Gate Thief Strikes Twice in Broad Daylight
A reader in northern Crown Heights sent the photo above on Friday, noting: Ours and our neighbor’s front gates were stolen about an hour ago…Yes, in broad daylight and when contractors were working in our house and the house next door (gate was strangely not stolen from that house but from the next one over)….
A reader in northern Crown Heights sent the photo above on Friday, noting:
Ours and our neighbor’s front gates were stolen about an hour ago…Yes, in broad daylight and when contractors were working in our house and the house next door (gate was strangely not stolen from that house but from the next one over). I guess another example of the apparent increase in Brooklyn street crime you’ve been reporting on. I hate to knock our hood since it gets knocked enough by other posters on your blog, but people should be aware that yet another item is vulnerable (I never thought someone would take the trouble to steal something as heavy as this and I can’t imagine it’s worth much). Scrap metal? Or could one of these salvage places actually be willing to buy stuff “off of the back of a truck”?
Maybe attractive to someone looking for the Key Master? First we’ve heard of a thief absconding with gates.
“It’s those who have lived here a long time (perhaps even born here) who are very down on the city and seem to think that you should be able to buy a house in Park Slope for 200K.”
I think it’s the ones who left early when Brooklyn was like Beruit who are down. Why? because they know they left way too early.
Y’all are just hilarious…
This is just a throwback to crimes from 20-30 years ago.
Remember when:
1) Gates were stolen off the front of houses?
2) Hubcaps were stolen from cars and resold to the auto supply shops that used to line Atlantic Avenue?
3) Car stereos were stolen out of cars and resold on Grand Ave?
4) Garbage cans were stolen so everyone wrote their address on them in giant letters?
5) Purses were snatched?
6) Chain snatchers worked every subway station from 42nd Street to Far Rock?
7) Lee patches were stolen off of kids jeans to be resewn on non-stylish jeans?
Crime like everything else goes through trends. This too shall pass
Whether the market is tanking or not, all I know is that I just sold my 1 bedroom for a HELL of a lot more than I paid for it.
” they’re determined by the cost and availability of credit.”
Ya ya ya ya!!!
” Bernanke does not know whether he is fighting inflation or recession;”
BbbbbbbzzzzzZ Fail! Bernanke is fighting a DEPRESSION!!!!!
“hat no one knows if American banks are properly capitalized”
Nope, their not! They are insolvent!
“The logic seems to be: prices have to go up because I own! Prices have to go down because I rent!”
Nope Asshat, that’s stupidly…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
The comments on price decay make no sense. Prices are only a pure function of supply and demand in a financial vacuum; in reality, i.e., in a society that sentimentalizes home ownership, and thus subsidizes it, they’re determined by the cost and availability of credit. Recent years saw a massive distortion of prices in the housing market NOT principally because of housing demand but because of massive international demand for dollar denominated debt. Granted, the misery index in NYC has declined (as it has nationally), and crime is in secular trough. Now –given that Wall Street does not know what product it will sell next; that no one knows if American banks are properly capitalized; Bernanke does not know whether he is fighting inflation or recession; that no two economist/sociologists agree why crime fell off; given all this, who is the genius on an anonymous RE blog who knows what happens next? The logic seems to be: prices have to go up because I own! Prices have to go down because I rent!
“crackhead” Nice code word.. How do you know it was a “Crackhead” How about the homeowner taking the gate down to attract some attention or some Asshat stealing the gate for his/her Brownstone.
I love the little punk covert race crap that’s been going on here lately. The teens and now some one stealing gates.
I think it was unemployed Citigroup workers..
Citigroup to Cut 10%
of Investment Banking Jobs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121416925522495095.html
Citigroup Inc., in the latest sign of bloodletting on Wall Street, is set this week to embark on an aggressive round of layoffs within its investment-banking division, people familiar with the matter said.
Oh! Guess what! The FBI is putting a large Task Force together to go after Investment Bank who pumped this bUbble up. Say goodbye Asshats. LMMFAO Over and out!
The What (See ya in 2013)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Yeah….who’s looking real stupid now!!!
…..contributes nothing.
Yet another stupid post from Dave, not contributing at all to the conversation.
(lets watch his retort saying my post also