The sky really IS falling
A friendly warning to neighbors on Prospect Place....last night at around 6:30, someone took a wooden and wrought-iron bench from the fourth-floor deck of our building and heaved it over the railing. evidently aiming for the trashcans, where I'd been, about five minutes earlier. needless to say, it would have killed someone easily. Meanwhile back on the roof, someone left a pile of human excrement in place of the bench. The cops came, yes, but I'm not sure what or how much can be done. what WILL be done is already being done by the residents of the building. Word to the wise: look up every now and again. It's a sad day when all we can hope for is NOT to have our brains splattered on the sidewalk by strangers hurling metal benches from on high.
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Good gravy. That's nuts! I'm glad nobody was hurt.
Um... are there any other benches left on top of your building? If so, do you mind telling us which block of Prospect Place? -
Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
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Nor'easter wrote: Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
Ooh, I'm a block away from you. Some of the people on your block frighten me a bit -- had a bucket of water dumped on me by some extremely rowdy people on the corner last summer who then went on to assault one of my neighbors about 20 minutes later.
Throwing a bench off a building though... that's just nuts. -
apollonia666 wrote: Some of the people on your block frighten me a bit -- had a bucket of water dumped on me by some extremely rowdy people on the corner last summer who then went on to assault one of my neighbors about 20 minutes later.
How was your friend "assaulted"? Physically? That bums me out.
Going out to buy myself a Louisville slugger. -
sillybilly wrote: [quote=apollonia666] Some of the people on your block frighten me a bit -- had a bucket of water dumped on me by some extremely rowdy people on the corner last summer who then went on to assault one of my neighbors about 20 minutes later.
How was your friend "assaulted"? Physically? That bums me out.
Going out to buy myself a Louisville slugger.
I think the whole thing started with a bunch of kids playing around throwing water on each other on a hot day. By the time I came through it was really rowdy -- maybe two dozen people or more, some adults, were running around hollering and throwing water at people and passing cars. I was passing by on my way home when a kid holding one of those big restaurant buckets asked me, "You hot?" "Not THAT hot," I told him, and he laughed, and I thought that was it but as soon as I turned my back to cross the street he dumped a LOT of water over my head. I was soaked and could barely walk because my shoes kept slipping off my feet. The whole scene was turning pretty ugly; I called the police after I got a little ways away because I was afraid someone would get hurt and thought the crowd should be broken up, but they hadn't made it there yet a little while later when my neighbor was trying to pass by on his way home. As he crossed the street, a man dumped a cooking pot full of water on him, then smacked him in the head with the pot, and three or four adults jumped him and started punching him while kids ran around yelling and dumping more water on him. His glasses were broken and he was heavily bruised.
So I'd say that's an assault, with no quotation marks. Ever since that, I tend to avoid the corner at Grand and Prospect Place, especially when a lot of people are hanging around there. -
Nor'easter wrote: Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights -
putz wrote: [quote=Nor'easter]Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights
Good point. I'll move this topic to the Crown Heights board (but I'll leave a link to it on the PH board). -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=putz][quote=Nor'easter]Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights
Good point. I'll move this topic to the Crown Heights board (but I'll leave a link to it on the PH board).
Just to keep this real, I read a blurb in the window of the new Bristen's Restaurant on Franklin Avenue referring to it as being in Prospect Heights. So, you old school dogs can keep insisting that Prospect Hts ends at Washington Ave but some folks are moving on! -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=putz][quote=Nor'easter]Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights
Good point. I'll move this topic to the Crown Heights board (but I'll leave a link to it on the PH board).
Sure putz, you may be technically correct, but the defined boundaries of PH have long been in dispute. Even the MTA map includes that area as part of PH. -
Capt. Planet wrote: [quote=Carnivore][quote=putz][quote=Nor'easter]Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights
Good point. I'll move this topic to the Crown Heights board (but I'll leave a link to it on the PH board).
Just to keep this real, I read a blurb in the window of the new Bristen's Restaurant on Franklin Avenue referring to it as being in Prospect Heights. So, you old school dogs can keep insisting that Prospect Hts ends at Washington Ave but some folks are moving on!
sorry, not a subjective issue. facts are facts. keep dreaming. -
Johnny History wrote: [quote=Carnivore][quote=putz][quote=Nor'easter]Sure - we're in the 400 block, south-facing, between Grand and Classon.
sorry, cant help being a putz and have to point out that that aint prospect heights
Good point. I'll move this topic to the Crown Heights board (but I'll leave a link to it on the PH board).
Sure putz, you may be technically correct, but the defined boundaries of PH have long been in dispute. Even the MTA map includes that area as part of PH.
what map are you referring to?? -
People, please does it really matter! Propect Heights! Crown Heights! what's the big deal. Shit happens anywhere!! It doesn't matter where it happen...Its wrong.
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Subject: the sky really IS falling
well, whether it's classified as Prospect or Crown Heights, throwing a bench off a roof at someone is not only wrong, it's attempted murder. It'd be doing the world a favor if someone did to that coward what he did to the bench. In the meantime, I'm looking for a solution to keeping the little douchebag or douchebags the hell off our roof. :twisted: anyone have any suggestions? -
It sounds like someone had it in for you personally, OP. Are you sure you are telling us the whole story? I'm not saying it's right to throw a bench off a building (it's not), but are you saythat the bench came down where you had been.
Also, ever think it may have been a whacked -out homeless dude (hence the pile of crap on the roof)? -
oh yes, you're right, that's totally possible. and I agree that it definitely was personal, but I think it was more against the building and it's residents. we're buyers = we're, um, not exactly welcome. the fact that I'd just been in that spot to take out the recycling was just bad timing - I didn't mean to imply that I think anyone is after me personally. I'm only saying that it could've been anyone standing there, or anyone's dog, who could've died for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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I don't think it's anything personal or the fact that you are a "buyer" and not welcome. I think that it might be kids or as Guest suggested some homeless person. Several years ago I had a similar problem. I live on the top floor apt. so I could hear running around on the roof . So, one night I waited with the lights off to see, rather listen what was going on and to my surprise someone was coming down the fire escape. I took a bat and frighted to push the off. Anyway, I later found out from the Super a group of kids were burglarizing peoples apt. by way off the roof, down the fireescape and through an open window. For a start find out how that person or persons get access to the roof.
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The pile of excrement sounds as if it could be a homeless person that got access to your builidng or it is possible that you just have some nasty people living in your building. The bench seems as if it was someone in your buidling. I would assume that the decks that you refer to are only accesible via an apartment and not an open area that anyone can enter. You would be surprised, or maybe not, at how many people don't want to be bothered carrying things out of their apartment and disposing of them in the proper manner whether they are buyers or renters.
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First of all I'm petrified that someone did that. I stroll home with my son at this time, and it could have hit us.
As far as the second comment. I believe our building was the first condo on the block. We've had no incidents what's so ever in the three years we've lived here, nor have any of the others in the building. Yes, at first there were some long time residents who were not the friendliest, but I've made a point to say hello and be extra nice to everyone. Now, I know more of my neighbors than in our previous area.
If someone did that, know it's not the expression of 95% of the block, just a few rotten apples. -
thanks for the thoughts and support everyone. I know everyone in our building - it wasn't anyone who lives here. The bench was our property and it was someone out to destroy that - probably just some angry, asshole teenagers thinking it was funny. But that bench almost hit six young children playing in front of the next building...they were still scared when they gave us the details they witnessed (thanks, kids! The cops thank you too). so keep looking up as you stroll.
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I live in the other "new" building on the block, and saw the twisted, broken bench the other day - yeah, it was likely someone not so fond of the newcomers. Most of the people on the block are great, but there are a few asses - most of them dumb, arrogant kids.
Nor'easter - have the management company install fencing around the perimeter of the building roof, if it's not there already.
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