Police Tower Now on Nostrand
Biking down Nostrand Avenue on Monday, we couldn’t help but notice the police surveillance tower that had been set up at the corner of Lexington Avenue. A tweet from @FreshDotDaily yesterday reminded us that we’d snapped a photo. (The official name for the tower is Sky Watch. It was set up in Dumbo last year.)…
Biking down Nostrand Avenue on Monday, we couldn’t help but notice the police surveillance tower that had been set up at the corner of Lexington Avenue. A tweet from @FreshDotDaily yesterday reminded us that we’d snapped a photo. (The official name for the tower is Sky Watch. It was set up in Dumbo last year.) Anyone know when this was set up or why? Was there a particular incident recently that might have caused NYPD to take it up a notch on this corner?
Anyone ever saw someone going into that thing?
How do they go to the bathroom?
Is there a weight limit for that thing?
What if you eat your lunch and you get stuck in there unable to come out? Do they call the FDNY to get them out?
If you pass some gas, does it become heavier or lighter, and is it more or less likely to tip if there is a strong wind blowing?
A police van was driving through our neighborhood with a loudspeaker asking for tips regarding a shooting of a detective on Saturday (6/13?).
I think it’s very likely that the tower appeared there as a result of that but also because that corner has been a corner for dealing drugs from my observations.
The tower seems to have changed that for now. But it’s presence is intimidating even though I haven’t done anything wrong.
It was placed there because the savages that live there can’t behave themselves like normal human beings.
If more anonymous law-abiding Brooklynites had guns thugs wouldn’t be able to just randomly shoot-up neighborhoods, they would be afraid some old lady would pull out the dillinger. I’m sick of all these “anti-gun” politicos with their armed bodyguards telling the storeowners in high crime areas they have no right to defend themselves.
Personally I usually safer when I see police presence in the streets.
If you have done nothing wrong why would you be worried?
If a shooting happens in your neighborhood and you don’t see cops around the next days, wouldn’t you feel neglected?
The skycop thingie was also parked in the Red Hook projects for awhile a few months ago; I saw it on my way to Fairway and wondered about it, specifically, how the project residents felt about it. Folks in rough nabes seem to swing between accusing the city of neglecting them and their crime problems and harassing their youth in a “police state”; this one felt a bit more like the latter.
What, you know that the word can be used in a quote like that and especially in the context that he did. We don’t have to refer you to Randall Kennedy, do we?
While riding my bike, I heard gun shots near this corner last week. Later, I confirmed on Gothamist Newsmaps that shots were fired at Clifton and Nostrand (1 block away). Perhaps there’s a correlation.
I am incapable to tellnig the difference between a slur and the use of a word in a “clinical” sense, since all of my words are intended as slurs. I don’t deserve a pass on my covert racial comments, but Mr. B gives me one alomost every day.