Neighborhood Watch

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This website might be helpful to those who haven't heard of this program:

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/crime/neighborhood_watch/neighborhood_watch_toc.html

It was pretty popular in the 1980's when the Village and the Upper West Side were changing. It might be worth looking into as a proactive means of taking some action for each other's safety. I'm not saying that it will magically fix every problem we have, but it does give concerned people a means of taking responisbility for each other's safety. It has helped a lot for other neighborhoods.

Here's another link

http://www.usaonwatch.org/

I think neigborhood watches are a win-win situation. When I was growing up not to far from PH we had a block association. We used to schedule softball games against other block associations and we got to know a lot of our neighbors from other blocks and made good friends. After a while a lot of these organizations were intermingeling (sp?) and created a phone list of names, numbers and addresses. There were "safe houses" for us kids to knock on the door in case we got in trouble on the way home from school, etc. Within a year this turned into a neighborhood block watch. From Dean and Court over to Baltic and down to 3rd Avenue there were about 300 people involved in this block watch. We had posters that we put in our window stating something similar to "This block is under constant surveillance by Block Patrol". Because we were so strong in numbers when a street light went out we had over 300 people calling to complain and it was fixed instantly. Same with potholes, etc. Sometimes it was a bitch (like when I went around the corner to smoke [a cigarete that is] and by the time I got back 4 people called my mom to tell her). We had casino block parties, organized bingo games for charity, etc. Its all about getting involved with your neighbors.

I am in the process of starting a block association on my block and Community Board 8 was very helpful in helping me set it up. Im willing to include other blocks if anyone would like

queen_of_pies wrote: security guards? "privatize" parking so only residents can park? why not just build a wall and make PH a gated community? probably not practical, is it, since the wall would enclose some who don't agree that car break-ins are the number one problem in PH.

queen_of_pies, I think people are only talking about trying to get resident parking tags when the arena is open, and I think this is a common solution, around the country, in neighborhoods where visitors flood the area. Ratner's plan includes waaaayyy too few parking spaces, IMHO, and I think it could make it impossible for residents to park in the neighborhood. Actually, I don't even own a car, and don't plan to acquire one, and I *still* think it's a good idea, because it will prevent people form using our neighborhood as a free parking lot, which I think would lead to a lot of litter and noise.

And as was mentioned above, a private security guard might not be a good idea, but a neighborhood watch would have a different, presumably friendlier, flavor.

it's hard to get to where you want to be if you don't first know where you are... what do we (the neighborhood residents) have in place already? i ask because it took me a year until i found out about my block's association. now, i'm moving a couple blocks over, and i'm back to square one. can we start a list of block associations and/or other community groups that are in place but that we may not all know about?

How was the first meeting?
Oops, just one of the many discussions that doesn't pan out.
This neighborhood is just too busy. Maybe we should sit under an olive tree and discuss this 'til our ears bleed.
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Anonymous Guest,

Yes you have been allowed back in. By no means, do you have license to once again start shitting all over the board. If you can't control your temper, go somewhere else. I have no more patience or sympathy for you, nor do I have patience for anyone who's going to flame back at you and bring the threads back to the crappy state they were in when we let you do whatever you want. As of now, if you can't toe the line and act like a grown-up, forget it. I'll be removing your posts and it'll be up to Admin as to whether to just permanently block you, because I really think you're a waste of my and everyone else's time if you continue to behave like this.

All you have to do is be respectful, constructive and on-topic. Not for five minutes, but for every time you post. If you can't do that, find some other message board to jerk off to.

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Strangely, I thought I'd never say this, but "Guest" is a little bit right. There should be some sort of posted rules. Especially since the one suggestion ("be nice and register") is somewhat ignored.

I second that