Six Nostrand Storefronts Busted in Drug Raid
Six storefront business on a ten-block stretch of Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday were busted for selling drugs yesterday in a raid by NYPD; most of the contraband was marijuana with a little cocaine thrown into the mix for good measure. It was an open drug bazaar on Nostrand Avenue, said Councilwoman Letitia James…
Six storefront business on a ten-block stretch of Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday were busted for selling drugs yesterday in a raid by NYPD; most of the contraband was marijuana with a little cocaine thrown into the mix for good measure. It was an open drug bazaar on Nostrand Avenue, said Councilwoman Letitia James The businesses involved included Chris Restaurant, Press Play CD King, D & Z Variety, though it’s believed that they were all operating independently. At lunch it turned into a veritable pot-luck event, said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. You could go in and get drugs in the food itself or go to the back of the store and pick it up or even buy it over the counter. Eight individuals were arrested, though if last year’s drug bust on Putnam and Grand is any indication, the businesses will probably be back up and running in no time. Absurd.
Off-Menu Goods Attract the Police’s Attention [NY Times]
Eight Arrested In Crown Heights Drug Raid [NY1]
Eight Arrested In Nostrand Avenue Drug Raid [Nostrand Park]
Donatella you’re missing my question. Nobody is saying crime doesn’t exist. The question is the driver.
Correction….5 shootings in FT Greene in last 2 weeks of March (2 fatal) and one of innocent bystander. Meant to say that these 88th Precinct crimes didn’t even show up in recent reports of crime increases – – the 76th and 84th outpaced 88th in increases in crime.
By BSD on April 7, 2010 11:45 AM
“this bs is what is behind most of the crime we are seeing”
What proof? Most of the crime I hear of is breaking & entering and muggings. You assume they’re jacking people for their drug money?
BSD, have you been aware of the recent crime surge in Brooklyn? In Fort Greene alone, the last 2 weeks of March we saw drive-by shootings (including innocent passersby), (Greene and Clinton), 2 fatal shootings on top of Ingersoll houses, Whitman houses, and several muggings. They didn’t even 88th Pct in recent reports — the 84th and 76th –higher increase in crime.
Noki,
72 may sound old but she was, like, 29 at the height of Haight Ashbury, so . . .
Or perhaps word is spreading through the senior centers due to oncology outpatient clinics in states legalizing medical use. My parents and their circle of friends were pretty straight-laced as late 1970s NYC suburban liberals go (i.e., wine and cheese was the drug of choice, no key parties, etc.), but when one of my parents’ friends started undergoing chemo, all the parents in our circle started sheepishly asking us teens if we knew where they could score some pot.
DIBS, I’m not saying it’s not, but I also haven’t seen a study that it is. I’d just be curious to read an objective study that demonstrates greater than 50% of crimes are drug related in some way.
BSD, most crimes involving theft are typically to support an underlying drug habit, not to pay the rent or buy a Prada bag.
As for the locations, one is on Nostrand between St Johns and Lincoln on the west side of the street, a private house on Lincoln, a storefront on St Johns just off Nostrand, one on Rodgers, and then the three that are being reported in the papers which are on Nostrand between Bergen and St Marks
“this bs is what is behind most of the crime we are seeing”
What proof? Most of the crime I hear of is breaking & entering and muggings. You assume they’re jacking people for their drug money?
Montrose Morris, Amen. Once upon a time, I lived in Manhattan during Operation Pressure Point, Koch era.
It scattered drug dealers from the LES to the UES where I lived, and I got a “grocery” store directly below me in same building in the “business”. We went from being a sleepy, peaceful area to drug trade central, and a one block crime nexus. The area became a preview of hell.
They sold pot (and coke) in the store and fought on the street and broke windows with baseball bats at 4 am in the morning and it was a nightmare.
This is what we are seeing in Brooklyn and this bs is what is behind most of the crime we are seeing. Marijuana and cocaine are illegal. If people don’t like that, start a movement and channel your energy into that. But for now, bravo to the NYPD and Leticia James for her effort.