Mugging on St. John's Place
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board: A neighbor on my block (St Johns between 7th and 8th Aves) has reported…
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board:
The number one thing one can do to minimize the chances of this type of thing happening are to avoid listening to your iPod or talking on your cellphone on the street. On top of that, we’re always shocked at the number of houses that fail to adequately light their stoop areas. There should be a law…
What the hell is that Putnam – “snitches get stitches.”
Someone explain this to me, it makes me feel like my head is going to explode.
BH76,
Good theory BH76, except that the HOD was open during the 1980s. I lived on State St. (Hoyt + Bond) back then, and an open HOD did not make the area safer.
Some fool on another board (Brooklynian) tried to tell someone that s/he shouldn’t call the police when s/he sees a crime because “snitches get stitches.” I am not sure that one mugging on St Johns makes a trend, but obviously part of personal safety is social responsibility and letting people know it isn’t safe to commit crimes in your neighborhood or block.
So… I haz two toilets…
You had a rule about putting cell phones and ipods away during your 1970s Bronx upbringing!?
ha! sorry. good tips, but your wording was very funny.
ENY: A neighbor I was sitting on the stoop with called. I went in awhile later, I haven’t seen her to hear if she heard anything more, like if they got the kids.
Oddly enough the police showed up like 2 minutes later, but to a house on the same block that had also called about an incident – different people/incident altogether.
“I actually saw a 15/16 yr. old kid get jumped for an iPod and his wallet, on my block, on Halloween at 6pm – in broad daylight, two stoops away from me. There were easily 100+ people in the immmediate area. I hadn’t seen anything like that in a long long time. I was a pretty surprised.”
Did you call the cops?
To add a little perspective, St. John’s is an odd block. The stretch from 6th to 7th has some affordable income housing (although in beautiful brownstones) and there are a few bad seeds.
It is not indicative of the surrounding area. I’m not saying this couldn’t easily happen on any block in Park Slope, Brooklyn or New York, but to hear it happened on St. John’s really doesn’t surprise me.
I haz–great great advice.
What–if you are hoping actively for a more crime ridden city you are more twisted than I thought. But I agree, a 135 hipster walking down the street at Gates and Throop is a target no matter what year it is.
Safety tip #1 – If you hear the word “asshat” on your way home, sprint for the nearest frozen yogurt shop.