Slurpees for the South Slope: 7-11 On the Way
Take a Big Gulp, Park Slope: The largest chain store in the world is moving in. A 7-Eleven is coming to 5th Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, taking a storefront that used to house a 99-cent store. The 7-Eleven opening sorta seems emblematic of the divide between the types of retail on 5th Avenue…
Take a Big Gulp, Park Slope: The largest chain store in the world is moving in. A 7-Eleven is coming to 5th Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, taking a storefront that used to house a 99-cent store. The 7-Eleven opening sorta seems emblematic of the divide between the types of retail on 5th Avenue north and south of 9th Street. South of 9th you still see a lot of distinctly un-yuppie mom-and-pops and big chains like Domino’s; north of 9th, a new boutique pitches its tent practically every week. It’ll definitely be interesting to see whether fancier retail starts heading farther south on 5th over the next few years or if the area below 9th is going to stay scrappy for a while. In the meantime, brain freeze! GMAP P*Shark DOB
do they sell jalapeno poppers at 7-11?
nope–crime was brought up 10 comments into the thread, and then the statement was made that crime was down in all NYC. Simply specifying it’s not.
4:19:
this thread is about a new 7-11 in park slope.
both of which are in south brooklyn.
i see no correlation.
what i do see is someone trying to stir the pot for no apparent reason.
The point of those NYPD stats is that while crime was significantly DOWN in EVERY other NYC command, it was up 34% in Northern Brooklyn Command alone. I think that is pretty notable.
you sound like you’re excited about the increase in crime, 3:12.
care to share with us what you’re doing to help out the problem instead of bring it up in a thread on brownstoner which has ZERO to do with crime in brooklyn?????
There were 59 homicides in the command so far this year, up from 44 over the same period in 2006 and 36 in 2005. Five of the 10 precincts had increases this year.
The biggest percentage hike occurred in Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct, where the number of murders tripled to six from two, and in Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct, where they went up to nine from four.
In East New York, homicides climbed to 16 from 10 last year. And in Brownsville, slayings rose to 13 from eight in 2006 and just three in 2005. Four victims in those neighborhoods were killed in one night, June 7.
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you think those number are HUGE? in a city of 8.25 million? REALLY?
Yikes!! From that same article:
“And the spike follows a similar rise in 2006, leading to a stunning 64 percent increase in two years among the 10 police precincts that Brooklyn North covers. ”
and
“Meanwhile, the 84th Precinct, which covers well-to-do Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill and is part of Brooklyn North, had no homicides the last two years – but street crime is going through the roof.
Robbery is up 21 percent, assault climbed 12 percent and grand larceny inched up 4 percent so far this year.”
Murders were up 34% in Northern Brooklyn in the first half of 2007! That is huge. And the fact that murders in general averaged out for the whole city is irrelevant to someone who is mainly interested in Brooklyn.
because the article i attached was written on december 31st, 2007 with the ENTIRE YEAR’S STATS.
not just 6 months worth.
i guess murders were up a bit in june in certain sections of the city, but by the end of the year, it all averaged out, because there were FEWER murders in 2007 than since record keeping began.
you don’t think a full year of stats is better than half a year???