Violent Mugging on South Elliott Place
A young woman reader writes: Last Thursday night at 1:30 a.m. I was mugged on South Elliott Place between Dekalb and Lafayette by 2 young men (between 16-25, but didn’t get a good look). They came running up from behind and grabbed me (not sure if they jumped out of the bushes or a dark…
A young woman reader writes:
Last Thursday night at 1:30 a.m. I was mugged on South Elliott Place between Dekalb and Lafayette by 2 young men (between 16-25, but didn’t get a good look). They came running up from behind and grabbed me (not sure if they jumped out of the bushes or a dark area under a stoop), threw me to the sidewalk, said they were holding a gun to my head, frisked me, and took my wallet, phone, keys, bag, and then ran away.
The victim also reports that, according to a detective at the 88th Precinct, this is the third time in the last week that a woman in her early 20s has been mugged by two men of matching descriptions between 1 and 4 a.m.
I’m not sure it’s people forgetting so much as newcomers not having lived through tough NYC and they just haven’t got a clue. I try to warn people sometimes about holding their purses better, not tying up their dogs, not wearing the headphones while walking alone at night….they look at me like I’m nuts!
Sorry to hear about what happenened
Isn’t that the rules once living in NYC when leaving the subway after midnight:
To make sure you don’t walk alone
To make sure you are not the last going above ground
To not walk on the sidewalk but the street
To be on the phone while walking
To take a cab
Its what you deal with when living in NYC ?
It has to do with economic situations and different classes living in one neighborhood, not living in a gated community
A woman should not walk by herself at that time period.
I pick my wife up from the subway after a certain time.
Nothing to do with the neighborhood, all with a big city.
Yes, this is the good side of the park and that is why the muggings happen here. It’s the jackass and dangerous kids from the projects that cross the park to prey on people. These people have nothing to do with economic woes, they are criminals. Wall Street is cutting jobs, not Burger King.
This is the time of year that one has to be most on guard. Crooks need extra cash for the holidays too. In the old days, a young woman coming home by herself at 1:30 AM would definitely be on her guard with her can of mace visibly in her hand. Actually, she would have taken a cab if she possibly could. There is no better expenditure of money than on personal safetly. Cabs late at night for single women are one of those expenditures.
People have forgotten the old street rules. They forget this is New York.
are we to expect more of this, with the changing economic climate?
I told a friend, who is planning to move to Brooklyn from Manhattan to beware of certain blocks in boerum hill for the same reason…muggings, often by young kids. Seems like we have a spate of them, then you see beat cops for about 2 weeks, they disappear & it starts up again.
Good God. I hate to say it, but I must admit that on some barely submerged level, I am relieved we haven’t made our move yet.
I know all the arguments. This is New York City; lot’s of crime in other neighborhoods too; gentrification doesn’t mean bad things don’t still happen; this was at 1:30 a.m…
But it seems to my easily spooked eye, that Ft. Greene has had too great a lion’s share of grisly or scary stuff lately. The dissected body in a bag on Washington Park; the shooting on St. Felix; the wild west shoot-out and homicide on Greene at Hanson Place; the violent mugging of the man walking his kid to school around Clinton & DeKalb…
Anyway. My .02.
That sucks. Isn’t this what Brownstoner calls the “good” side of the park? Also seems to be right next to two subway stops. Punks probably wait by the subway exits to pick marks. Do the Guardian Angels still exist?
If the descriptions are that generic I’m not suprised the other guys match the description…
I’m very sorry to hear about it and appreciate the sharing.