Drug-Dealing Rastas Have Turned Bed Stuy Theater Into Their Own Squat
The nephew of the recently-deceased judge who owned the Black Lady Theater on Nostrand Avenue recently sent a letter to public officials asking why the property had been allowed to be turned into a Rastafarian drug den. Read more at The New York Post.
The nephew of the recently-deceased judge who owned the Black Lady Theater on Nostrand Avenue recently sent a letter to public officials asking why the property had been allowed to be turned into a Rastafarian drug den. Read more at The New York Post.
How’s the weed?
Not excusing it, but this place may hold more significance than just being a “weed spot.†From what I’ve heard, the rastas regard the BLT as their “house of worshipâ€.
BOMBACLOT…
I just realized the lady’s comments were about the Slave theater.
There really is to be way too much tolerance of blatant drug dealing by the NYPD in parts of Brooklyn. There’s no excuse, NYPD. If all the residents of an area know something is happening then obviously you do too.
Only the theatre is not in Bed Stuy, it’s squarely in Crown Heights, on Nostrand, between Park Place and Prospect Place. Not that that makes any difference. It really hasn’t been kept up. If the Rev. Boykin now owns the property, it’s now his responsibility to work with the police to get the squatters out, and then secure the building. He must have recently been appointed legal heir, as his name is also on the new for sale sign on the Slave Theatre. He can’t wait around for the police and the city to save his building. He needs to get proactive.
It’s 2010. There is no money, and lower income neighborhoods are getting the short end of the stick in services. Unless we want to go back to the bad old days of the 1970’s, we need to get up off our padded butts, and figure out how to solve our own problems instead of waiting for the city, and then complaining when the city does’t step up. There is a Nostrand Ave merchant’s assoc. Nostrand Park blog is starting a Nostrand Ave initiative to bring new businesses to the Avenue, and bring private and public funding to the area. Hook up with your denominationo or congregation and get your people in the building to clean it out, and secure it. Then lean on the precinct to do its job. Don’t sit around and let the idiots reading the Post make racist comments, and make light of a serious situation. If we want a better community, and if Rev. Boykin is looking to sell the property,then he needs to “get to gettin'” to quote Clean House.
Wow, the New York Post online comment section is like catnip for uneductaed racist mouth-breathers. What a crew of morons.
Lets invite the What back for a one-day special
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