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A reader in northern Crown Heights sent the photo above on Friday, noting:

Ours and our neighbor’s front gates were stolen about an hour ago…Yes, in broad daylight and when contractors were working in our house and the house next door (gate was strangely not stolen from that house but from the next one over). I guess another example of the apparent increase in Brooklyn street crime you’ve been reporting on. I hate to knock our hood since it gets knocked enough by other posters on your blog, but people should be aware that yet another item is vulnerable (I never thought someone would take the trouble to steal something as heavy as this and I can’t imagine it’s worth much). Scrap metal? Or could one of these salvage places actually be willing to buy stuff “off of the back of a truck”?

Maybe attractive to someone looking for the Key Master? First we’ve heard of a thief absconding with gates.


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  1. Hello 1:39

    “In case anyone is wondering, the NYC economy shed more jobs in the recession of 2001 and things were much worse off then, than they are now. So far…”

    “So for all those predicting the end of the world, did NYC not make it post 2001??”

    It’s your city memory that is failing you, we made it out of the 2001 recession with free cash to fuel the real estate bubble, now the recession wants it’s payback with interest.

  2. I can’t be bothered to attempt a conversation with you, Twhat.

    You never make a coherent point.

    You never respond to the questions posed to you.

    You rant on and on about what’s going to happen to traders and speculators–I have no interest in their problems.

    I don’t give a shit about the Citibank bigshots that are losing their gigs–as I said, I’m under contract *now* for double the biz I did last year. It’s a done deal. Half that money is already in my pocket. My work has nothing to do with wall street.

    Again, as I’ve said a hundred times on this site: If you have a mortgage you can handle, some savings, and/or a reliable income, this alleged “mutant real-estate bubble” is manageable for you. You ride it out.

    I can’t believe I’m responding to this nutball.

    Meanwhile: If you have a vintage gate, as we’ve made abundantly clear, put it in the backyard–or else pay $5,000 for it from Olde Goode Megachristian Ripoff Things down the road.

    Rehab out.

  3. Miss Sweetie, aka the t’What.

    “When is the meltdown, t’What? Give us a day, a month or even a year. Then, when you are wrong, we can chase you out of town.”

    Make up your mind …

    “After the Olympics, Asshat”
    “My guess also is after the Democratic Convention”
    “My guess is abound the Fall, when a MAJOR bank goes Ka-Boom! Citibank, WAMU, Wachovia or just take your pick. These institutions are insolvent, Asshats”
    “Nope Asshat, My bet is for January 21, 2009.”

    Obviously you don’t even understand t’what you mean by the meltdown. If every piece of bad financial news is a meltdown, then you are crazier than anyone could imagine.

    You have no credibility.

    The war is over. You are the asshat. Get out. (And stop stealing people’s gates to make a living. Ghetto ass punk bitch)

  4. My vintage gate was stolen on Gates Avenue @ Cambridge at midnight on June 19. I was leaving for a holiday and a Hispanic guy was watching me pack my stuff in the car and he was making weird comments to me. I should have paid more attention to him. My two neighbors on Cambridge also had their gates stolen that same night. I called the police @ 88 precinct to report it and they acted like they never heard of a gate being stolen…then I find out today that 2 other homes were robbed of their gates…the police did not want to share that info with me. They know they should be watching our streets! They are too busy giving tickets during the day for alternate side of the street parking or U-turns and overlook the junkies on Fulton Street. I since found out the thugs who are stealing the gates are 4 Hispanic guys. One of them was arrested last week for stealing planters and they were released by the precinct. I went to the scrap metal place on 6th Street between 3rd & 2nd Ave. Guess what…a line of junkies with their carts getting like $6 for their metal. My iron gate that was attached to my house for 100 years is in a heap of scrap. I told the cops about my scrap metal experience. THEY DO NOT CARE. Cops do not care about the residents. I had my car vandalized last week, my planter stolen by a neighbor and my doormat also stolen. The smart thing to do is to SELL my home and move to CIVILIZATION upstate. People in this neighborhood live like ANIMALS. They take what they want and have a ZERO CONSCIOUS. I spoke to detective Donahue @ 88 Precinct who said I should go to the community meetings in Clinton Hill. Ha! Let the residents chat and blog about it as the cops sit in their cars doing NOTHING. Great city.

  5. “OK, t’What. If the world does not come to an end by December 21, 2008 – the official end of fall, you will have been wrong and you will be laughed out of town. Good luck.”

    Nope Asshat, My bet is for January 21, 2009. Write it down..

    The What

    Someday this war is gonna end..

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