Friday Links
McCarren Park Murals. Photo by jdefoore. City Schools See Little Progress on National Test Scores [NY Times] ACORN Tries to Oust Bushwick Principal [NY Daily News] Port Authority Talks Toll Hikes [NY Post] P. Heights Store Set on Fire [NY Post] Brooklyn Bridge Park Stalled [Brooklyn Eagle] 5th Ave. Botanica Torched [Gowanus Lounge] Freebird Re-Opens…
McCarren Park Murals. Photo by jdefoore.
City Schools See Little Progress on National Test Scores [NY Times]
ACORN Tries to Oust Bushwick Principal [NY Daily News]
Port Authority Talks Toll Hikes [NY Post]
P. Heights Store Set on Fire [NY Post]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Stalled [Brooklyn Eagle]
5th Ave. Botanica Torched [Gowanus Lounge]
Freebird Re-Opens [A Brooklyn Life]
Actually I did it. It wasn’t a firebomb. Just too many tacos. Excuse me.
Don’t you get it?!?!
11:14 DID IT and is trying to throw us off the trail!!!!
11:14, which block? I don’t remember pointing out any avenues or specific addresses. Did I say anything about race? I could have named any street name in brooklyn, and good portion of it’s residents would have been black. You’ve made a tremdous and race-baiting leap to join:
1. a suggestion that the people who did it were local
2. the name of the cross street where the store was (that runs for many blocks throughout brooklyn)as the likley escape route
3. with your own assumptions that anyone who names your street while discussing a horrific crime is pointing out your specific block and specifically the black people who live on it.
Race tension is high in Park Slope, and New York, but come on…
10:30. I really hope you read this. I live on that block of St. John’s. Why would assume that the arsonist/robbers come from this block? Because a good portion of the block is Black maybe? Yes, kids do hang out on the stoops and there is the occasional funny cigarette smell, but this is a great block with great people on it.
my guess is the owner slipped some neighborhood kids a few bucks to torch the place so they could collect the insurance money.
whats that spermatozoa soccer ball ?
This is like a bad cop show. Who owns the property? Is it likely that it wasn’t a robbery attempt at all, but a way to cover up burning out a non-gentrified tenant? The fact that it’s next to a place that claims to repair electronics and looks for all the world like a classic 1970s fence operation is even better. Thank god no one was seriously hurt, but arson is lowest. Those poor firemen get thrown into danger and injury for no good reason.
No one found them because they walked back up St. Johns street and sat back down at their stoops.
“142 Fifth Ave. in Prospect Heights…”
Hah.
/me sets up lawn chair.