Really loud party on Franklin b/w Park and Sterling

It's my sense that the noise is actually on Franklin between Prospect and Park. I believe it comes from the upstairs area of the building above the hair dressing salon, or the Panamanian Shipping company. I've walked by and heard someone above blasting music at all ungodly hours. I would hate to think that the not0rious inaction by the 77th Precinct has a more to do with paltry resources and less to do with the lack of interest. I am inclined to think that there are large number of quality of life issues and criminal activities that thin out the precinct's ability to be effective. On a late quite night -- early morn, I hear so many sirens, or see the red-blue dance of cop cars gunning the engine on my block, I am inclined to think that they are quite busy keeping chaos at bay, and therefore they are prioritizing the calls they answer.

Check it, I have borne witness to all of below since Monday:

Monday -- Sterling between Franklin and Bedford blocked for police action
Tuesday -- Witnessed weed transactions
Wednesday - Man killed on Lincoln, and overheard counterfeit money being
peddled on Franklin Ave.
Thursday - Counterfeit money peddling on Franklin Ave.


We need a super hero.

MHA wrote: We need a super hero.

I believe a certain contemporary politician urged all of us to be the hero we are all seeking.

Hopefully this neighborhood citizen patrol will gain some steam and have some effect, but safely.

I believe a certain contemporary politician urged all of us to be the hero we are all seeking.

it could work, and it could result in innocent people getting hurt or killed

Get the landlords name and telephone from the lobby and complain directly to him and get others to do the same.

MHA wrote: I hear you Jeffrey, but that dude has the Secret Service to watch his back.

...and we don't have the cohesiveness that would be required to pull off a neighborhood patrol as organized as Shomrim.
http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?catid=23&blogid=1

Note: I simply said they were "organized". I link them simply to point out how a local community has responded to "crime in Crown Heights", not to endorse or condemm.

Earlier in the year there was a neighbor sitting in his car for at least 3 HOURS BLASTING music. It was a weeknight. I called the cops and gave them the dude's description, car make and license plate number. I didn't do this with a easy conscience because in the event that he had weed or anything else on him, I would hate to be the reason for his incarceration. The guy sat in his car unmoving all this time. I truly thought he was dead or having a stroke or something; I had walked by the car, and he sat there motionless, eyes closed. Calling 311 and making these complaints is much like climbing an icy mountain. I got some recording that there was no gurantee that there would be a speedy response; no worries, there wasn't. Finally the cops came. I peeked meekly through my blinds. This huge uber-cop knocks on the wound up window for about 10 seconds before the brother opened up the door. He steps out and asks the cop what's the deal; they tell him. He responded saying that he had no heat in his apartment and that he lives directly in front of the building and that's why he's sitting in his car -- to keep warm.
SINCE WHEN DOES MUSIC KEEP YOU WARM?!?!?!

They ask him to turn the music off, and he does, then he goes into the building beside mine.


I'll tell you what my neighbors to do when I lived in Brownsville. True story. I lived on the 8th floor of a building, and down below right across the street was a buliding where people convened outside and made noise playing music loudly, etc.. One day a neighbor got fed up and threw about 2 dozen eggs into the nightly melee. Some nights he used wet tissue when the egg buying cut into his budget. It stopped the gatherings.

I heard stories of a neighbor on my block who would open up her window and just throw water on the kids who gathered on her steps in the evenings. After repeated warnings she would just throw it out on to the offending parties. Of course they keyed her car in response, but, that's another story.

There is a neighbor on my block who did something VERY interesting. She premptively washed her steps BEFORE the kids gathered there in the evenings. What this did was to make inhospitable the steps as a gathering place -- because they were wet. Of course, they dry, but for the time that they were wet, it prevented people from sitting down... Gonna try that one myself....

^ hah, yes, classic...

A former neighbor of mine used a slingshot and frozen blueberries. It was very effective.

And no, NYPD didn't used to be more responsive to noise complaints. I think they've always been a pretty low priority.