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.
Photo by joearchitect
They are misguided teens. They are human, and not animals, not even necessarily stupid. They are misguided because they OBVIOUSLY did not have the basic home structure and support that a child needs in order to buck the temptations of crime and easy money in a tough world. (What else? Do you think it’s genetic?) That said they should pay the price for their assault on society. If not for this, the next time. And then they will be adopted into our wonderful prison system which is sure to offer all the construct that’s been missing. (That last line is sarcasm, btw.)
thank you sam for that totally “useful” comment. Perhaps you should have said, “I myself really don’t know because I haven’t been to any further out neighborhoods but I am ignorantly assuming there aren’t.”
Regarding the security guard, unless they are armed, does anyone really think there’s much one of them can do to stop a bunch of wild teens from doing whatever they darn well want to do? What guard in his/her right mind would even try. Further, even if the guard wanted to do something, based on the ones I’ve seen, I would put my money on the teens anyway in a race down a crowded street. I think the most the guards do is act as a deterrent from anyone contemplating stealing something who thinks they can’t outrun or beat up the guard.
“This is news?”
44 comments (and counting) pretty much means yes.
Jurist aren’t you being a little too light handed by calling these idiotic morons just “misguided teens”? Also I hope you are not advocating violence with your reckless comment about keyboards and fists.
The behavior of these kids IMHO is nothing short of that of an ANIMAL. Pure Vermins! Racaille, bandits, des vrai salauds!
PS: BTW I am NOT white and violence is only ok in self defense:)
I don’t think further out neighborhoods have nice big bookstores like this.
“But is it news – as in an unusual or notable occurrence worthy of a post on a blog about real estate? No, not in my opinion.”
Brownstoner posts restaurant reviews every day. Those are certainly not unusual,notable or real estate but brownstoner is not just a real estate blog- it’s about life in brownstone Brooklyn. If we can blog over every Fro-YO (how notable is that?), then why isn’t this worthy? I think it is.
I think it’s relevant cuz it shows, just as the first commenter pointed out, that this crap isn’t just a problem in the further out neighborhoods.
“But is it news – as in an unusual or notable occurrence worthy of a post on a blog about real estate? No, not in my opinion.”
I’d say that random violent crime is extremely relevant to a real estate blog. Nothing will lower property values faster.
Is this an isolated incident? Probably. Will this affect Brooklyn Heights real estate values? Nope.
But it is a data point of interest. If it remains an outlier, it will be forgotten. If it marks the start of a trend, it will be remembered.