Wild Teens Trash Court Street B&N, Assault Manager
A reader sent in a disturbing account of a visit yesterday afternoon to the Court Street Barnes & Noble. While she was on the second floor, she noticed a large number of teens she believes were from one of the nearby public schools. In addition to being loud and disorderly, they were also purposefully knocking…
A reader sent in a disturbing account of a visit yesterday afternoon to the Court Street Barnes & Noble. While she was on the second floor, she noticed a large number of teens she believes were from one of the nearby public schools. In addition to being loud and disorderly, they were also purposefully knocking books off shelves. A few minutes later, as she headed down to the first floor, she witnessed an altercation between the manager and one of the teenagers. The manager had asked him to leave the store. “You disrespectin’ me?” the teen shouted back. No, that’s why I’m asking you nicely to leave, but you need to leave, reiterated the manager. Then, wham, the teen wound up and socked the manager in the face, bloodying him and knocking him over, and took off down the street. Rather than stick around to help i.d. the assailant, whom our tipster overheard some of the kids saying they knew where he lived, the rest of them took off as well. No word on whether the cops caught the guy. Update: Turns out that someone did call the cops and they came very quickly, but the assailant had already fled.
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I’m not referring just to b&N, why should you? And no- no more conversation with you. I love punishing you too so by not punishing you now I make you suffer more. a win win for me either way 🙂
bxgirl: once again I fall victim to your rapier-like wit.
Are there big Barnes and Noble bookstores like this in Crown Heights and beyond? (to infinity and beyond… in the words of a toy spaceman)
I really, really have been all over Brooklyn, admitedly at a fast clip in some areas. But I do not recall big bookstores too much beyond Grand Army Plaza. Tell me I’m wrong again, …please. I love it when you punish me.
BC, the sales of used books (but not new books) have pretty much moved entirely to the internet. Alibris, Abebooks, and Biblio (all followed by dot com) are the three large used book sites, plus Amazon of course. Each of these sites allows small sellers (and large) to list books for sale for varying fees.
addall.com/used will search all these sites plus others just in case you are ever interested in buying a book or two.
And, Sunday, the Brooklyn Book Festival!
I live in Cobble Hill and I lived in Brooklyn for in excess of 30 years. I am shocked at how peacefull this city has become. This City is relatively safe. The incident at BN sounds like an aberration. Obviously it shouldnt be permitted to occurr and I dont think it had anything to do with Forest City Ratner and high rise development. Calling the perpetrator of this assault an animal is probably counter productive (some people consider this code). Though this individual can not be permitted to assualt other people its unfortunate that the solution would be imprison. The Courts and our correctional system do very little in the way of correcting.I think as times get tougher people get more stressed and desperate these type of incidents will become more frequent.
ditto, what’s alibris? Sounds like that an Islamic circumcision?
A reason do use alibris dot com and support smaller bookstores.
NeoGrec: what on *earth* does high density (whatever that means in a two story bookstore) or Ratner have to do with this particular issue? You’ve GOT to be kidding. I mean really, these punks don’t really need you to give them one more (illegitimate, ridiculous) reason not to grow up and take responsibility for their actions.
I’ve spent more than my fair share of time hanging out at B&N. Part of its charm- for those of you who like B&N -is that it encourages people to hang out, read and hopefully, buy books. I’ve never seen crowds of teens rampaging through and certainly never attacking anyone. I’ve gone numerous times to the theater and never had a problem If there is, pressure should be brought to bear on the company.
Can anyone verify that the theater and book store have been constant problems, or caused an uptick in area crime?
I pretty much stopped going to this theater & BN precisely to avoid the hordes of pre-teens and teens who hangout at all hours being rowdy inside and outside of both buildings. I’m not too surprised by this story.