Neighbors Complain About Clinton Hill Park Being a Magnet for 'Unsavory Characters'...
“A Clinton Hill park is flooded at night with drug addicts, prostitutes and unsavory characters because the city won’t lock the gates, angry neighbors are charging. For years, neighbors’ complaints about the nightly problems at Crispus Attucks Playground on Fulton St. and Classon Ave. have gone nowhere. ‘When it’s not locked, every crackhead in the…
So it sounds like the people who live in that area should definitely start filing reports at the 88th if they notice something “illegal” happening over there…
I don’t usually find myself over there after dark, but might add it into my nightly dog walk just to check it out and see if this complaint has any validity. I strongly believe that playgrounds should be kept clean and safe for everyone’s children- newcomers AND oldtimers. If people are hanging out and doing drugs there at night, it’s definitely NOT a safe place for children to be playing in during the day!
By East New York on March 4, 2011 11:35 AM
Sounds like Central Park.
Yup.
what am i trolling about, putnam?
*rob*
Actually you are hearing too many of us responding to trolls (BHO and Rob).
Lower income minortites love to live in crime infested neighborhoods and never complain about it . . . is that what I am hearing here?
I have talked to many older, longtime black neighbors where we live and all of them absolutely do care about crime and quality of life issues and of course they have participated in efforts to stop it. The younger newcomers are more experienced with things like blogs and petitions and stuff that makes those efforts more public, that’s all. Anybody (that’s you, Brownstones Half Off) who says white newcomers are the only ones who care or ever complain are completely uninformed and probably I’d say racist, too.
this place is a relief station for the homeless guys who live in the Armory shelter on Bedford. the bathrooms are a good place to get a blowjob from a homeless guy.
Sounds like Central Park.
the “oldtimer v newcomer” crap is getting old. Lets grow up a bit and drop that.