Several Recent Break-ins in Clinton Hill

Clinton Hill’s Washington Avenue/Greene Avenue Block Association is reporting a rash of recent burglaries, attempted and successful, near the Hollenback Community Garden (pictured above). The group issued a statement saying that a burglary occurred last Thursday, when a thief broke into a house on Waverly between Gates and Greene, stealing a computer “and other valuables”; the association says the thief gained access to the house via the homeowner’s deck, which overlooks Hollenback Garden, and that another break-in was attempted the next day. After that, a break-in occurred “on Saturday, June 18 on Gates Avenue just around the corner from the first one” and on Monday “at approximately 2:30 p.m., a man was observed scaling a chain link fence surrounding Hollenback Garden before jumping into the garden of an adjacent house. The man ran off after being startled by someone who was home at the time.” Click through to read the rest of the group’s statement…

The alleged perpetrator is said to be a young, thin, African-American male, possibly in his 20s, with blotches on his arms. “We are a close knit group and when something like this affects one of us indirectly it really affects all of us,” said Darrell Oliver, president of the WA-Greene Block Association, whose members include residents on Waverly and as far North on Washington as DeKalb Avenue. “We will work with the 88th precinct and our elected officials to get this the perpetrator arrested and out of our neighborhood.”
Photo from Hollenback Community Garden GMAP