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]
Stats for Clinton Hill.
Median Household Income: $32,135
State Average: $43,393
Median Family Income: $36,188
State Average: $51,691
Per-Capita Income: $16,775
State Average: $23,389
story also reported here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14shooting.html
Drew, that point has past – Clinton Hill is not a predominantly poor neighborhood anymore and police do respond quickly, at least now, because they do not view it as a dangerous area anymore either. Hogwash about not pressuring the police. That outdated thinking is why there are pockets of people who still don’t try to improve things and “don’t snitch”. Well, things have changed. Get with the program and work with the rest of the neighborhood.
10:03, I hear you when you explain it like that. I certainly hope people are aware of dangerous areas within neighborhoods. And I hope wealthier newcomers do put pressure on the police because, as 12:27 points out, the police are often corrupt or indifferent about the crimes that occur in neighborhoods that have been or still are poorer with higher crime rates.
PLG is for wimps. We shoot trolls in Clinton Hill.
is it possible “the what” is the psycho killer?
Notice how one incident in PLG can provoke the same weird person or people to rant about it in every PLG thread for YEARS, but there’s no sign of these trollish posts in threads about Clinton Hill, even when 3 shootings happen in Clinton Hill. Hmmmm, interesting.
12:02: “Old” residents of the area immediately around the shooting of yesterday discovered long ago that information given to the police was on the street within fifteen minutes, along with the identity of whoever provided that information. It’s easy to say “we can’t give up working to improve wherever we live,” but when you’ve experienced that kind of thing firsthand, after having been urged to be “the eyes and ears” of the 88th, you realize you don’t have backup in the fight. Or you make a police report and are told by the 88th that the episode “never happened” because the reporting officers didn’t log it in. Or you have to fight to get a report number when you file a complaint, and go to your City Council person to force the issue – because it’s better for the precinct stats to minimize the number of complaints. Or you get mugged, and the response from the interviewing officer is “what’s a nice person like you doing living in a neighborhood like this? Why don’t you move out?” Now let’s see all the new money in the neighborhood put enough pressure on the 88th to clean up the drug traffic on Clifton Place. It would be such a shame to see a kid in one of those pricey strollers caught in the crossfire…
Did anybody near Clinton Hill hear three gunshots last night?