Robbery on St. Johns bet Nostrand and Rogers

Are these robberies happening to people in brownstones or big buildings? Cause I can definitely imagine a newcomer moving into a building getting robbed. Not that it's right, or that it should happen, but when I moved here there were some seedy characters who kept asking me and my gf if "we needed help moving our stuff in". Yes, yes come take a gander at our laptops, stereos, bikes and flat screen TVs. Not to blame the victim; they probably didn't let anyone into their place; in any case, if it was a big building, with the right "characters" I could definitely see this happening regularly.

fishblimp wrote: if it's "tis the season" now (rain, cold) i can't wait until the weather warms back up.

Doesn't the neighborhood get even crazier in the summer w/all the kids out of school w/nothing to do?

Anything near Nostrand scares me. I know that's totally irrational, but something about the number of people loitering on that street is disturbing. I doubt most of those people live in the immediate area.

Please write to the mayor’s office and police chief for more recourses for crown heights. Start a tenants association. Just because we don’t live in Soho or south of eastern parkway doesn’t we do not have equal rights. There are police on every corner down there. We only want to share the resources.
Call the police when you see a problem no matter the size. Get police reports. The reports go into a database/ Algorithm that show we need more support. Make sure you report crime no matter how small.