Friday Links
Crown Heights Jerk. Photo by …neene…. City Halving Street Cleaning in CB6 [NY Daily News] Recchia Eyes Rep. Fossella’s Seat [NY Post] Shooting on Clifton Place Yesterday [NY Post] This Weekend’s Subway Guide [NY Post] CB6 Cuts Street Cleaning in Half [NY Daily News] Fight for Surrogate Court [Brooklyn Paper] Heights’ Behr Mansion Selling [McBrooklyn]…
Crown Heights Jerk. Photo by …neene….
City Halving Street Cleaning in CB6 [NY Daily News]
Recchia Eyes Rep. Fossella’s Seat [NY Post]
Shooting on Clifton Place Yesterday [NY Post]
This Weekend’s Subway Guide [NY Post]
CB6 Cuts Street Cleaning in Half [NY Daily News]
Fight for Surrogate Court [Brooklyn Paper]
Heights’ Behr Mansion Selling [McBrooklyn]
Hunt for Brooklyn Ghosts [AMNY]
Whole Foods Delays [Curbed]
Demo Days! [WT Reno]
I just called the 88th precinct. They still didn’t catch the gunman. They are having their community council meeting this Tuesday 9/18 at 7:30pm at 85 S. Oxford Street between Lafayette and Greene Aves. I encourage everybody near and far to come out and ask the police to do more for the residents of Clifton Place. I have heard in the past that many residents of these blocks are way to scared to speak out at the police meetings. So do your neighbors a favor and show support for them and for the community at large. We have done this in the past at the 88th precinct meetings and it does help. The police come out in force usually for the regular meetings. I can only assume they will have a large number of off duty officers there. Show them that their work does matter by attending this meeting. Thanks.
Over the long term, we’re moving forward. And more investment in the area will keep us moving in that direction. It’s a lot better now than it was 20 years ago, but the RE agents who tell buyers it’ll be cleaned up in a year are (to be charitable) talking through their hats. The local police can’t seem to make the activity stop. I think when the owners of the buildings in question find it more profitable to sell their buildings than to continue selling their current wares on the street, and those buildings are rehabbed and occupied by law abiding citizens, the problem will be solved. Anyone who wants to help and has the funds to do so can do a little research, identify the buildings, and make their owners offers they can’t refuse. The new owners of the bodega building at the corner of Clifton and Grand, and the vast increase in pedestrian traffic on the Grand Avenue corridor are definitely building momentum in the right direction.
i live at 53 clifton. im scared as hell, i know most of the people on my block and for the most part they are good people. there are a lot of young kids and teens that hang out outside, and they were nothing but welcoming since day one. (also, in their defense, there are few that i would imagine being capable of taking on a crazed gunman) i have lived here for a year and a half and have always felt safe until now. i have heard of 2 (both fatal)shootings nearby in a week! something strange is going on here. it stinks cause i love my neighborhood. we are always bragging about the culture here, the cheap rent, the little businesses that spring up, and best of all, neighbors that have and would always help you out if you ever needed it… i knew coming in that it was a little rough at times, as it can be anywhere– but my god, what is happening? should we not be moving forward, not backward?
1:44: Again, generalizing about the entire neighborhood serves nobody. A block of Clinton Hill can be a micro-neighborhood, depending on what activity is entrenched there. All I can tell you is that on Clifton Place between Grand and St. James the 88th has historically not been interested. Does that mean they have an interest in not being interested? Who knows; it’s been going on for at least thirty years, so they know who the players are and what they’re doing. And PS: if you think self-protective behavior is hogwash, wait till you report dutifully to the precinct about drug dealing on your block, then get confronted on the street by a uniformed officer the very same day asking you at the top of his lungs, in front of dealers actively dealing, to “please identify the people you reported are dealing drugs on your block.” You got a death wish? I don’t. Please realize that all of Clinton Hill didn’t suddenly mutate to what you paid for just because you moved in.
LOL, 1:21pm. Maybe we’ll start.
Regarding the difference in speed of police responses discussed here, I felt the need to give praise to our 71st precinct in PLG. They’re quick and they’re on it. Also the precinct works closely with our neighborhood associations and their liaison officers even give out their personal cell phone #’s and email addresses to residents.
not for much longer 3.51, lol.
your comment just shows how out of touch with reality you are, 3:38.
while you may come into contact with many affluent people in clinton hill, these are the stats.
clinton hill is still a poor-ish neighborhood.
ignoring that fact does not make it disappear.
you can dicker all day about the border, but it doesn’t change the fact that the influx of wealth into clinton hill is a VERY recent occurence and does not come close to boosting the overall median income at this point in time.
3.04, those sorts of stats on income can be skewed to reflect whatever agenda you wish to push. All you have to do is push the Clinton Hill boundary one block and cover the projects on Lafayette between Classon and Franklin, or count the large student community, to drop the median income. The owners of the buildings clearly make very good livings since they can afford 1.5MM and up houses that need a lot of work. Heck, my renting tenants make multiples of those statistics.
Actually, good point, 12:02. I agree that it is unfair to paint an entire neighborhood with a broad brush based on activity in only a few pockets. I only wish there were some way to pinpoint those pockets to increase awareness.