Murders, Binge Drinking Up in Park Slope Last Year
While overall crime was down in Brooklyn South last year, murders were up more than 35 percent to 92 from 68 a year earlier. Such was the case in Park Slope where the number of homicides rose from one in 2007 to three in 2008. Meanwhile, says The Post, binge drinking was higher than other…
While overall crime was down in Brooklyn South last year, murders were up more than 35 percent to 92 from 68 a year earlier. Such was the case in Park Slope where the number of homicides rose from one in 2007 to three in 2008. Meanwhile, says The Post, binge drinking was higher than other neighborhoods around the city: 20 percent of Slopers ranked binge drinking as their favorite activity. “It’s the real people, and you feel like you are on ‘Cheers,'” said Samantha Stewart. “I can just go to the bar and see 10 people that I know.” The preference ties in with another borough-wide stat for 2008: Drunk driving violations were up 1.6 percent in Brooklyn last year, reports The Daily News, while they were down 3.4 percent around the city as a whole.
Murder Rate Skyrockets in 2008 [NY Post]
Home Is Where the Health Is [NY Post]
Increase in Brooklyn Drunk Driving [NYDN]
Well, I was in middle school in California when Dinkins was mayor, but I can say a lot of binge drinking is going on in Ditmas Park these days! [Begin shameless neighborhood promotion] Come on down to Cortelyou Road sometime, people – after this discussion, you all need a few drinks anyway. Especially you, Benson – you’re welcome to join me anytime!
65 posts and i still dont know where to find the wreckless sordid debaucherous (real word?) bars. off to patio or bar reis tonight i guess.
Please don’t Benson. It’s nice to have opposing views.
“Denton is accusing me of being a racist.”
Benson, where??? I just re-read his post and don’t see it. Again, the tennis line?? You should read it as more a funny generalization than a supposed attack against you!
I clearly don’t think he meant it in that way. I didn’t read it as such.
Again, I don’t see a racial hurl
Believe me I’m not a ‘simpleton’ to humor and comedy…far from it, my dear 😉 (shout out to me). My sense of humor is very sharp and keen (again shout out).I don’t laugh at ‘anything’…you have to work for my laughter….heck, I have to work for laughter ;-).
Believe me I’ve very in tune to words and wording. Re-read his post, objectively. Take your name out of the equation, cause he never put it in there.
You know what folks;
I’ve decided to leave Brownstoner. I’ve had it – I am angry as hell.
In these types of forums, you can expect to meet an idiot like Denton – a person who is always ready to besmirch any POV that he doesn’t agree with by making it personal and below-the-belt, in this case, by throwing out ugly accusations of racial animosity.
It’s one thing to come across an idiot like Denton, it’s another thing to watch people not call him on it. Rather, Nokilissa thanked him for the post, and Biff felt it merited QOTD. Then, we have the conclusion, with BRG telling ME I should lighten up.
If I were some person who posts occassionally on this forum, it might be one thing. I post alot, however, and I think folks can know where I am coming from when I make a case. I think I have some intellectual integrity, and I’m not going to watch a person throw mud all over me, to applause from the crowd.
Screw you all. I’m outta here.
Really guys?
Who would have thought that a post that has a picture of a man drinking from a funnel would somehow devolve into, yet again, race.
Bayridgegirl;
Denton is accusing me of being a racist. I criticized Dinkins based upon his record, as I do all politicians. He is saying that my “tennis” comment and criticsm is fueled by my anger at the memory of seeing a block man playing tennis. This is an ugly, racially-charged remark.
If you think that folks who like to hurl ugly, racially-charged accusations at others merely because they have an opposing POV are funny, then you are either a simpleton or someone who will find a laugh in anything.
So how bout those drunks in Park Slope?
I just re-read his 3:15pm post. Please explain to me what’s racist about his post. What line or lines? I can’t find any!
“It always fascinates me the amount of anger a black man receives because he happens to like tennis. People still hating on him for that today! What was happening when Ghouliani was out banging his two different girlfriends (while he was still married, I might add) with protection furnished by the taxpayer.”
If it’s the tennis line…Yes, Benson..It is FUNNY! And well crafted I might add.
Lighten up, Benson. You need to read it as humor. There’s nothing at all racist about it.
Clearly, you don’t know a racist comment then.