Shooting Season in Fort Greene Housing Projects

It’s arguably the best selling season ever for homeowners in Fort Greene, but on the other side of the park the warmer months mean other things. “It’s summer time. Poom. Poom. Poom,” a 14-year-old residents of the Ingersoll-Whitman housing projects told the Daily News. “People like to shoot each other here.” She was reacting to news of a shooting at around 6:45 p.m. yesterday on St. Edwards Avenue, just down the block from the Community Roots Charter School. Police exchanged fire with the shooter and ended up chasing him into one of the apartment towers where they cornered and captured him. The first few years that we lived in our corner of Clinton Hill, there seemed to be a shooting every year when the weather got warm down on the corner of Grand and Putnam. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened in a couple of years but the drug dealers are still there so it’s probably only a matter of time.
Cops Nab Fort Greene Shooting Suspect After Gunfight [NY Daily News]