Skywatch Comes to Myrtle Avenue
A reader tipped us off that the NYPD had set up one of their Skywatch contraptions on Myrtle Avenue at Carlton Avenue yesterday so we swung by this morning to check it out. According to the cops on location, there are now more than 30 of these things in rotation and this one is expected…
A reader tipped us off that the NYPD had set up one of their Skywatch contraptions on Myrtle Avenue at Carlton Avenue yesterday so we swung by this morning to check it out. According to the cops on location, there are now more than 30 of these things in rotation and this one is expected to be there for a couple of weeks. Maybe they should have parked it at Clinton and Greene though: We hear there was a drive-by shooting there last night.
Well, we were about to move to that corner, guess it’s good we didn’t. But what’s crappier is, I know a lot of people who do live there. Hope everything’s okay. It’s a really nice part of the neighborhood, actually.
I called Leticia James office, spoke to some staff, didn’t get anything from them really — the comment above was as much as one might expect. It is worrysome when it spills into areas where you really can’t set up one of those things. But I hope you are right, Brooklyn Born and Bread,
that those guys will be caught and things will calm down. I am not happy about this at all. Freaks me out.
FYI-> CAPS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS COMMENT. WITHIN THE PAST TWO WEEKS, THERE HAVE BEEN 4 SHOOTINGS WITHIN A TWO BLOCK AREA. TWO IN THE PROJECTS, FATAL, ONE AT THE CORNER BODEGA AND ONE AT THE DOMINO’S PIZZA. THIS SETUP IS A PD WAY OF FILMING EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THE AREA. SOONER OR LATER, THE PERSON/PERSONS RUNNING AROUND WITH THE GUNS WILL BE CAUGHT. THE PD CONTRAPTIONS WILL LEAVE AND THINGS WILL GET BACK TO THE WAY THE USED TO BE. THREE SHOOTINGS, NO PD TOWER, FOURTH SHOOTING, PUT UP THE TOWER. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE WE’RE AT LEAST TRYING TO CATCH THEM….MIND YOURSELVES OUT THERE….
DeLepp, that 1 am train ride was the only time I felt physically threatened (though I live in my own little dreamy bubble of denial); my hassle with the whole area around C and Washington was the lack of decent retail and how totally shabby and hideous it looks. But these shootings have unnerved me; right around the corner and so casually shooting a passerby by accident.
donatella, last night I walked up dekalb @ 11:30 and now that’s nice the street was packed. Though I live on clinton, that strech between fulton and greene isn’t lighted very well.
I deshlepp down dekalb very morning to catch express trains to avoid the G and C, one is worse than the other.
I’m not a pioneer so that downing street house, while lovely wouldn’t be for me.
There has been much police presence in Fort Greene since the slashing –
but I only see it during the day time not at night.
DeLepp, I always get on/off there, but I had the experience once of coming home from Lincoln Center after 1 am and that truly nuts — last time I ever did that. Wow. What a transformation at night. Also the C has to be the worst in the city. If I wasn’t so lazy, I would walk down to Atlantic Avenue and just get on the 4/5 there instead of transferring at Fulton St in Manhattan. Actually now that it is warmer, I might start doing that. I always seem to get beat up on my location commentary on houses, but that Dowling house….it’s two blocks away from drug dealing central.
it was good to see the massive police presence. it was a ton more than it would’ve been in the past.
donatella, we’re neighbors it seems and unfortunately fulton and clinton still sucks which is why if I’m on the C I get off at Lafayette instead of clinton-washington. Even in broad daylight that stretch leaves a lot to be desired.