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]
There are a couple of dealers who work that block, particularly in the house near where this happened, and on the other side of Grand. This will most likely put more scrutiny on them, and end up with more arrests than just the shooter.
The truth is that no one here knows the full story. Yes, the word on the street is that this guy was a dealer and that this was a drug related shooting, but even that doesn’t make it true. It’s a tragedy whether it was drug related or not. The police will catch the shooter, but will the real truth ever come out? Probably not.
Hey, look at the bright side – a few years ago shootings over here weren’t news. If the NY Post, NY Times, Channels 7 and 4 are now interested, the neighborhood is looking up…and they’re interested because of the price of real estate here these days, and phenomena like this blog. Blog on, folks…
clinton hill = dangerous
Check out the thread from December 8, 2006 Open House Picks, on 48 Clifton.
Yeah, what about all the people who _don’t_ get shot in Clinton Hill! Who ever writes an article about that?
Also, most people who get shot don’t get killed. Medical fact!
Plus, stroller moms and bratty kids are a bigger problem anyway. Perspective, people, perspective!
9:33,
Yes, the crime rate has done down and no, I never once said that people should tackle gunmen. Still my original point stands. I said, to repeat, that these types of incidents are far more likely to occur in areas with higher crime rates and that the idea of this being equally possible across the board is a myth. Nothing in your reply disproves this.
Um, hate to tell you this, 9:33, but most of those who consented to talk to the news crews were part of the street life over here. The reporters tried hard to interview far more people, who simply turned away in fear of retaliation. Sumpter was a known dealer, and the behavior described (buying kids shoes, trips, etc.) is typical of dealers recruiting. Chances are nobody aware of the truth wanted to mess with future retaliation. Also, nobody is reporting the scene in front of #22 last night (starting around 9PM and still ongoing at 2AM), complete with a police car that did nothing to stop the noise (the cops were aware of Sumpter’s activities), hundreds of candles, screaming, shouting, fighting, etc. This is what comes of gentrification: pressure on drug turf, and possibly drug wars. Watch your step on your way to Choice…
What are you talking about, they absolutely snitched on the guy as they should have. His real name wasn’t in the article because the witnesses probably only know him by the name Psycho, but that’s plenty for the police. You think someone would have tackled the guy in Brooklyn Heights? What do you want from these folks? And I’m quite certain that more people have been caught in the crossfire in poorer neighborhoods over the last twenty years, but that number in the last ten years is undoubtedly a fraction of what it was in the previous ten. Regardless, this murder seems more like an unstable person snapped and purposely murdered an innocent person, which I believe happens (or more commonly doesn’t happen) across class lines.