parked back on Vanderbilt, told the cops what had happened and went home. The next day we heard that a woman had been mugged half an hour later a few blocks from there by a bunch of teenagers. We’ve heard of several similar instances in the area in recent weeks. And it’s not just Clinton Hill. A post on Brooklynian describes how a trio of teenage girls (19, 17 and 12) mugged five different people in Prospect Heights on Saturday night (and how only one of them decided to press charges) and an email we received yesterday told of a violent mugging of a twenty-something male by a group of boys at around 8:15 Monday night at Dekalb and South Oxford Street in Fort Greene (above). What can the community do to combat this activity? Obviously greater police presence would help, but given the paltry resources the NYPD devotes to this part of town, it’s going to take a lot of vigilance on the part of residents in terms of reporting even small incidents of harassment and pressing charges. And everyone should be aware that a lot of these muggings are happening during daylight hours, often between the end of school and dinner time, so it’s a good idea to minimize iPod and cell phone usage during those times. Please use this comment thread to document other similar incidents that you know about in recent months as well as to suggest ways to address the problem.
2:40, it is quite obvious you know nothing about Bensonhurst in 2008. The Chinese are going to chase out the blacks?
There is very little “white street trash” in Bensonhurst. The Italians all moved to Staten Island or PA. The Chinese (and to a lesser extent, the Russians and Arabs) have taken over.
“No black man walking down 18th Avnenue in Bensonhurst in 2008 will be randomly assulted.”
Complete bulls**t. He’d be chased out of there so fast by the area’s crooked cops, wannabe mobsters, high-school drop-outs and other white street trash so fast his damned head would spin.
2:13, your comments are 20 years old.
There are not marudading teenagers in other neighborhoods, and while both incidents were racist and tragic, the victims were not random. In both cases they were thought to be criminals. No black man walking down 18th Avnenue in Bensonhurst in 2008 will be randomly assulted.
2:10, this does NOT happen in places like Sunset Park or Flatbush, unless there are packs of native-born teen African Americans in these neighborhoods. You will not see Mexican kids or Jamaician kids do this nonsense. They have intact families and non-alien cultural norms.
2:28 – Cobble Hill back then is like Williamsburg now. They Italian and Polish population seem to keep the southsiders in check. There are alot more easy targets in Williamsburg, but you don’t hear about gangs of 12 year olds trying to mug adults.
dogs hate black people-
my 120lbs female huge headed rottie would smack the crap out of any dog (may she rest in peace)
pit bulls? huh yeah right ghetto trash
rottweilers kick ass- best dog for loyalty
i work nights sometimes and my wife is home alone with my mixed rottie-shephard (who is btw a puppy from my rotties litter)
come to my house on that bullshit and and your leaving in a body bag trust me
my dog is not for protection but she would die to save my wife and myself
wow. this is one time when i simply could not agree with the What any more if I tried.
millions of dollars to live in the hood is so insanely dumb.
buying in cobble hill back in the day when it was cheap made sense. italians kept the hood safe.
i first bought a brownstone in brooklyn when clinton hill and fort greene homes ranged from like $150-$450, and i wouldn’t have considered it then any more than now with these crazy prices.
i don’t care how much your stupid white ass thinks you love those black kids from the hood, it doesn’t matter because THEY HATE YOU. you are not immune because you have romantic ideas of 2 completely different cultures co-mingling happily.
what the hell do you think is going to happen when today’s brownstone pre-schoolers are teens themselves and out on the street with this violence??? are you preparing your toddler to fight off roving gangs? would love to see that special class – does it follow music for aardvarks?
shit, LIC and Williamsburg are going to fill up with head to toe yuppies and you’ll still be living next to one of the biggest projects in history.
why don’t you tell some people that they should blow their life savings to live in a victorian house at all costs.
There has been quite a few muggings in Williamsburg lately, where I live.
About a month ago a girl was robbed at gunpoint on the corner of Meeker and Lorimer St.
Nowhere in the city is immune, especially in Brooklyn where police presence isn’t as heavy as in Manhattan.
As Brooklyn gentrifies and the section 8 crowd continues to get priced out, these types of incidents will decrease.
It was a group of maruading teens that chased a man to his death on the Belt Parkway in Howard Beach and shot a man who made the mistake of going to Bensonhurst to buy a used car.
When was this 20 years ago. and that is your one example.
No that’s the only example that makes the news, but if you like I can tell you about the number of times (and it has happenned more than once) I have been told loudly “Hey N*****r, get f**k out of this neighborhood” and it was a lot more recent than twenty years ago.