Are You A No Lock Person?
The Home section of The New York Times is doing a story about city people who refuse to lock the front doors to their homes or apartments and may have had problems because of it. If you have a story email jwadler@nytimes.com. We need not use your full name.
The Home section of The New York Times is doing a story about city people who refuse to lock the front doors to their homes or apartments and may have had problems because of it. If you have a story email jwadler@nytimes.com. We need not use your full name.
I lived on a rough block of Pacific Street a few years ago. My apartment door was literally just inside the building’s front door (sidewalk level apartment). There were 19 other apartments in the building. One evening, I stumbled home so black-out drunk that I left my keys hanging from the lock of my apartment door….The next morning, a neighbor pounded on my door; when I opened it he just pointed down at the lock, gave me a look of disgust and continued on his way out the building…..An angel was looking over me that night!
I used to live in a 3 bedroom dump, er, apartment in Poor Man’s Gramercy near 23rd and 2nd. Lived with two guys, one of whom left the door unlocked one afternoon while he was screwing his girlfriend in his room.
Someone came in, grabbed a chef’s knife from the kitchen, ransacked MY ROOM, which was the first he came to down the hall – he could probably hear my roommate’s tryst – stole every piece of jewelry – including antiques from my Gramma who had left them to me when she died – my computer, stereo, 400 bucks worth of subway tokens (I was working at Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Hospital) then dumped my laundry out and hauled it all out in my laundry bag, leaving the knife on the couch.
I can not imagine leaving my door unlocked in NYC on any kind of basis, let alone regularly.
I almost never lock the front door when I am home and awake and have lived in the same house for 16 years without incident.
That’s… uh, good to know, dave!
I think those of you that feel the need to lock your door while you are at home should choose a neighborhood to live in that has better people or a safer cond with doormen that are trustworthy.
if you have more than one lock you are parnoid & neurotic like most New Yorkers (Ysabelle I see as a poster child) or have some sort of castration complex.
Good point about the children rob. I’ve never had children, lots of young guys, but no children.
Who ever posted this inquiry must be a MORON or never heard of NY and all its complications living here.
Ditmas, I’m sure you’ll like the camelback sofa and the wing chair. If you steal the collection of Mexican retablos though, you will have god and the saints to answer to.
and it’s doubley stupid if you have children in the home.
*rob*