Care to rat out drug dealers and pimps on the Brooklynian?

Amen. I live in Sunset Park, which as seen its shady past and is barely escaping its shady future, if the economy keep tanking. Cough cough... I won't bring up the suspicious activity that takes place in two shops, on on 40th and the other on 4th avenue right off the highway.. cough cough.

I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of drug pushers - at least they provide a service. I'd rather live next to a dealer than a traffic agent. Those guys are scumbags of the highest order.
The real problem is hicks from Ohio moving into the ghetto and bitching about all the crime. I imagine if they moved next to the airport they'd cry about all the planes overhead.

MeredithB wrote: There is a difference between a pusher and a dealer. Pusher's aren't cool. Dealer's just provide a service.

Shows how much I know. I thought the terms were interchangeable. Do people really still need to push drugs? You'd think the market would already be there.

if i have to move into a sketchy neighborhood because i can't afford an apartment anywhere else in the city, i understand that i don't get to complain about the action on the corner, because no one is forcing me to live in new york--but i still feel like i ought to be able to complain about something. i usually choose to complain about do-nothing hipsters and bloomberg, but maybe some of that ire is misdirected.

that said, the action on my corner actually makes me feel a little safer. the boyz on my stoop recognize me as part of the home base, and that means they won't mess with me, and if they're out they won't let anyone else mess with me. but my feelings might change if bullets start flying.

they're people who live in my building and the friends of people who live in my building, and they've stuck up for me in the past.

Flo wrote: [quote=Unrepentant Fenian]I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of drug pushers - at least they provide a service. I'd rather live next to a dealer than a traffic agent. Those guys are scumbags of the highest order.
The real problem is hicks from Ohio moving into the ghetto and bitching about all the crime. I imagine if they moved next to the airport they'd cry about all the planes overhead.

I believe the proper term for the "hicks" from Ohio is Buckeyes. They are not be confused with the Okies, who are currently headed to California, not NYC, in search of gold or maybe oranges with which to fill their dust bowls in their broken down jalopies.

Flo you crack me up!

I'd like to report Papi Chulo. He's pimping midget whores in our basement midget pleasure palace. [-X It's shameful and I'm not even getting a cut of the action.

Meredith, the help wanteds are on a different page.

Subject: ratting out

Dear me, sounds like you haven't been in the nabe long if you prefer a drug dealer neighbor to a traffic agent.
Back in the day, I lived across the street from a relatively active weed dealer. Thursday evenings the traffic picked up & Friday & Saturday evenings/nights/early hours that cute little side street was just packed with cars making quick pick-ups from the ground floor apartment. Our block eventually met with Community Affairs from the 72nd & set up very discreet observers to get license plate numbers. Other work was done by volunteers to find out the idenntity of the building owner. Since the "weedman" turned out to be a relative of the building owner, indirect pressure had to be brought on both to protect the block residents. The "don't snitch rule" is not new.
I'll take a traffic agent neighbor any day!
Salix in the Sunset

Unrepentant Fenian wrote: I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of drug pushers - at least they provide a service. I'd rather live next to a dealer than a traffic agent. Those guys are scumbags of the highest order.
The real problem is hicks from Ohio moving into the ghetto and bitching about all the crime. I imagine if they moved next to the airport they'd cry about all the planes overhead.