skywatch-franklin-ave-0709.jpgA couple weeks ago we spotted one of the NYPD’s Sky Watch towers at Nostrand and Lexington Avenues. This week, reports I Love Franklin Avenue, one of the anti-crime structures is stationed outside of Nam’s market on Franklin Avenue at St. John’s Place in Crown Heights. According to an officer on the scene, the tower is a response to a “rash of shootings and other crime” in the immediate vicinity. Evidently, this corner is a favorite with some of the local entrepreneurs.


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  1. Monday there were four or five storm troopers with big automatic rifles out and in full view at the Bowling Green subway station. Not to make anyone nervous but it was definitely a little freaky.

  2. once saw a tranny in meat packing district sit on the curb, look around, then remove a cobblestone from the street and pull her stash out. druggies sure get creative when it comes to hiding their stuff. reminds me of that SNL skit whos name i forget.

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    Really does seem like a lot of stuff going down over the past month

    .. it’s called summer in nyc.

    never move to the hood in the winter. ever! always check it out in the summer when it’s hot to see what really goes down in your neighborhood.

    *rob*

  4. POLICE: Check the garbage cans east of Nams once you take down the tower, that is where the kids hide their little baggies for their customers. Very clever if not too obvious to anyone who walks past there.

  5. Brownstoner why did not use the Harlem Crash story? That story is more relevant that this Covert Race/Class Warfare clap trap.

    Harlem’s Real Estate Boom Becomes a Bust

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/nyregion/08harlem.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

    Don’t say because it’s Harlem the same thing is happing around here. Do you know The Isabella has been taken back by the bank?!! That’s something you didn’t know because you are making up stories instead of finding out facts.

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end…

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