Overheard in Twitterland
From a resident of Quincy Street in Bed Stuy: “Spent hours last night convincing cops that men breaking in to house next door were not owners – no arrests but they all left.”
From a resident of Quincy Street in Bed Stuy: “Spent hours last night convincing cops that men breaking in to house next door were not owners – no arrests but they all left.”
I appreciate your concern bridges but rough neighborhoods exist precisely because people do nothing to stop thugs from doing as they please.
Our block has a strong, decades old tradition of keeping criminals out, working with the precinct and one another to keep this a good place to live, raise kids and enjoy life.
And you misread my post, the squatters left, they have not returned in five days, the house is now secured and is being watched by patrolling cops. The precinct is in contact with the realtor and will be told when the house is sold.
So we are safer because of this kind of action not less so.
jamesdoran, please be careful, squatting is probably going to become pretty common and, while I understand why you calling the cops, the upshot is not only are they still there, YOU are also now identified as their enemy. There is a reason why people in rough neighborhoods “mind their own business.” Unless your neighborhood starts a Neighborhood Watch kind of thing,so you’re not playing Lone Ranger, I’d keep the complaining anonymous. Just a suggestion
I don’t even get why The What comments on this website. If He feels so strongly about his various, often conflicting and generally uninformed, views there is much more he could do than pick pointless arguments with people on the internet.
I was hoping that by explaining this problem on this site that somebody might feel motivated to join forces and come up with an idea for a potential solution. This is about creating a safe and comfortable community to live in, not about staking claims and ownership rights.
Keeping criminals out of our block is something me and many of my neighbors work tirelessly to achieve. The best part is — it works. We live on a friendly quiet and cool block in the middle of Bed Stuy. Everybody on the block knows one another and gets along. We choose to work together to keep it that way. And just to preempt The What, the majority of people on our block have lived here for many generations and established this community spirit before My wife and me arrived.
But, sadly, as usual, the post just generated a fairly pointless shit fight that led to nothing constructive.
Apologies to all those of you who did have something to add to the discussion, your points of view were well received.
If anybody has any willingness to get together to work out how this problem can be tackled in a constructive way, please contact me via the forum
Nothing the What would like to see more than some violence. “What a fool”
James Jordan let me tell you this- entitlement comes with a price! You are so clueless because those people could’ve altered your life in one second. One second that’s all it take and for what? Just to be right? Just to say I own a house? James there is more to life then worrying about a house! One day we will have to give everything back that we have accumulated. Before you react to this statement please take a second to think about it, like the same second that can alter your life…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
yeah 1929, I lived in a big squat in Mosely, Birmingham for a bit and squatted an old cinema in Islington when I first moved to London. The difference is we moved in to buildings that had been abandoned for years and fixed them up, a movement I totally support. The house next to me is not abandoned it is on the market for sale and the guys breaking in were not crazy anarchists, they were old thieving thugs. There is no comparison
Ach, Jimmy me wee lad, do ya no remember the days when half of Camden Town, Islington, Dalston, Notting Hill, Brixton et al were in the hands of squatters? They saved many a fine house from decline and collapse. By the same token there are buildings in SoHo and the LES that only survived thanks to the intervention of the same crazy anarchists.
How terrifying buckfast, and such a credit to you that you support the rights of thieves and thugs. I dare say you could find me if you put half a mind to it, I write under my own name in any number of well known publications in the city. You are most welcome to come by my office any day to carry out your threat. Or do you prefer to make them under an assumed name on the internet? I certainly hope you are never the victim of a crime, it would be an awful shame for you to have to snitch.
i hate snitching do gooders like u james.thats how people end up getting hurt,dont know how to mind thier business