Wednesday Links
Columbia Street View. Photo by Sail Brooklyn. Rash of Shootings, Some Fatal, From Brooklyn to the Bronx [NY Times] Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami’s Condo Market [NY Times] New NYC Transit Squad Tries to Erase Subway Graffiti [NY Daily News] Groups Receiving FCR Aid Want More Pro-AY Articles [AY Report] Dumbo Firm Offers…

Columbia Street View. Photo by Sail Brooklyn.
Rash of Shootings, Some Fatal, From Brooklyn to the Bronx [NY Times]
Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami’s Condo Market [NY Times]
New NYC Transit Squad Tries to Erase Subway Graffiti [NY Daily News]
Groups Receiving FCR Aid Want More Pro-AY Articles [AY Report]
Dumbo Firm Offers Free Lesson Plans for Teachers [NY Sun]
Mortgage Kool-Aid Tastes Like Sour Grapes [Matrix]
Park Slope Strollers Line Up for the Gap [Gothamist]
2007 Streetsies Winners [Streetsblog]
Brooklynlove you’re really annoying. I doubt you’re in a position to accurately describe NY Times crime coverage of 25 years ago.
It is what it is. You can’t gloss it over or downplay it.
by “inversely related” i mean that shootings of this type did not get nearly as much press in the Times 25 years ago when they happened with much more regularity.
and the comment re silence/tolerance/complacency/??? in the interest of preserving home values is misplaced, and frankly, completely out of touch.
i call the cops regularly. I didn’t move away.
Not surprised if the shooting has to do with the sleezy “hotel” on the corner.
Fort Greene, Clinton Hill–same thing, 1:23. Houses cost the same in both.
Saying things like
“the amount of attention the NYT pays to these shootings and the actual number of shootings are so inversely related”
or the standard response:
“it could happen anywhere”
are examples of trying to protect home values;
No I dont live in Bed-Stuy anymore – why… b/c it was too dangerous and all people wanted to do was make excuses for the animals who make the streets dangerous – or ignore it and pretend it wasnt any worse then anywhere else.
The NYT’s erroneous Fort Greene reference is DIRECTLY proportional to their attention to these shootings.
“inversely related”
What do you mean by that?
“trying to protect their home values” and “stand up and demand an end to the escalating violence” are one in the same. If they’re not standing up, they’re not trying to protect. Talk is cheap. However, standing up can cost you your life.
Do you live in one of these communities, 10:24? If so, what are you doing?
interesting to me how the amount of attention the NYT pays to these shootings and the actual number of shootings are so inversely related.