Mugging on St. John's Place
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board: A neighbor on my block (St Johns between 7th and 8th Aves) has reported…
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board:
A neighbor on my block (St Johns between 7th and 8th Aves) has reported a mugging at gunpoint last night (after dark). My neighbor apparently was walking up St Johns from 7th Ave, turned to enter a house, then while fumbling for keys was approached by two men, who then forced the neighbor into the house vestibule. My neighbor was then threatened with a gun and robbed. These details were posted up and down our block this morning. There does seem to be an increase in this kind of crime lately in our neighborhood.
The number one thing one can do to minimize the chances of this type of thing happening are to avoid listening to your iPod or talking on your cellphone on the street. On top of that, we’re always shocked at the number of houses that fail to adequately light their stoop areas. There should be a law…
11217 – there you go again bringin up the charge of racism. What in Wine Lover’s post leads you to that conclusion – or are you refering to some previous postings?
Im guessing you’re writing on an Apple on the basis of your “dellusional” comment.
Ask your precinct if you want to know if crime has increased. Not faceless people on a blog. Our local precinct denies there’s an increase in more serious crime like this. They said grabbing of cell phones and iPods had increased, that’s it so far. One mugging does not a crime wave make. Muggings always happened in Park Slope before. Like every week.
Wow wine love…so not only are are you racist, but also completely dellusional of the fact that you live in a neighborhood with skyrocketing crime. Up 16% over last year, I believe…
I’ll take a dark brownstone street over a dark street with 75% empty condos and old abandoned industrial warehouses, any day of the week.
How’s that machete guy doin up there…caught him yet?
fyi -you can get crime stats from property shark.
i tend to agree with the What – although minus the ill-will to others or our economy. (i would prefer that things get better, not worse just for the record). there is no way i’m every moving to anywhere near a ghetto or a housing project. this includes north west slope, fort greene, clinton hill, etc.. know you all love your brownstones, but i’m am just too paranoid. dark brownstone streets create dark spots where you can’t see people hiding up stoops or behind trees. my old boss learned this the hard way, and I always remembered what happened to him.
even though i grew up in a safe suburb, i really have been instinctively tremendously careful with my housing decisions. i’ve said it here before – follow the italians. if you have 2 + italian catholic churches and an italian funeral home in spitting distance, good! when i first moved to cobble hill in the mid ’90’s i actually saw 3 italian guys chase a dude who had stolen a leather coat right down the middle of court street. that’s the shit.
if they get priced out, they get replaced with gentrifiers. safe and safe.
BRG – I hear and shall obey!
Snark, your new assignment is to post song lyrics into every post.
This one was perfect.
Shoo doo bee doo!
I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue
This town’s been wearing tatters…
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That’s what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street…
Don’t you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
Bayridgegirl:
Not a problem! Already the case on 7th Avenue!